Via Rachel Weiner of "The Washington Post" -- About an hour before the first states began reporting, Mitt Romney told reporters on his campaign plane that he had just finished writing a victory speech of around 1,100 words. He said he had “only written one speech at this point.”
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."
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.
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The satire site "The Onion" with typically sharp commentary:
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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."
