Obama Wins Romney Says NO Hold on, I’m not convinced
The Romney Camp said it was going to be a long night. Now that The president is been deemed the winner and it could be a lot when the rest of the states come in. Well Mr. Obama will be celebrating and Romney and his people will be waiting for every state to come in and have a long night like they predicted. Or, may be there would be someone that would go back and change the ballots in Ohio to make him win there. If that was to happen some how, he still will not win the election unless he won Fl, and other states. So I say Let them stay up. Ill be sleeping.
Adam
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Barack Obama supporters celebrate on election night in Chicago.
At 11:31 p.m.ET: President Barack Obama was projected by NBC News to win re-election to a second term, beating Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in enough swing states to secure four more years in office.
Propelled by an advantage over his Republican opponent in his Midwestern “firewall” – Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa – Obama prevailed after a long-fought election in which the economy, its slow pace of recovery and Obama’s management of it, became the central issue.
Romney’s path to victory vanished as NBC News declared Obama the projected winner in Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, states the GOP nominee had contested in a bid to expand his Electoral College map.
The battleground states of Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire, and Colorado – each of which were considered toss-up states entering Election Day – remained too close to call, according to NBC News.
There were additional foreboding signs for Romney in states into which he sought to expand his campaign. NBC News declared Obama the projected winner in Michigan, another state in which Romney had campaigned, and the state where the GOP nominee was raised and his father served as governor.
Both Obama and Romney picked up support in states they were generally expected to win, setting either Obama on course for a second term or expelling an incumbent president for his challenger for the first time since 1992.
Obama, for at least the next two years, will find an adversary in the House of Representatives, which NBC News projected to stay in Republican hands.
The early results from battleground states underscored the closeness of the presidential election, as neither Obama nor Romney opened up an immediate or decisive advantage in those states in the immediate aftermath of closed polls.
Exit poll data among early voters suggested that the economy, the issue on which Obama and Romney focused for much of their campaign this year, was at the front of voters’ minds across the country. The data also suggested Obama maintained an advantage among women and Latino voters, two blocs the president had courted for much of the year. Romney fared better among white voters and men.
As results trickled in, Obama was set to have dinner with the first family at their home in south Chicago, while Romney joined his family at a hotel suite near his election night party in Boston. The president spent the day doing a series of interviews and participating in a pick-up game of basketball, an Election Day tradition for Obama.
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
Speaking to reporters traveling with him from Pittsburgh to Boston, Romney said he sensed that victory was on the horizon.
“You know, intellectually, I've felt we're going to win this and have felt that for some time,” Romney told reporters traveling with him from his last campaign stop from Pittsburgh back to Massachusetts. “But emotionally, just getting off the plane and seeing those people standing there … just seeing people there cheering as they were connected emotionally with me and I not only think we’re going to win intellectually, I feel it as well.”
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