Barack Obama

Minorities around the country stood strong in the face of efforts to suppress their votes. Now that the election is over, what will happen to that energy and force?

Latino voters turned out in record numbers, accounting for 10 percent of the electorate, and exit polls show Obama won 71 percent of the Latino vote.

Now re-elected, Obama must make some changes to his Cabinet, starting with replacing Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State.

Journalist John Nichols argues that the 2012 election provided not just a mandate for the Obama administration and the Democrats, but for progressive policies.

Post Election Day analysis by Thom Hartmann.

Now that Obama has been re-elected, he can begin the process to change the economic conversation so that the government can invest in people and not corporations.

Over the past four years the Obama administration has presided over a technological revolution in defense planning, moving the nation's defenses to cyberwarfare and the full-scale weaponization of space.

Big banks continue to push Obama to adopt self-destructive austerity programs that would unravel the national safety net of Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.