Indian Express, Agencies, Washington: With some recent opinion polls
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applause from the audience of "four more years" yesterday. Riding on a nationwide wave, in November 2008, Obama created history by becoming the first African American to win presidential elections. On January 20, 2009, he was sworn-in as the first non-white President of the United States. "The fact that he is confident that the American people believe or will believe when he presents his case that his vision for where we need to go to grow the economy, where we need to go to create jobs, where we need to go to further secure America's national security interests is the right vision -- and that debate will be engaged and that theory will be tested in November," the White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters here in a press conference. "But he is confident, although he is certainly aware that when you're in the kind of economic environment that we've been in for the past three-plus years that this will be invariably a very competitive election," he said responding to questions. "He intends to make his case to make clear what his vision is, to explain the decisions that he's made and the policies that he's put into place, and why he thinks they were the right ones to get this economy into a situation where instead of hemorrhaging jobs at 775,000 per month, it's been growing steadily," the US official said. Source: Indian Express

