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The presidential election of 2012 focused on the key domestic issues of economic recovery and job creation following the global financial crisis of 2008, as well as taxation and the federal deficit. While President Barack Obama, the incumbent candidate, won the Democratic presidential nomination with little opposition, a number of high-profile candidates vied for the Republican nomination during the primary elections. Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, ultimately clinched the Republican nomination, although he and his running mate, Paul Ryan, would ultimately lose the popular vote and the Electoral College.