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8A Daily News – Thursday, November 8, 2012 Obama heads back to White House in triumph WASHINGTON (AP) — One day after his sur- prisingly comfortable re- election, a triumphant President Barack Obama headed back to the White House and divided gov- ernment on Wednesday with little time left for a compromise with Repub- licans to avert spending cuts and tax increases that threaten a new recession. The president also is looking ahead to top-level personnel changes in a second term, involving three powerful Cabinet portfolios at a minimum. Republicans headed into a season of potential- ly painful reflection after retaining control of the House but losing the pres- idency and falling deeper into the Senate minority. One major topic: the changing face of Ameri- ca. ''We've got to deal with the issue of immigra- tion through good policy. What is the right policy if we want economic growth in America as it relates to immigration?'' said for- mer Republican Party Chairman Haley Barbour. Obama drew support from about 70 percent of all Hispanics, far outpacing Republican challenger Mitt Romney. There was little time to celebrate for the winners, with a postelection ses- sion of Congress sched- uled to convene next Tuesday. By common agreement, the main order of business is the search for a compromise to keep the economy from falling off a so-called ''fiscal cliff.'' Anight of decision leaves nation with a clear Obama win WASHINGTON (AP) — The election laid bare a dual — and dueling — nation, politically speak- ing, jaggedly split down the middle on the presi- dency and torn over much else. It seems you can please only half of the people nearly all of the time. of the day. Democracy doesn't care if you win big, only that you win. Tuesday was a day of decision as firmly as if Obama had run away with the race. Democrats are ebullient and, after a campaign notable for its raw smack- downs, words of concilia- tion are coming from leaders on both sides, starting with the plea from defeated Republican rival Mitt Romney that his crestfallen supporters pray for the president. But after the most ide- ologically polarized elec- tion in years, Obama's assertion Wednesday morning that America is ''more than a collection of red states and blue states'' was more of an aspiration than a snapshot of where the country stands. ''It's going to take a while for this thing to heal,'' said Ron Bella, 59, a Cincinnati lawyer who lives in Alexandria, Ky. He is relieved Obama won, but some of his co- workers are in a ''sour mood'' about it. New storm bears down on battered New York NEW YORK (AP) — A nor'easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday, threatening to swamp homes all over again, plunge neighborhoods back into darkness and inflict more misery on tens of thousands of peo- ple still reeling from Superstorm Sandy. Under ordinary cir- cumstances, a storm of this sort wouldn't be a big deal, but large swaths of the landscape were still an open wound, with many of Sandy's victims still mucking out their homes and cars and shiv- ering in the deepening cold. Americans retained the fractious balance of power in re-electing Pres- ident Barack Obama, a Republican House and a Democratic Senate, alto- gether serving as guaran- tors of the gridlock that voters say they despise. 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Turkey said NATO mem- bers — including the United States — have dis- cussed using Patriot mis- siles along the Syrian bor- der. It was unclear whether the purpose was to protect a safe zone inside Syria or to protect Turkey from Syrian regime attacks. Also Wednesday, tariffs on Chinese solar companies. al Trade Commission voted unanimously that Chinese companies have materially injured U.S. manufacturers, affirm- ing its 2011 vote that launched a yearlong inquiry into low-cost Chinese products that U.S manufacturers blame for putting them on the brink of collapse. Chinese companies The U.S. Internation- The announcements come as U.S. allies appear to be anticipating a new, bolder approach from Obama now that he has won a second term. ''With the re-election of Obama, what you have is a strong confidence on the British side that the U.S. administration will be engaged more on Syria from the get-go,'' said Shashank Joshi, an ana- lyst at London's Royal United Services Institute, a security think tank. It remains to be seen, however, if the U.S. plans to change course in any significant way. 7.4 quake hits Guatemala SAN MARCOS, Guatemala (AP) — A 7.4- magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Guatemala on Wednesday, ravaging a small state near the Mexi- can border, where three people were confirmed dead and as many as 100 missing, according to pre- liminary reports from the country's president. The mountain village of San Marcos, some 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the epicenter, suf- fered much of the damage with some 30 homes col- lapsing in its center. Hun- dreds of frightened vil- lagers were on the streets, one of which was cracked open by the temblor, the strongest to hit Guatemala since a deadly 1976 quake that killed 23,000. President Otto Perez Molina updated the casu- alties throughout the day, earlier reporting as many as 15 dead and saying that three were confirmed by mid-afternoon. He said 100 more people were missing. Obama wins the way his campaign More than 300 people, including firemen, police- men and villagers, worked at a sand extrac- tion site to rescue seven people reported buried alive, including a 6-year- old boy that had accompa- nied his grandfather to work. ''I want to see Giovan- ni, I want to see Giovan- ni,'' the boy's mother, Francisca Ramirez franti- cally cried. ''He's not dead. Get him out.'' predicted CHICAGO (AP) — In the end, President Barack Obama won re-election exactly the way his cam- paign had predicted: run- ning up big margins with women and minorities, mobilizing a sophisticat- ed registration and get- out-the-vote operation, and focusing narrowly on the battleground states that would determine the election. It wasn't always excit- ing, and it was hardly transformational. But it worked. ''The Obama cam- paign laid out its plan, told everyone what they were doing and execut- ed,'' said Anita Dunn, a former Obama White House official who advised the campaign through the fall. ''No one should be surprised.'' Still, there were detours along the way, most notably Obama's dismal performance in the first debate, which breathed new life into Republican challenger Mitt Romney's campaign. The deadly attack on a U.S. Consulate in Beng- hazi, Libya, thrust foreign policy into the spotlight and exposed Obama to a flurry of GOP criticism of his leadership. 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Exit polls also backed up the Democrat- ic team's assertions that the coalition of young people and minorities who supported Obama in 2008 would still vote in big numbers this time around. In a divided GOP, cloudy future ahead BOSTON (AP) — Mitt Romney spent the past six years running for president. After his loss to President Barack Obama, he'll have to chart a different course. His initial plan: spend time with his family. He has five sons and 18 grandchildren, with a 19th on the way. ''I don't look at post- election to be a time of regrouping. Instead it's a time of forward focus,'' Romney told reporters aboard his plane Tuesday evening as he returned to Boston after the final campaign stop of his political career. ''I have, of course, a family and life important to me, win or lose.'' The most visible member of that family — wife Ann Romney — says neither she nor her husband will seek polit- ical office again. ''Absolutely he will not run again,'' she told the hosts of ABC's ''The View'' in October when asked if a loss would mean the end of Romney's political career. ''Nor will I.'' Federal trade panel finds Chinese solar panels harming US industry WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal trade panel found China responsible Wednesday for harming the U.S. solar panel industry, clearing the final hurdle for U.S. attempts to impose steep that export billions of dollars of solar products to the U.S. each year will face tariffs of up to nearly 250 percent. The Obama administration imposed those tariffs in October after finding that China's government is subsidizing compa- nies that are flooding the U.S. market with low-cost products — a tactic known as ''dump- ing.'' Wednesday's vote means that those tariffs, along with anti-subsidy fees of up to 16 percent, will stand. The stiff penalties affirmed Wednesday will be good for five years. 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