Since Obama campaigned, as you say, and the voters voted for him, it is obvious the electorate wants to raise taxes on the rich, who essentially ran a government that borrowed money to give themselves cash. That's the problem the GOP has, they claim to be tax and spend cutters, when in practice, they are just tax cutters. If they had had the guts to really cut spending to get revenues in line with tax cuts, they'd still be in office. They didn't. They ain't.