"To everyone that voted, I want you to know that I heard you. To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you too. All of us have to give more Americans a reason to feel like the ground is stable beneath their feet, that the future is secure, there's a path for young people to succeed, and folks in Washington are concerned about them. So I plan on spending every moment of the next two plus years doing my job the best I can to keep this country safe and make sure more Americans share in its prosperity."
That quote is odd. What message can he infer from people that don't vote, don't voice their opinion? Imagine if 2/3 of voters, which I think we can safely assume are apathetic to who gets into office, voted for a 3rd party candidate in their district. That would have been something. Reminds me of this video.
That apathy is primarily taken as a denouncement of the system though. That is what Obama is responding to: the dissatisfaction or indifference towards our current government. He's promising to do well these next two years as a way to give non-voters a reason to participate in the next election. I would suppose he's gambling on them being democrats.