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FL Election Results 2012: Barack Obama Defeats Mitt Romney

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« on: November 10, 2012, 03:26:31 pm »

FL Election Results 2012: Barack Obama Defeats Mitt Romney

By TAMARA LUSH 11/10/12 01:34 PM ET EST AP




Fl Election Results 2012
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a crowd of supporters on stage on election night November 6, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have brought back memories of 2000.

No matter the outcome, Obama had already clinched re-election and now has 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206.

The Florida Secretary of State's Office said that with almost 100 percent of the vote counted, Obama led Republican challenger Mitt Romney 50 percent to 49.1 percent, a difference of about 74,000 votes. That was over the half-percent margin where a computer recount would have been automatically ordered unless Romney had waived it.

There is a Nov. 16 deadline for overseas and military ballots, but under Florida law, recounts are based on Saturday's results. Only a handful of overseas and military ballots are believed to remain outstanding.

It's normal for election supervisors in Florida and other states to spend days after any election counting absentee, provisional, military and overseas ballots. Usually, though, the election has already been called on election night or soon after because the winner's margin is beyond reach.

"Florida has spoken loudly in support of moving our nation forward," Ashley Walker, the Obama campaign's director for Florida, said in a news release. She added that the win was a testament to the campaign's volunteers and staff.

When reached by phone Saturday, Mitt Romney's communications director Gail Gitcho said the campaign had no comment.

Obama's win came in part from heavy support from black, Hispanic and younger voters. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press showed Obama was favored by more than 9 of 10 black voters and 3 of 5 Hispanic voters in Florida. The president also was the choice of two-thirds of voters under age 30.

Republican challenger Mitt Romney led among both white and older voters.

In the end, the facts of who voted for which candidate in Florida faded into memory as voting issues emerged election night.

On election night this year, it was difficult for officials – and the media – to call the presidential race here, in part because the margin was so close and the voting stretched into the evening.

In Miami-Dade, for instance, so many people were in line at 7 p.m. in certain precincts that some people didn't vote until after midnight.

The hours-long wait at the polls in some areas, a lengthy ballot and the fact that Gov. Rick Scott refused to extend early voting hours has led some to criticize Florida's voting process. Some officials have vowed to investigate why there were problems at the polls and how that led to a lengthy vote count.

If there had been a recount, it would not be as difficult as the lengthy one in 2000. The state no longer uses punch-card ballots, which became known for their hanging chads. All 67 counties now use optical scan ballots where voters mark their selections manually.

Republican George W. Bush won the 2000 contest after the Supreme Court declared him the winner over Democrat Al Gore by a scant 537 votes.

The win gave Obama victories in eight of the nine swing states, losing only North Carolina. In addition to Florida, he won Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Virginia, Colorado and Nevada.

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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2012, 03:27:49 pm »

The T Party was defeated in this election, so it should tell the Republicans that this isn't a far right country.  This country wants to be governed by moderates.  60% of exit polls showed that Americans agree with the President on tax policy.  ObamaCARES is the law of the land and Republicans should stop wasting taxpayer monies to try to repeal it.   Women want our rights in this country and we said so in this election.


Let's see if the Republicans are willing to work with the Dems for the good of the country.    Let's see if they got the message of the election that it wasn't their candidates to blame or the hurricane to blame, but it is their ideas that are to blame.
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« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2012, 03:29:14 pm »

This is another sign that the people believe more in the vision of Barack Obama than his opponent. If only the Republican congress now could get it through their heads that the Gallup Poll as well as several others have shown, the majority of Americans believe the Bush tax breaks should expire for those making over $250,000.

The success of the future of the Republican party is simple. Either they listen to the majority of Americans, or they continue to fold to their wealthy contributors and Grover Norquist. They tried the latter for awhile now. Obviously it does not work anymore.
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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2012, 03:29:50 pm »

AN ELECTORAL LANDSLIDE BY ANY MEASURE
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Obama won six more states than Gore won in 2000! Colorado, Ohio, New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida, and Nevada.

And Bush only beat Gore by FIVE Electoral Votes!

Obama beat Romney by ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX Electoral Votes!
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« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2012, 04:16:21 pm »

Floridians sit up and applaud when the military violates posse-comitatus.  FLORIDA. Is on the NWO's easy list.  They already have a slew of UN trucks based here.  The NWO will have half the state under martial law before many Floridians even realize what is going on.  Thank God A J is on in central and south Florida.  Even so it is going to be a rough next few years.

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