President Barack Obama points at supporters as First Lady Michelle Obama gives the thumbs-up, flanked by Vice-President Joe Biden and Second Lady Jill Biden following Obama’s speech early Wednesday morning (November 6) in Chicago, Illinois.
President Barack Obama swept to re-election Tuesday, forging history
again by transcending a slow economic recovery and the high unemployment
which haunted his first term to beat Republican Mitt Romney.
Below is both President Obama’s victory speech and Mitt Romney’s concession speech.
