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US Election 2012: UK newspaper reaction to Obama victory
In what turned out to be a global media event, most of the main UK newspapers ran online blogs covering every minute of the tightly-contested election eventually won by Obama.
As President Obama toasted a second term in the White House last night, the UK media reacted quickly to his re-election, with many newspapers focussing on his promise that 'the best is yet to come'.
In what turned out to be a global media event, most of the main UK newspapers ran online blogs covering every minute of the tightly-contested election eventually won by Obama.
The Sun, Britain's best-selling newspaper, heralded the Democrat's victory with the headline, 'Barack Four More' on their website.
Trevor Kavanagh, the paper's associate editor, described Obama in an editorial column as 'the nearest thing to a Leftie in US politics'.
Kavanagh went on to argue that "there will be relief in Downing Street he is back in the White House".
He adds: "Tories traditionally sympathise with Republican leaders. But President Obama is their kind of politician."
But not everyone in Cabinet is a fan. Many Tories would love to have seen the back of the most socialist President in US history.
"They would like to have welcomed a Republican leader with the sort of debt-cutting programme they want for Britain."
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MailOnline, the website of the Daily Mail newspaper, headlined their story on the election result with, 'Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours! Victorious Obama celebrates four more years and promises America 'the best is yet to come'', in reference to the Stevie Wonder song which blared out before Obama's victory speech in Chicago.
A comment piece on the paper's site said the race to the White House 'shone a rare spotlight onto the real America'.
The Mail said: "Nothing focuses a spotlight onto the less heralded corners of America than its presidential jamboree."
The Daily Telegraph's US editor said Obama's win was a 'hard-scrabble victory'.
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He added: "(The result was) not a grand endorsement of Mr Obama’s first term, but a begrudging recognition that the last four years have been hard on everyone.
"Contrary to what Mr Obama proclaimed in 2008, there never were any miracle cures."
