Obama Clinches Second Term
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A majority Americans approve of the job President Obama's doing and think he's focused on issues that are important to them, even though a majority also thinks the IRS intentionally singled out conservative groups for harassment, according to a new Washington Post/ ABC News poll. Why is Obama doing so well in scandal season?
This is our live results page. What you'll find here is the up-to-the-minute electoral vote count, which states are being called for whom and by whom, and how the battleground battles are shaking out.
Obama wins Ohio, and with it, the presidency.
American elections are always a global event, but with this year's emphasis on the Electoral College, foreigners are cramming to re-learn the complicated state-by-state election system.
All the top pundits in the talking head business say this presidential election was totally lame, riddled with "smallness," lacking "bigness," focused on petty complaints instead of big issues. What planet are they on?
Does this sound at all like you, or someone you know (asking for a friend)?: You woke up this morning and you realized, Oh crap, it's the election.
As is tradition before election day, our nation's wise pundits have made their predictions for who will win today, how and by what margin, theoretically giving us an idea of the most likely outcome for president of the United States.
Once you've voted there's not much else to do on Election Day other than sit around and wait for results to actually start pouring in. So what better way to get through this time than to click on some mindless election-related single-serving websites?
Running as a down-ballot Republican in a deep blue state has its challenges, but Senate candidate Linda McMahon might have found a last-minute solution: Pretend you're not a Republican!
The election is almost over, and thanks to a combination of near-constant fundraising and outside spending, the 2012 race will go down as the most expensive election in history (until we hold the next presidential race, you can assume).
Perhaps you just passed the two-hour mark standing in line to vote as frozen tears inched down your face and your toes started dying one by one, which happened to me earlier this morning. Well, cheer up, because someone somewhere in America probably has it worse than you.
Whether you've been waiting for four years, since the last election, to cast your ballots in another, or for just days or weeks or months, you can't have failed to become in some way swept up as a news reader in the undulating rhythms of politics in some way or another. Waiting! Waiting is the worst.
Some time between waiting for his appearance on The Colbert Report and fighting off math-hating haters, New York Times future predictor Nate Silver went all in on Obama Monday night.
With less than 24 hours to go until the polls close and the 2012 presidential election is, for all intents and purposes, over, the time has finally come to tally up the stats and begin to try and make sense of the past couple years of madness.
Today in Poll Watch: National polls show the presidential race essentially tied. In the swing states, it's a mixed picture: Mitt Romney has the upper hand in Florida, the two are in a dead heat in Virginia, and President Obama is ahead in New Hampshire and Ohio. But that still means Romney's the underdog, because winning Virginia and Florida won't get him to 270 electoral votes.
Election day is near, and from the looks of Google search trends, people are taking the opportunity to check whether Barack Obama is Muslim, socialist, or a citizen.
Presidential campaigns are about policies, interest groups, slogans, personalties, and, to the chagrin of very serious people, images. These are the most amazing photos taken during the 2012 election.
Let's face it: The 2012 election is so passé. Voting may be less than 24 hours away but the media has moved on to bigger and better things: Like what's going to happen after the presidential election?
The final Gallup poll released today shows Romney maintaining a one point lead over Obama.
President Obama's reelection Tuesday looks increasingly likely, but it's not certain. There's still a chance Mitt Romney could surprise pollsters and even some Republicans who've grown grim over the weekend. How could he do it?
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
On the final day of the presidential campaign, New York Times reporters lament they never really got to know the real Mitt Romney, so they offer this weird observation, and some projection: "Over the weekend, he took out his iPhone and began to surreptitiously record video of his aides asleep in their seats."
Today in Poll Watch: Colorado, a back-up for Obama, has the president in a small lead for the most part, a CNN/ORC International Poll has Obama up by three, and Mourdock drops (though not according to him) in Indiana.
Let's be real. The one state that really matters is Ohio. While it is mathematically possible for both candidates to win without Ohio, it is extremely unlikely. All the last-minute spinning might have left you, dear readers, in a state of confusion about what's going on there. But there's actually a lot we know.
