Jim Lakely, a co-director at the conservative Heartland Institute in Chicago, said voters "have chosen the empowerment of government over the liberty of the individual and free markets."
Obama faces a more modest second term →
"I believe we'll find that such a profound rejection of the benefits of free enterprise, economic freedom and personal liberty will not bring us to the promised utopia," Mr. Lakely said. "It will bring us only the misery we have experienced since 2009. And Americans have now made it harder than ever to reverse."
Obama faces a more modest second term →
