President Obama's re-election in 2012 frames this Al Jazeera report on a United States that looks, by its own telling, as divided as at any point since the Civil War. The film moves through the machinery of the campaign: rallies, party conventions, saturation television advertising, and the political satire and social media chatter that shaped how voters saw both candidates. Its real interest is the argument over what the federal government is for, tracing that fight back decades before Obama ever took office. It picks up Mitt Romney's leaked remark about the 47 percent and the broader rhetoric of the 1 percent versus the 99 percent, using both to ask whose interests government actually serves. Records and rhetoric are set side by side, and the film finds more overlap between the two campaigns than either side's messaging admitted. It closes on the harder question left after the vote is counted: whether a divided Congress and a polarized public leave room for anything but gridlock over the next four years.