The outcome may reflect the economy’s slight improvement at election time (as happened when Franklin Roosevelt defeated the Republican Alf Landon in 1936, despite the continuing Great Depression). But Obama’s victory might also be a testament to most US voters’ basic sense of economic reality.
然而巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）依然成功连任了。这个结果也许反映了经济在选举期间的轻微改善，正如1936年大萧条持续期间富兰克林·罗斯福（Franklin Roosevelt）击败来自共和党的阿夫尔·兰登（Alf Landon）时所发生的情况那样。但奥巴马的胜利或许也证实了大部分美国选民对经济现实的基本观感。