The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies

by Jonathan Alter,
The Florida Courier, June 28, 2013

On Election Night 2012, Barack Obama was apparently happier than he had been four years earlier. He believed that the stakes were higher with Mitt Romney as his opponent than with John McCain. And the outcome meant more to him, he told colleagues, because the public had made an informed judgment of him and his accomplishments as president.