US/2012 Presidential election

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Event.png US/2012 Presidential election (US Presidential Election) Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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Date6 November 2012
DescriptionBarack Obama was re-elected

The US/2012 Presidential election saw Barack Obama be re-elected as President of the United States of America.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Obama administration used the Internal Revenue Service to help the reelection. The IRS openly championed Democrat causes by, for example, putting on special conferences to show black churches how to express political opinions without losing their tax-exempt status, all the while stonewalling [[tea party] groups with questions ranging from queries about religion to personal relationships.[1] James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal wrote that "Barack Obama’s reelection deserves to be listed with an asterisk in the record books. We know only that he did win with the help of a corrupt IRS. And if indeed the election was stolen, many in the media were complicit in its theft."[2]

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