Obama Wins a Second Term

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204349404578101520589031776.html?KEYWORDS=taxes His victory makes Mr. Obama the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 to succeed with a higher unemployment rate on Election Day than on his inauguration day four years earlier. U.S. unemployment now stands at 7.9%, compared with 7.8% when Mr. Obama took office.