In a nutshell:Obama won because of 4 reasons basically.
http://www.factandmyth.com/why-obama...-did-obama-win Originally Posted by SassySue
1. Eight years of Bush and Dick Cheney was eight years too much.
2. Sarah Palin was an airhead and destroyed McCain's ticket.
3. No one read Mitts 59 point plan to fix the economy (Including IBH who thought it was conjecture and did not exist)
4. This is from the link and very true. The trickle down theory does not work.
from the link:
Reaganomics has failed. Nothing has trickled down on the lower/middle income earners other than rising health care and tuition costs. The jig is up. The only people left babbling on about “class warfare” are the talking heads that a dwindling voting block continues to listen to.