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Could Obama survive a referendum election?
May 07, 2012
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crisis and two wars under way. However, she added that he won the 2008 election by 9.5 million votes, was "enormously popular," and had the benefit of Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate.

He had "the wind at his back," she said. "He could do anything, plus an air of crisis to push things forward. Some people look at what he did and say, 'He didn't do the right thing. Didn't help enough.'"

Former Democratic Sen. Bill Bradley noted that Mr. Obama acted "very decisively" on the challenges before him, such as the wars and the recession.
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