Students react as they watch election returns come in inside the Kennedy Forum at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Barack Obama, the post-partisan candidate of hope who became the first black U.S. president, won re-election today by overcoming four years of economic discontent with a mix of political populism and electoral math. Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg via Getty Images