2012 Election: voting results so far Alabama (9 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 61% (1,245,221 votes) Barack Obama 38% (787,027 votes) Alaska (3 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (120,329 votes) Barack Obama 41% (90,743 votes) Arizona (11 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (896,302 votes) Barack Obama 43% (707,744 votes) Arkansas (6 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 60% (631,244 votes) Barack Obama 37% (38…
A poll of more than 570,000 people across the globe has revealed non-Americans want Barack Obama to remain President of the United States. The research, conducted across 36 countries outside the US, revealed 81% were in favor of Barack Obama spending another four years in office. And only 19% preferred his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to the findings from MSN. Interestingly, the o…
pen question but the Romney campaign thinks so. “What’s going on here is when you have intensity and momentum,” said the Romney adviser. “You ask voters who they’re voting for and they say 48, 47 points Obama. And then you look at the people who are eight, nine,10 on the intensity scale, Republicans have a high single digits to low double digits advantage. “That’s what you see in…
218 electoral votes for Barack Obama and 320 for Mitt Romney with the Republican candidate winning every seat currently considered to be on the fence. The prediction model uses economic data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, including income per capita and both state and national unemployment figures. The research concluded that U.S. voters blame Democrats for high unemployment rat…
aratchiks in the post-debate spin room in Florida on Monday – he told the crowd that a vote for Mitt Romney would plunge Americans back to the early 1960s. “You can choose to turn the clock back 50 years for women and immigrants and gays,” he said. “Or in this election you can stand up for the principle that America includes everybody. We’re all created equal – black, white, Hisp…
…his tax proposals. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney’s sit-down Thursday was expected to be their most extensive private meeting to date. The two men had only a handful of brief exchanges before the 2012 election. Even after their political fates became intertwined, their interactions were largely confined to the three presidential debates. Mitt Romney has virtually disappeared from politics fol…
esident Obama and Governor Romney tied with women in battleground states (48-48) is an extreme outlier, defying the trends seen in every other battleground and national poll.” Overall, Mitt Romney has 50% of support among likely voters in the 12 battleground states, while Barack Obama is trailing with 46% support, according to the survey. Without winning women, Barack Obama’s path to victory…
…y – the Republicans – had lost their way and had forfeited the label of conservative. Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said the next president would set the tone for the next 40 years. “It will be the president’s leadership that determines how we as a nation meet the challenges that face the middle class. It is the president’s values that shape a future…
esident Obama and Governor Romney tied with women in battleground states (48-48) is an extreme outlier, defying the trends seen in every other battleground and national poll.” Overall, Mitt Romney has 50% of support among likely voters in the 12 battleground states, while Barack Obama is trailing with 46% support, according to the survey. Without winning women, Barack Obama’s path to victory…
President Barack Obama won re-election with a similar coalition that carried him to the presidency in 2008: women, young voters, African Americans and Latinos. But the popular vote was not as strongly in Barack Obama’s favor this time, owing to declines in some key but shrinking parts of the electorate. 1. The female vote Men and women split between the candidates: overall, 55% of women vo…
…the fragile US economy, the issue uppermost in voters’ minds. Mitt Romney said he knew what it took to create jobs and boost pay, while Barack Obama was nine million jobs short of his pledge of 5.4% employment. But Barack Obama accused Mitt Romney of planning $5 trillion of tax cuts and $2 trillion of defence spending the military had not even requested. “You mentioned the Navy, for e…
…econd term as president. The risk is the political blowback that can come if he is seen as crossing a line into politicizing national security. “Sad,” said a Mitt Romney spokeswoman. “Shameless,” said 2008 Barack Obama election foe John McCain. Joe Biden even combined the killing of the Al Qaeda leader and Barack Obama’s support for a failing auto industry into what he called a re-election b…
