Barack Obama, shown leaving with his wife, Michelle, after his victory speech Tuesday in Chicago, will become president at a time of huge budget deficits, a deep recession, and two wars.
(Gary Hershorn/Reuters)
USING THE MANDATE
For Obama, high expectations and high hurdles
Agenda to take shape in time of great crisis
Barack Obama, shown leaving with his wife, Michelle, after his victory speech Tuesday in Chicago, will become president at a time of huge budget deficits, a deep recession, and two wars.
(Gary Hershorn/Reuters)
WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama takes office in January, propelled by the greatest percentage of the popular vote by a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, his party has high hopes that it has a mandate to push through the ambitious agenda Obama laid out in his campaign. (Full article: 978 words)
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