But at the end of the day, the task for Mr. Obama may well transcend the demographics or voting blocs that are the brick and mortar of the traditional American campaign.
Reaction to early footage from The Good Dinosaur suggests it might well transcend its creative turbulence to supply iconic Pixar moments to rank with the balloon sequence in Up and the transfer of toys in Toy Story 3. It features on several Best Animated Feature Oscar shortlist predictions and it further benefits from dinosaurs being "hot" thanks to last summer's Jurassic World.
Backgammon may well transcend language, culture and age; seen from a design context, it can also be a work of art, a showcase of traditional skills and techniques, and a positive story of hope that we can all play a part in.
But you did well to transcend your resentment.
Banana Republic: 08442 480 048; www.bananarepublic.eu Jigsaw Definitely one of those top-end high street chains that does classic chic so well it transcends the generations.
Hugh: So utterly well matched, it transcends even "so well-matched it's too well-matched" status.
For me, Clemente, even with all his warts, transcended, well, everything.
With a cast including Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie and Viola Davis, the warsploitation-riffing, bad guy romp looks well set to transcend its relative obscurity.
Then Amir Johnson of the Toronto Raptors produced his own version of the Harlem Shake, and mostly thanks to a deadpan performance from coach Dwane Casey, well, the results transcend the genre (nice try 2013 All-Star Game).
Mr. Woodward writes that "the debt-limit crisis was a time of peril for the United States, its economy and its place in the global financial order" and that "neither President Obama nor Speaker Boehner handled it particularly well," unable to transcend "their fixed partisan convictions and dogmas".
Tip your hat to Charlie Smalls whose original 1975 score and its sentiment hold up very well and have transcended time beautifully.