…ry, as well as healthcare reform. But Mitt Romney said the last four years had not been as rosy as the president would like to portray, saying the president had made pledges to deliver unemployment of 5.4%, an immigration plan, and to cut in half the deficit, but had met none of them. “The president’s tried, but his policies haven’t worked,” said Mitt Romney. One of the sha…
…r wealthy Americans, and said Barack Obama had misrepresented Romney’s tax plans on the campaign trail. He hit out at the president for failing to cut the budget deficit in half as he pledged in 2008, and insisted that the US must not allow itself to go down the path of Greece or Spain. Clashing repeatedly with Jim Lehrer over the time clock, Mitt Romney said that in order to reduce the $1.1…
…ure the candidates will oblige by keeping their answers concise and on point.” It was revealed from CNN timekeeping on the debate, that Barack Obama had spoke for three extra minutes The President got 44:04 minutes of speaking time, while Romney got 40:50. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had both revealed their concern over Candy Crowley ahead of tonight’s second presidential debate because she…
s. Mitt Romney Would spend heavily on military hardware and invest in missile defence, adding an estimated $100 billion to the Pentagon’s budget, while reducing the civilian defence bureaucracy. 5. Afghanistan Barack Obama Initially increased the number of troops in Afghanistan; has begun a draw-down of US troops with the combat mission to end by 2014. Mitt Romney Has said his “goal…
…been “reduced to petty attacks and silly word games”. Recent polls show an ever-tightening race, including in key election states. A CNN poll on Friday suggested Mitt Romney has a slender 1% lead in Florida, within the poll’s margin of error. A separate poll gave a similar edge to Mitt Romney in Iowa and New Hampshire. Both candidates are also trying to gain as many votes as pos…
ts” in strategy before the election on 6 November. A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Thursday suggested Mitt Romney had a net positive rating for the first time in the presidential campaign. The poll said 51% of voters viewed him positively, with Barack Obama at 56%. The Republican moved ahead of the president on which candidate voters trust to handle the economy, create jobs and manage the deficit. B…
…The president picked up the backing of rock star Bruce Springsteen, as he did in 2008. Bruce Springsteen campaigned for Barack Obama on Thursday in Ohio with former President Bill Clinton. “For 30 years I’ve been writing about the distance between the American dream and American reality,” Bruce Springsteen said, reading from a statement. “Our vote is the one principal way…
umber is you’ve got an incumbent president who has been running for this job for the last four years since the day he got elected, will have raised and spent over $1 billion and he is stuck well below 50, at 48, 47, 46, in all of these polls. “When you’re an incumbent under 50, and well under 50, that’s a bad place to be.” …
…d Michigan and Minnesota, forcing the Democrats into late advertising there. Early voting has been a key focus of this presidential election – some 25 million voters have already cast ballots in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Some states have released the affiliation of early voters, giving Barack Obama an edge in Florida, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio, while Mitt Romney is…
…Room designed to highlight the “gutsy call” made by the President. Barack Obama used a news conference yesterday to trumpet his personal role and imply that his Republican opponent Mitt Romney, who in 2008 expressed reservations about the wisdom of sending troops into Pakistan, would have let Osama bin Laden live. “I said that I’d go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did,”…
ecent polls indicate that the election is likely to be a close contest, although an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Tuesday evening showed that Barack Obama’s approval rate has hit 50% for the first time since March. In addition, the poll put the president ahead of Mitt Romney by 5% among likely voters polled across the nation. The poll had a margin of error of 3.6%. On David L…
ll taxes, which fund benefits such as Social Security, and income taxes, which largely fund the rest of the federal budget. In 2011, the Tax Policy Center studied the tax liability of US households: • 53.6% paid income taxes, 46.4% did not • 28.3% paid payroll taxes but not income taxes • 10.3% were elderly and retired and were not taxed on Social Security benefits • 6.9% did not pay any tax with…
…putting in 14-hour days in an effort to deliver the state for Barack Obama. Average of national opinion polls shows Barack Obama heading into election day with a single-point lead among likely voters, 49% to 48%. Mitt Romney remains favored among whites, older people and evangelical Christians; Barack Obama among women, non-whites and young adults. In the crucial swing state of Ohio, a RealClearPo…
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