Barack Obama's second term: Now, hug a Republican

This article was a follow up to the presidential election and Obama's victory over Romney.  The article explained that, though Obama's policies have been seen as unpopular by some over the past four years, he got very lucky in the last few weeks of the election.  The economy boosted just a teeny bit but enough to give Obama something to go on.  However, I thought it was good that the article said that, if Obama wants to have a more successful second term, he must work with the republicans in the senate and in congress.  I thought this was an excellent point because I have always thought that, for the country to be successful, both parties need to compromise and work together so as to have a balanced set of ideals and to have unbiased policies. I liked that the article mentioned this fact because I think too often politicians get caught up in the ideas of their own platform and the ideas of their party that they forget that the other party has valuable ideas that can help the country too.  Hopefully Obama takes this advice because everything works better when people work together and everyone's opinions can be heard, which is what America's supposed to be all about, right?