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Election 2012 results: Vote totals, final results, electoral votes, live election coverage
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Barack Obama thanked supporters for re-electing him as President of the United States at a rally at the McCormick Place convention center in Chicago. President Obama won the 2012 election against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by carrying key swing votes such as Ohio, Colorado and Virginia.
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by PBS NewsHour via Newshour.s3.amazonaws:80 edited by ABC15 11/7/2012 4:29:18 AM -
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President Obama: “Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope - the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual beliefs, we are a family and we will rise and fall together as one people.”
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“Tonight in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up -- we are on our way back, and we know in our hearts, for the United States of America, the best is yet to come,” the president said.
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“I want to thank every American who participated in this election - whether you voted for the very first time, or waited in line for a very long time. By the way - we have to fix that,” Obama said. “Whether you pounded the pavement or picked up the phone. Whether you held an Obama sign or a Romney sign, you made your voice heard - and you made a difference.”
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“I just spoke to Gov. Romney, and I congratulated him and Paul Ryan on a hard-fought campaign. We may have battled fiercely, but it’s only because we love this country deeply, and we care so deeply about its future,” Obama said. “In the weeks ahead, I look forward to sitting down with Gov. Romney to talk about ways we (can) work together to move America forward.”
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“Democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated. We have our own opinions. Each of us has deeply held beliefs. And when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it necessarily stirs up controversy. That won’t change after tonight - and it shouldn't,” the president said.
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Obama: “Despite all our differences, most of us share certain hopes for America’s future. We want our kids to grow up in a country where they have access to the best schools and the best teachers. A country that lives up to its reputation as a global leader in technology … free of debt ... that isn’t threatened by inequality or ... a warming planet.”
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“Tonight, you voted for action, not politics as usual. You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. And in the coming weeks and months, I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders from both parties, to meet the challenges we can only solve together,” Obama said.
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LOS ANGELES -- A proposal to tax soda in a L.A. County city is failing by a large margin, according to early returns. El Monte city officials estimated that the tax would have generated between $3.5 million and $7 million a year by adding a one-cent per ounce tax on not only soda, but also bubble tea, horchata and agua fresca. -
“This country has more wealth than any nation -- but that’s not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military, but that’s not what makes us strong,” Obama said. “What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth, the belief that our destiny is shared.”
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“I am hopeful tonight because I’ve seen this spirit at work in America. I’ve seen it on the shores of New Jersey and New York, where leaders from both parties have swept aside their differences to help their communities rebuild after the wreckage of a terrible storm.”
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From the Miami Herald: “Miami-Dade will not report full election results until Wednesday, election supervisors said Tuesday night, as dozens of polls remained open four hours after closing time.
Lines were so long in some polling places, that the last voter did not leave the West Kendall Regional Library until a few minutes after 1 a.m.” Some people, according to the article, had to wait six hours or longer to cast their ballots. -
Obama: “I’ve never been more hopeful about America, and I ask you to sustain that hope. I’m not talking about blind optimism -- the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the task ahead … I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us, so long as we have the courage to keep reaching.”
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MISSOULA, Mont. -- It may not be surprising that in a state that did not cast its electoral votes for President Obama that news of his reelection drew mixed reactions at the party headquarters Tuesday night. Networks’ projections of Obama’s win drew cheers from Montanans who had spent most of the night waiting for results in the closely fought statewide races. “I voted for him and because I feel like it means good things for our country,” Hannah Berglund, 21, Helena, Mont., said. Meanwhile, at the Republican headquarters, failed gubernatorial candidate Neil Livingstone said, "I’m disappointed. I fear for our country... The country’s very divided. This campaign has been very divisive." -
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President Obama, who won a second term in office by defeating Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, walks out with his family to address supporters during his election night rally in Chicago. Photo by Jeff Haynes/ Reuters.
by PBS NewsHour via Newshour.s3.amazonaws:80 11/7/2012 7:00:56 AM -
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Unhappy Mitt Romney supporters at the Colorado GOP watch party shortly after President Obama was announced as winner at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Tuesday. Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post.
by PBS NewsHour via Newshour.s3.amazonaws:80 11/7/2012 7:02:09 AM -
This is much more Obama 2008 rhetoric than we've heard in this campaign so far.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 7, 2012 -
U.S. Senate Republican candidate Jeff Flake waves next to his wife Cheryl Flake during the Republican Party election night event in Phoenix, Ariz. Flake defeated former surgeon general and U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Richard Carmona. Photo by Joshua Lott/ Reuters.
by PBS NewsHour via Newshour.s3.amazonaws:80 11/7/2012 7:03:14 AM -
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The president waves to the crowd from the confetti-strewn stage.
Brooks on Obama’s speech: “That was excellent. It brought me back actually to the Iowa Caucus victory speech. And I liked, as Judy mentioned, the line, ‘I listened, I learned.’ …”
Shields: “Contrast that with the first debate - it was a different man; it was a different energy, a sense of optimism, and sense of possibility. It was a call to arms -- just the question is, the mission has yet to be defined.” -
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Michael Beschloss: More ambitious than most, “It had more of the texture of a convention speech.”
Richard Norton Smith: “It imparted a dignity, even a majesty, to a political campaign that has often been without.” And yet the incongruity: “Now comes the hard part.” -
Stuart Rothenberg: “The question for me is, will the president show leadership - and how does he define that. It’s one thing to bring your party along if they like the agenda. But if he really wants to reach out, you have to ask whether he can bring his party along when they don’t like the deal.”
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Mark: “The challenges are enormous - but he sounded tonight like he was energized and inspired and determined. The test will be - we’ll need it soon. It won’t be in 2012; we’ll need it between now and the end of the year” to deal with the fiscal cliff and the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts.
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David Brooks: “It was a big agenda. My reflection on the night is how the country has changed,” especially in terms of leadership diversity, many more women senators, one openly gay. “The country is really in the midsts of a demographic, cultural transition. This is a big, long-term thing … in the middle of a big economic transition.”
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@newshour control room, still going strong! twitter.com/PJTobia/status…
— P.J. Tobia (@PJTobia) November 7, 2012 -
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Rep. Ed Perlmutter cheers with the crowd after doing a double cartwheel after winning over Joe Coors Jr. at the Sheraton Denver west Lakewood, Colorado Tuesday. Photo by The Denver Post.
by PBS NewsHour via Newshour.s3.amazonaws:80 11/7/2012 7:22:24 AM -
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