9 takeaways from 2012 election: By Politico Tuesday, November 06, 2012 Election Day is final...

9 takeaways from 2012 election

9 takeaways from 2012 election: By Politico Tuesday, November 06, 2012 Election Day is final...

By Politico NewJersey.Com Tuesday, November 06, 2012 Election Day is finally here. And even though neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney has been declared a winner yet, there are some things that will still hold true no matter which candidate wins the White House tonight — or in the wee hours of the morning. Here are POLITICO’s nine takeaways from the 2012 campaign: 1. Luck matters — a lot Obama has assembled some of the best field operatives around. His team has run the gauntlet before, prepared a ground game for five years, had a basic playbook for the 2012 cycle and (mostly) stuck to it. Obama’s natural skills as a politician are far better than Romney’s. The auto bailout helped Obama maintain what has been a small but consistent polling lead in critical states like Ohio. And yet a little bit of luck goes an awfully long way. For all his troubles throughout his term, Oba...

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