With President Obama winning a second term, do you think there will be more cooperation and compromise between the Democrats and Republicans in Washington?

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• bubba posted at 3:31 pm on Sun, Nov 11, 2012.

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  jataga5000...Well said. After the election of 2014 the Tea Party Republicans that swore alligence to Grover Norquist, instead of the American people will be merely a bad memory and lesson learned that we can't allow the Koch Bros. et al to drain this country dry as they have. The last two years of Obama's accomplishments, with the help of a cooperative Congress will set this country right.

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• jataga5000 posted at 7:47 pm on Sat, Nov 10, 2012.

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  Az Willie I agree. People ( Republicans ) seem to forget that we live in a democracy. We had elections, they lost but still want control. Their definition of Obamas failure is having one side obstruct instead of compromising to govern for the good of the country and being ok with it. Pathetic but times are changing. The electorate has grown weary of the Tea Party already and don't think they aren't paying close attention to politicians pining for the 1%. As witnessed by the number of women elected to Congress, the ouster of some of the most radical TPers in red states and the rejection of Romney/Rove, this nation is mandating change. It wasn't just Democrats that re-elected Obama but Independents and some Republicans too. The Republicans were swept out in 2006. In 2014 it will happen again but this time they will be replaced by reasonable people willing to compromise. Before anyone start responding with Fox News talking points I HOPE THAT YOU HAVE FIGURED OUT BY NOW that Fox had been lying all along about knowing who was winning the election. It was never as close as they claimed. Just go back and review the polling. It sure helped their ratings though.

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• Arizona Willie posted at 8:48 am on Sat, Nov 10, 2012.

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  Rich, why is it that your definition of " compromise " is for Democrats to yield and give Republicans everything they want?
  Obama has done NOTHING but attempt to compromise with the Republicans and they have done nothing but spit on everything he does.
  Obama took single payer health care off the table before they even began negotiations.Bohner said that he " got 98% of everything I wanted " in his negotiations over health care with Obama. That is FAR MORE than compromise -- that was SURRENDER.
  

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• Rich posted at 7:14 pm on Thu, Nov 8, 2012.

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  Unless mana falls somewhere, there is not much hope for improvement. Obama is failing, slowly enough to be re-elected as the incumbent. As he continues to fail, it will take about a year (with mid-terms in the air) for enough Democrats to start distancing themselves from him to break a gridlock. As this starts to happen you will begin to see some compromise. Unless Obama gets real lucky and changes course a bit, the Democrats will be toast, and enough of them will back off his policies to survive to create some bi-partisan policies. Until then, just remember the pessimist is never disappointed.

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• Bluepoet posted at 3:32 pm on Thu, Nov 8, 2012.

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  I think most of us would like to see cooperation, instead of obstinance, action, instead of gridlock. I don't see it happening, though, as everyone also voted to keep things just like they already were, for the most part. To me, that's a mandate for, "Get your act together, Washington", but there's little motivation to change, for the powers that be, so they will likely see it as a mandate for "stay the course", not matter the political leanings...

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• Accuracy posted at 7:37 am on Thu, Nov 8, 2012.

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  Democrat voters gave President Obama another four years and all voters also elected a divided Congress. Democrats retained control of the Senate while Republicans renewed their majority in the House of Representatives.

  Obama will approach a more divided Congress during his second term . . . As the Obama Administration facing massive Federal lawsuits.
  

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