What's next for Obama as power shifts? #tellusatoday

The election of a GOP majority in the Senate prompted a discussion about what President Obama can accomplish in the next two years. We asked our followers what Obama's priorities should be. Comments from Twitter and Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

Be humble. Find middle ground. Compromise, compromise, compromise.

— @DiogenesTub

President Obama should focus more on the economy.

— @Siawnk

The president should defend the Affordable Care Act against all GOP attacks with his veto powers.

— @KSTech1

He should try to get support from adversaries. If they don't yield, he should go ahead using executive powers.

— @vasanji

He should use executive action to enact immigration reform.

— @EusebiaAq

Obama should understand that the people rejected his policies. Don't do an executive order on amnesty.

— @IndyinTX31

He needs to focus on our domestic problems that cannot be ignored any longer.

— @danm414

President Obama won two elections in electoral landslides. He still has a mandate and one-third of the government. He owes it to his constituents to stick by the principles he campaigned on. He can and should compromise, but he should not cave. If that means using the veto, which the Constitution provided for good reason, he should do it.

— Eileen Emmi Jones

As a Republican voter, my fear is that House Speaker John Boehner and Sen. Mitch McConnell, expected to be the majority leader, will have to waste a lot of time keeping Tea Party extremists in check. The Republicans now have the power to move this country along, but only if they have the wit to use it.

— Rick Giles

As a nation, we need to strap ourselves in because the next two years are going to be very interesting.

With the presidential election around the corner, everything will be about which party can make the other look worse. Tighten your seat belts.

— Larry DeGraw

Letter to the editor:

The voters have spoken. They want leaders who represent and fight for ordinary Americans, not for corporations or for people in faraway lands where we have little national interest. They also want true leaders who will work with politicians from all parties, transcending partisanship, to resolve the critical problems affecting our nation ("How did pollsters miss GOP tsunami?" News, Thursday).

It is high time for politicians from all parties to take notice. Americans are really fed up with business and politics as usual.

Michael Pravica; Henderson, Nev.

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