Romney and Obama have really hopped, skipped, and turned all across the country to campaign, as you can see in this fun animated map video of their campaign travels by statistician Jerzy Wieczorek.
Presidents have the unique power to forgive individuals for federal offenses, restoring a person's full right to vote and other citizen rights. But Obama has a lower pardon rate than the past five presidents, with applicants having less than 1 in 5,000 chance of receiving pardon.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed President Obama for reelection Thursday, while the country is watching Bloomberg, Obama, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie work together to clean up after Hurricane Sandy.
On the last Friday before the election, CNN is giving both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney a chance to spell out their "vision for America."
President Obama likes many things: basketball, chili, his dog, and being president among them. He also seems to really, really like talking on the phone.
Wall Street does not donate to Barack Obama like it used to, and this striking month-by-month comparison chart from Center for Responsive Politics shows just how much its fallen out of love with the president since the last election.
Polling out of Iowa produces mixed results, Wisconsin's tight, and a neck-and-neck race nationally, but maybe there's a better question.
Lots of people have good luck talismans, and President Obama has the hair on his aides' faces.
Karl Rove predicts that Mitt Romney will win at least 279 electoral college votes, and 51 percent of the popular vote to President Obama's 48 percent in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. But it's a very different prediction than the one Rove has been making on his own website.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed President Obama on Thursday, writing that the massive storm that flooded his city Monday night "brought the stakes of Tuesday’s presidential election into sharp relief."
It's the most unrequited relationship in politics, but last night it showed signs of thaw.
The Economist has endorsed President Obama for a second term, a decision it anticipated would surprise its readers.
With Sandy having arrived on our shores and the polls are not really telling us how the election is going to turn out the campaign is drawing to a close on a serious note. But has it ever been fun for Romney?
Today, some conservatives complain that you can't attack President Obama without being called racist. That might have something to do with confusion over what is racist. Today, The Atlantic Wire offers help with one touchy subject area: empty chair lawn decorations.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
It's the last five days of the presidential race, the prime time for the dirtiest -- and sometimes anonymous -- attacks to come out.
If you've gone from scrubbing the guards' uniforms at Auschwitz to making suits for the President of the United States of America, nobody would argue with the fact that you win at life.
Obama's up by slim margins in two Ohio polls, a national poll has Obama up by five, Michigan might be up for grabs, Obama's up by eight in a Wisconsin poll, and Europeans like Obama.
Of course President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie care about taking care of people without power or whose homes were washed away by Hurricane Sandy. But what's in their best interest politically lines up quite nicely, too.
President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took a helicopter tour of the areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy on Wednesday afternoon.
Maybe this is why Romney is so reluctant to go on late night shows: he's been joked about more than twice as much as the president has.
When Andrew Sullivan complained of ABC's This Week Sunday that at the presidential debates, Mitt Romney "ripped off his mask and said, 'I'm brand new now.'" But we liked the new Romney, former Bush adviser Nicolle Wallace responded. Whether that's true of voters, we don't yet know, but it's definitely true of many newspapers who've backed the Republican this month.
Oh sure, little Abby sure is cute, with her red hair and red nose, when she cries that she's "tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney." The four-year-old has been joined by a surprisingly large number of reporters who decided to make their living writing about politics but can't stop complaining that the election sucks.
What Mitt Romney hoped to gain from an ad falsely suggesting Jeep is sending jobs to China was probably to peel off some of the working class white voters backing President Obama in Ohio, where the auto bailout is popular. But that has come at some cost.
What does it mean that Mitt Romney's campaign is spending money on ads in Minnesota and Pennsylvania?
As we enter the final week of the campaign (and Sandy's immediate dangers subside), the focus turns back to the swing states and few remaining polls that still matter.
Despite rumors that his luck with woman has changed, Mitt Romney has continued to fail at closing the sizable gender gap among voters with only a week to go until the election.
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