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My quick guess at what this article is really about (and its not about the content in the article):

1) Obama won the election in 2012 -- and he didn't do it through massive voter fraud.
2) Obama won the election in 2012 -- and he didn't do it through massive infusions of illegal cash from here and abroad.
3) Obama won the election in 2012 -- and he didn't do it because the Media gave him major support.
4) Obama won the election in 2012 -- and he didn't do it because the Media worked to trash his opponents.
5) Obama won the election in 2012 -- and covering up Benghazi had nothing to do with it.

6) Obama won the election in 2012 because he made good use of technology.

Yeah. That's the ticket.
I say this is about Benghazi and the realization is that Obama is not the person voters think he is. If people have their eyes opened through Benghazi and start asking questions, they may realize that he has absolutely no business being in the White House. Gotta start spinnign the other way and demonstrate that Obama is cool, and modern, and awesome, and really earned his post because he's basically a super hero.

I'm sorry to say this, but the Benghazi story didn't get traction during the election and it will not get traction now. Why? Because, for one, the media will not put it front and center. They are more willing to show that the guy who helped rescue those three kidnapped women used to be a wife molester than to strive and get to the bottom of several key scandals that have oscillated around this administration. Secondly, and this is probably more important, outside political forums and other politically-minded groupings (both Conservative leaning and Liberal leaning), the average American adult simply doesn't care that several American citizens were killed in a foreign land with no assistance forthcoming from their government. They simply do not. They didn't care during the elections - even with the media whitewash it is not as if the story was totally absent, yet outside political fora there was simply no juice for it - and it will be difficult to make them care now.

This is not about Benghazi. I do not know what it is about, but I know it is not about Benghazi. Why? Because some months ago someone who had several key issues, any of which would have hobbled ANY other person running for the presidency, waltzed through it. Did Obama win due to clever management of his election machinery, bungling by the Romney camp, or massive voter fraud as you said? Maybe all of the above? It doesn't matter, because even if it was uber-election fraud to the tenth degree, there was no peep from the Democrats (as expected), there was no peep from the Republicans (apart from Romney's kid saying his father really didn't want to run), no peep from the media (as expected), and as seen, nothing from the voting public ...outside, as usual, political forums. If the Republicans are not willing to say anything - whether it is about Benghazi or voter fraud - what impact is expected from the public at large, especially considering the media support Obama has? He could eat a dog live and it still wouldn't register (didn't he say he ate a dog once or am I dreaming that up?)

I am not being a pessimist. Just being realist, and also considering that in the ramp up to the election there were all these stories on FR of how there is some October type surprise just waiting. Remember the Trump story?

I'd say the biggest problems are the docile nature of the Republicans (not a word about the birth certificate, about voter fraud, about Benghazi, or a number of other issues), and the nonchalance of the voting public. Those two issues are the key ones. The media not doing its job in a fair manner is only an accelerating factor ...a very bad thing, but only making something that is already really bad far worse.

Anyways, just my US$0.02. Worth the same as a warm jug of spit, but I think it is the real issue at play here.

I also believe people are focusing on the wrong issues ....focusing on dying leaves ....and ignoring the sick root at the heart of the matter. Yes, the media trashed his opponent. Yes, the media gave him major support. Yes, there was evidence of irregularities. Yes, there was cash from unknown sources. Yes, the government covered up Benghazi. Yes, Obama made good use of technology (he really did ...his IT system, compared to the Orca system Romney tried to use, was by far much better ...like comparing a dinghy with the Enterprise from Star Trek). However ...there are deeper issues at play. Even more than the biased media. I've mentioned two - Republicans who cannot even punch their way out of a wet paper bag, and a voting public that is by far apathetic. As long as those two exist, then the Liberals win ...even if a Republican becomes president. Why? Because the country continues to shift left. Think of it ...a current Republican politician today is more liberal than the typical Democrat politician from the early 1970s. Already gay marriage is getting acceptable in the public mindset. Compare what is on TV today and what would have been on TV in the mid 1990s.

Anyways, as I said my US$0.02.