Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 4 ga Afrilu, 2011, Obama ya sanar da cewa zai sake neman sake zaben a shekarar 2012. Bai fuskanci manyan abokan hamayya ba don zaben fidda gwani na jam'iyyar Democrat. Abokin hamayyarsa na Republican shi ne Mitt Romney, tsohon gwamnan Massachusetts. Romney ya yi kira da a rage haraji, rage kashe kudade, da kara yawan kashe kudaden tsaro, da kuma soke Obamacare (duk da cewa ya dogara ne akan shirin kiwon lafiya na Massachusetts da aka bunkasa a karkashin Romney). Kungiyar yakin neman zaben Obama ta kasance ne a Chicago kuma ta gudanar da ita da tsoffin ma'aikatan fadar White House da kuma mambobin kungiyar yakin neman zaben 2008
Ka yi haƙuri. Obama ya sake lashe zaben tare da kuri'u 332 (a cikin jimillar kuri'u 538) da kuma kashi 51.1% na kuri'un jama'a, wanda ya sa ya zama mutum na farko tun lokacin da Dwight Eisenhower ya lashe kashi 51 cikin dari na kuri'un sau biyu. Dangane da kuri'un fitarwa, Obama ya lashe mafi yawan kuri'un daga mata, baƙi, Hispanics, Asians, mutane a ƙarƙashin 45, mutanen da ke samun ƙasa da $ 50,000 a shekara, mutanen da ke zaune a manyan biranen ko matsakaitan birane, masu sassaucin ra'ayi, masu matsakaici, marasa aure, 'yan luwadi, da kuma mutanen da ba su da ilimin kwaleji, wasu ilimin kwaleji, ko digiri na biyu. Baya ga nasarar zaben shugaban kasa, 'yan Democrat sun kuma karbi kujeru a duka majalisun majalisa, amma' yan Republican sun ci gaba da iko da majalisar.