[Eric Pode of Croydon]

he was able to get enough votes from politically-disinterested, gainfully employed voters

I agree, and there are two things which helped make that happen.

(1) - Bernanke's relentless pump priming has significantly softened the effect of Obama's economy killing policies. The GOP has for all practical purposes been silent on this issue. Except for Ron Paul.

(2)Mitt Romney, his personal integrity notwithstanding, is a man of the paper-trading, deal-cutting economy rather than the build things, deliver goods economy. And working class voters who (rightly IMO) saw Wall Street as a major culprit in the last decade's fiscal follies were in no mood to let a Wall Streeter run the company. The Street is no friend, and no ally, to limited-government conservatives.

[Alberta's Child]

Good points. The irony is that Obama is more of a “Wall Street Insider” than anyone will ever want to admit.