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Obama wins re-election over Romney President Obama’s 332 electoral votes lead to victory and another 4 years in office by Spencer Traver, Stang Staff
After lengthy months of campaigning, the 2012 Presidential election has finally come to a close. The final results concluded with President Obama clearing the line of 270 electoral votes necessary for a victory over Governor Romney with a total of 332 votes. President Obama also won the popular vote among the people by roughly 3 million votes. Due to the victories of 8 out of 9 battleground (“swing”) states, President Obama was able to defeat Governor Romney proposing a final term of four years in his re-election. With the addition of 8 swing-state victories, President Obama established his reign of another four years as President of the United States. Though the Electoral College heavily favored the President in the final results, the remaining states proposed an incredibly close election. Without these battleground states, the electoral vote would have still concluded with a Democratic victory; however, the
race would have been much closer. The final results would have been: Obama (237) to Romney (191). Instead, the final results ended up being: Obama (332) to Romney (206). Clearly, the success in 8 out of 9 swing states sealed the deal for President Obama’s re-election campaign. Ironically, President Obama nearly lost many important swing states such as Ohio (+1.9% = 18 electoral votes) and the controversial Florida (+0.9% = 29 electoral votes). Florida was supposedly leaning towards Romney’s side in the early election polls, yet after a few voting errors and glitches, President Obama was declared the winner. In addition to Ohio and Florida, President Obama was able to capture Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire. Governor Romney was able to win over North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes, but it was not enough to win him the election. Overall, in total of swing-state electoral votes, President Obama claimed victory with 95 electoral votes to Governor Romney’s 15 electoral votes. Back at Houston Christian, several students immediately posted their opinions on the election results to their social media accounts. For example, senior Jahad Elhajj was quoted saying, “I just pray he’ll make the right ecision…’GObama’.” Junior Imani Daffin was also quoted
as saying, “Already making plans to be in Washington for the next inauguration. Round two boys!” On the contrary, senior Cullen Cosco sounded off on his Facebook account following the announcement of the results saying, “Perhaps in a time of such moral depravity, America deserves this. God may be condemning us like he did Israel when it turned its back on Him; I don’t know. There is, however, one thing I do know for a fact: I have never been so disappointed in America.” Senior Veronica Cecil half-heartedly joked alongside Cullen by saying, “If Romney won, he said he would donate his salary to charity. Since Obama won, he will donate yours.”
Following his re-election, President Obama now faces several challenging tasks to meet head-on as he has promised he would do in his campaigning. He faces the issue of fixing a sluggish economy that has struggled during his first term as President, as well as the looming “fiscal cliff”. His Medicare plan, known as “Obamacare,” will also become the law of the land. President Obama also must deal with tackling the decision as to whether or not to raise the debt ceiling, as well as how to deal with the wars going on in the Middle East. Needless to say, the President has several tasks at hand to deal with during his final four years.
ELECTION MAP BY COUNTY, Red seems to surely outnumber blue in percentage by color, but not by population. President Obama won 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206, due to several key swing states swinging to the Democratic side. The Republicans retained control of the House of Representatives, while the Democrats retained control of the Senate.