Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2012. The Center for American Progress today released an analysis, titled “The Return of the Obama Coalition,” detailing how a potent mix of demographics, a steadily improving economy, a clear rejection of the GOP’s extreme conservatism, and an embrace of pragmatic progressive policies on social and economic issues propelled the president and his party to victory. As a result, President Barack Obama becomes the first Democrat since Franklin Delano Roosevelt—and the only president since Ronald Reagan—to win two consecutive elections with more than 50 percent of the popular vote. Although the election was closely contested, President Obama successfully solidified his historic progressive coalition from 2008 and held on to all the states he won that year with the exception of conservative-leaning Indiana and North Carolina. After the electoral disaster that Democrats suffered in 2010 at the congressional level, the party expanded its majority in the Senate with significant wins in Massachusetts, Virginia, Missouri, Wisconsin, and even Indiana.
