Why Barack Obama won, what can be his legacy

Barack Obama's presidential victory is forcing America to rethink one of its most overused political cliches: it's the economy, stupid. Coined by the political campaign managers of Bill Clinton, that line has since defined the most important issue in every election. Now what many American commentators are asking is, if the economy is the killer issue, how did Barack Obama survive in office as the first president since the Great Depression to end his first term with unemployment as high as 8%?

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