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OK, you want to know what the meaning of “it” is, right?

Actually, there are a lot of Its. When it comes to 2012, as opposed to 2010, voters will be judging Barack Obama on which parts of his program worked and which didn’t. Not unusual for elections, and especially when you have a nearly complete meltdown of the economy when taking office.

The elections of 2010 were clearly too soon for people to judge â€" with high unemployment, corporations parking over $2 trillion on the sidelines, hesitant and scared investors not putting money into the economy and consumers equally fearful of overspending. Building back confidence from the disaster of 2008 takes time â€" and the actions taken by President Obama and the Democratic Congress were not apparent to anxious and impatient voters who were hurting last November.

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