01:57
7.11.2012
The results (electoral votes in parentheses):
Battleground States
# Florida (29) - 67% reporting - Obama 50% - Romney 49%
# New Hampshire (4) - 8% reporting - Obama 61% - Romney 37%
# Ohio (18) - 25% reporting - Obama 56% - Romney 43%
# Virginia (13) - 36% reporting - Romney 54% - Obama 45%
States Called
Mitt Romney
# Alabama (9)
# Arkansas (6)
# Georgia (16)
# Indiana (11)
# Kentucky (8)
# Mississippi (6)
# Oklahoma (7)
# South Carolina (9)
# Tennessee (11)
# West Virginia (5)
Barack Obama
# Connecticut (7)
# Delaware (3)
# Illinois (20)
# Maine (4)
# Maryland (10)
# Massachusetts (11)
# Rhode Island (4)
# Vermont (3)
01:57
7.11.2012
The results (electoral votes in parentheses):
Battleground States
# Florida (29) - 67% reporting - Obama 50% - Romney 49%
# New Hampshire (4) - 8% reporting - Obama 61% - Romney 37%
# Ohio (18) - 25% reporting - Obama 56% - Romney 43%
# Virginia (13) - 36% reporting - Romney 54% - Obama 45%
States Called
Mitt Romney
# Alabama (9)
# Arkansas (6)
# Georgia (16)
# Indiana (11)
# Kentucky (8)
# Mississippi (6)
# Oklahoma (7)
# South Carolina (9)
# Tennessee (11)
# West Virginia (5)
Barack Obama
# Connecticut (7)
# Delaware (3)
# Illinois (20)
# Maine (4)
# Maryland (10)
# Massachusetts (11)
# Rhode Island (4)
# Vermont (3)
01:48
7.11.2012
Election result maps haven't always been on really huge HD screens. #vote2012 theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
— RFE/RL (@RFERL) November 7, 2012
01:45
7.11.2012
Serious questions!
Americans, why do you pronounce Kansas as it is, but pronounce Arkansas as "Arkansaw"? Why, people?
— Bassem Sabry باسم (@Bassem_Sabry) November 7, 2012
01:32
7.11.2012
Obama senior advisor David Plouffe to "MSNBC" - "Too close to call is not bad news. These battleground states were always going to be close. Everything we’re seeing in the actual returns encourages us greatly – turnout, how people are voting. We’re liking what we see a great deal."
01:27
7.11.2012
The satire site "The Onion" with typically sharp commentary:
BREAKING: Latest polls show overwhelming infinity of possibilities, showing us all how small we really are onion.com/SLD7x0
— Onion Politics (@OnionPolitics) November 7, 2012
01:24
7.11.2012
Via Micah Cohen at 538:
Just more than three-quarters of the vote has been reported in Chesterfield County, Va., an important suburban and exurban region southwest of Richmond. In the tally so far, Mitt Romney leads President Obama 54 percent to 45 percent. If those percentages hold, Mr. Romney’s performance there would match almost exactly Senator John McCain’s margin of victory in Chesterfield County in 2008: 53 percent to 46 percent. Former President George W. Bush, however, when he carried the state in 2004, won Chesterfield County with 63 percent of the vote.
01:20
7.11.2012
Mitt Romney: "We fought to the very end and I think that's why we'll be successful. I just finished writing a victory speech. It's about 1,118 words. And I'm sure it'll change before I'm finished because I haven't passed it around to my family, and friends, and advisers to get their reaction. But I've only written one speech at this point."
01:18
7.11.2012
You probably won't hear a lot about Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson:
.@garrettquinn talks to AJR about being the Gary Johnson press corps: ajr.org/Article.asp?id…
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) November 7, 2012
00:58
7.11.2012
A senior GOPer w close ties to Romneyland emails a single word: "worried."
— jmartpolitico (@jmartpolitico) November 6, 2012