Which provides the best explanation for the struggles experienced by president obama in his 2012 reelection bid?

Barack Obama, the country’s formerly scandal-free president, ran in 2012 with Vice President Joe Biden. He ran against Mitt Romney who has Paul Ryan as running mate. Obama faced a determined Republican candidates with strong conservative base. Obama’s campaign captured popular vote by using social media and online channels, the first in history.

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the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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