Obama Repeats
President Barack Obama will have four more years as President of the United States. Obama crushed Republican rival Mitt Romney by a score of 303 electoral votes to 206.
President Obama reached the magic number of 270 electoral votes, the number a candidate needs to guarantee victory, relatively early in the night. Obama’s campaigning in the “swing states” seems to have been very effective, considering he won the all of them other than North Carolina, which was still surprisingly close.
Democrats also added to their seat lead in the Senate. Prior to election day, they already had 53 Senate seats, two more than the 51 needed for a majority. The Democrats now lead the Republicans by 12 seats in the Senate. The Senate contains 56 Democrats and 44 Republicans. The House of Representatives however remains firmly in Republican control. It will be interesting in the coming months to see how Obama continues to deal with a congress who is controlled by two different parties.
Obama Seems to Have Advantage in Virginia
I believe that current president Obama will go on to win Virginia’s 13 electoral votes. Obama has maintained, even at the smallest of margins, a lead throughout the campaign over governor Romney.
Virginian’s were not hit as hard as many other citizens of other states economically. This will cause the majority of them, in my opinion, to stick with Obama and let him have another four years. It was also shown that the economy was the most important issue to most Virginian voters. This leads me to believe that the majority of voters, like in 2008, will cast their vote for Obama.
Nevada Votes Blue
President Barack Obama won re-election decisively before the results of Nevada even were in Tuesday. Nevada was one of the last states to project a winner and its 6 electoral votes went to President Obama as they did in the 2008 election.
Only two counties in Nevada voted blue, but they were Clark and Washoe counties which are the most populous in the state. President Obama has made several trips to Las Vegas over the last month and it seems that extra campaigning worked to his advantage. In total he made 10 trips to Nevada this year.
Most of the pre-election state polls had Obama with a 2 to 3 point lead in Nevada over Republican nominee Mitt Romney. With 93 percent of the votes in at this time, Obama has a 6 percentage point lead. Obama took Nevada in the 2008 presidential election by 12 points.
Obama Takes Virginina
As previously predicted, President Barack Obama narrowly beat out governor Mitt Romney for Virginia’s 13 electoral votes.
According to election results in Virginia from huffingtonpost.com, Obama won with 50.8% of Virginian voters to Romeny’s 47.8%. It seems that the majority of Virginian’s believe that the current president will do a better job helping the economy than his Republican rival.
Virginia was one of the most important battlegrounds in this election, so this victory will be a huge boost for the Obama camp.
Obama Wins Michigan
In a close race, President Barack Obama came through with the win with a larger margin than expected in Michigan. Obama took the win with almost an eight point lead over Romney. On Nov. 5, the Real Clear Politics poll showed Obama with a five point lead.
Throughout the campaign, Michigan was leaning Democratic, but toward the end Romney was creeping up on Obama and tightening the gap. In the end Obama took Michigan and its 16 electoral votes.
Obama Maintains Slight Lead in Virginia
A poll conducted by the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action has the president up by three points in the state of Virginia over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Obama is up 49 percent to 46 percent. Democratic Pollster Geoff Garin said in an email this lead is partially to do with the fact that Obama’s support with white voters is “right at the mark he needs to be hitting.” Obama’s popularity with white voters has increased among white college students, and white women, which is crucial if Obama plans to win Virginia again.
Romney Sends out Automated Phone Messages in Virginia
The Romney campaign has started to send out automated phone messages to potential Virginian voters in an attempt to gain more popularity in the state.
The phone message consists of a recorded voice that identifies herself as Christie, and also goes on to tell the listener that she voted for Obama in the last presidential election. Christie states in the message, “What has Obama done? Has he done anything to help me personally? Has any of his legislation really helped you? I think that was part of his campaign, is, ‘I got to make all these big promises, everything’s going to be wonderful, I’m going to make all these changes.’ He hasn’t done anything. He promised all this change and all these wonderful [inaudible] and none of them have happened. As far as I’m concerned, the way that politics relate to me, I mean, I feel like it’s worse now than what it was then.”
This message is another attempt by the Romney campaign to illustrate to voters that they believe that President Obama’s time in office has been a disappointment and that Obama has actually worsened conditions in the United States while president.
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