President Barack Obama won Ohio by 166,214 votes on Nov. 6, a margin of 3 percentage points, state election officials said today in announcing official returns. So Ohio, while highly competitive, wasn’t exactly the nail-biter it seemed to be early...
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Bloomberg by the Numbers: 246
That’s the number of electoral votes in the District of Columbia and 19 states that voted Democratic in each of the past three presidential elections. The total is 24 electoral votes below the majority of 270 needed to win the...
Read more »Florida, Four Days Later: Obama
In Florida, they count no vote before its time. Four days after the election in the biggest of all swing states, Florida has finished counting ballots. President Barack Obama carried 50 percent of the vote. Republican Mitt Romney won 49.1...
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President Barack Obama supporter and volunteer Helen Briley on Nov. 6, 2012 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Florida in Play: Razor-Thin Margin Favoring a Repeat for Obama
Updated at 11 pm EST With about eight million votes counted in Florida — almost all the vote at 11 pm EST — President Barack Obama held about a half-percentage point edge over Republican Mitt Romney. If it held, the...
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"We’re going to have clarity tonight,” says David Plouffe, Obama's chief election strategist.
Obama’s Plouffe: `Clarity Tonight’
“Our sense is, we’re going to have clarity tonight,” says David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s chief election strategist.Plouffe, architect of the president’s first election campaign and a senior adviser in the re-election effort, predicts a fairly even break of the...
Read more »Obama-Romney: Breaking the Tie
Neither President Barack Obama nor Republican Mitt Romney ever drew more than 50 percent of the likely voters surveyed by ABC News and the Washington Post since early July. Neither slipped below 46 percent in four months of a campaign...
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Supporters spell out "Ohio" as they cheer for Mitt Romney on Nov. 2, 2012, in West Chester, Ohio.
Romney: One More Ohio Lap, Pennsylvania Push, on Election Day
Just when you thought the campaign was over, it’s not. Republican Mitt Romney, campaigning across five states today on the eve of the Nov. 6 presidential election, is adding two Election Day stops to his itinerary. Romney plans another lap...
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Election Eve: Second Longest Day
If Election Day promises the longest day of the 2012 campaign season, today offers a strong rival. Republican Mitt Romney opened the final day of his pitch for the presidency with a morning campaign rally in Sanford, Florida, and four...
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Voters cast their ballots as they participate in early voting on Nov. 2, 2012 at the Silver Spring Civic Building in Silver Spring, Maryland.
`Tight’ Swing States, Long Night?
“Tight as a tick” — President Barack Obama’s words for how close the vote is in some of the battleground states that matter most. The latest national polling portrays a virtual tie among likely voters divided between Obama and Republican...
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Sen. Claire McCaskill steps off her campaign bus to speak to the media outside Bayless Elementary School, on Oct. 31, 2012, in St. Louis County, Mo.
Senate Races to Watch Tuesday
With Greg Giroux and Emma Fidel President Barack Obama put it succinctly in 2010: the Democrats suffered a “shellacking” in the mid-terms, and he took the blame. Republicans won a net gain of 63 seats in the House, their biggest...
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