Obama's re-election road: Hope and a hard climb

WASHINGTON — People remember the hope and the history. For him or against him, they picture candidate Barack Obama as the one who stood on stage in a football stadium in Denver and accepted the Democratic presidential nomination by declaring "It's time for us to change America."

Forgotten, it seems, is what Obama said when he actually won.

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

First Lady Michelle Obama appears at the podium Monday for a camera test as head stage manager David Cove instructs on the stage at the Democratic National Convention inside Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C...

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