ABSTRACT
On the day of Barack Obama’s victory in the 2012 presidential election, Slate’s John Dickerson wrote:
What was ratified on election night was the benefit of a permanent campaign and the talent of the Obama team . . . His campaign team was so formidable that it made up for all the inadequacies, vulnerabilities, and missteps (remember that first debate?) of a weak incumbent president in a sputtering economy.
