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Article updated: 12/24/2012 10:26 PM

Obama has big second term to-do list to tackle

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This Dec. 16, 2012 file photo shows President Barack Obama pausing during a speech at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, at Newtown High School in Newtown, Conn. Obama faces a long list of problems he must address in his second term.

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In the coming months, President Obama will have to decide where to be ambitious, where to be cautious, and where to buy time. Some of the big issues awaiting the president's decisions are immigration, gun control and the need for a tenable balance between taxes, spending and borrowing. "I see Obama as almost uniquely handcuffed by circumstances," said John Baick of Western New England University.
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