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08 November 2012

2012 Presidential Election Results 6,7&8NOV12

2012 election results by the numbers, links for results on the national, state and local level, from the Washington Post....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/election-map-2012/president/
I chose Virginia because I live here, Pennsylvania because I am from there and Scandia, PA is still home, and New York, Colorado, Texas, Georgia, New Jersey and North Carolina because that is where my family is scattered....
VIRGINIA

Live 2012 results Votes % won

1,885,188 50.8%

1,772,304 47.8

Others
52,424 1.4
99.9% of precincts reporting
Results: 2008 | 2004 Votes % won

Barack Obama
1,959,532 52.7%

John McCain
1,725,005 46.4

Others
32,368 0.9
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA

Live 2012 results Votes % won

260,835 59.3%

173,786 39.5

Others
5,553 1.3
100% of precincts reporting
Results: 2008 | 2004 Votes % won

Barack Obama
310,359 60.2%

John McCain
200,994 39.0

Others
3,895 0.8

President

Obama narrowly carried the Old Dominion by two percentage points in one of the most closely watched battlegrounds of the 2012 campaign. The president’s victory in Virginia four years ago was the first for a Democrat since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, a reflection of the state’s increasing diversity. It was a key battleground this year, and polls put the race at a dead heat for months. Obama beat Romney handily in the three large Northern Virginia suburbs of Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties. Republican Robert F. McDonnell also won the governorship in 2009 with all three counties, a reflection of the state’s ever-shifting electorate.

Senate

Democrat Timothy M. Kaine took one of the most contested Senate seats in the 2012 election, defeating Republican George Allen in the race to succeed retiring Sen. James Webb (D). The contest between two former governors was extremely close from the start and was among the country’s most expensive Senate races. The Old Dominion has become more diverse in recent years, split among white-collar suburbs with new immigrants; rural, blue-collar areas; and a heavily military presence. Kaine led the Democratic National Committee under Obama. Allen sought vindication after a defeat by Webb in 2006, when the Republican made national headlines after he was caught on video using a racially charged word, “macaca,” to describe a young man of Indian descent at a campaign rally.

House

Republicans held their 8-2 dominance in the state’s congressional delegation.

PENNSYLVANIA


Live 2012 results Votes % won

2,907,448 52.0%

2,619,583 46.8

Others
69,468 1.2
99.7% of precincts reporting
Results: 2008 | 2004 Votes % won

Barack Obama
3,276,363 54.7%

John McCain
2,655,885 44.3

Others
62,889 1.1 

WARREN COUNTY, PA
Live 2012 results Votes % won

9,415 57.2%

6,768 41.1

Gary Johnson
198 1.2

Others
81 0.5
100% of precincts reporting
Results: 2008 | 2004 Votes % won

John McCain
9,685 52.3%

Barack Obama
8,537 46.1

Others
295 1.6 



Pennsylvania
Updated: 5:58 a.m.
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President

Obama won the key swing state, keeping Pennsylvania in the Democratic column. Pennsylvania was a critical part of Obama’s math for winning the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. Pennsylvania last supported a Republican presidential candidate in 1988. Increasingly Democratic since 1992, Pennsylvania emerged as a late battleground. Romney’s campaign and conservative super PACs poured more than $11 million into the state during the final week. Polls gave Obama a lead of about 4 percentage points. For Romney, the state offered an alternative route to the 270 electoral votes late in the campaign as polls showed Obama ahead in some of the states that had been the election’s main battlegrounds, including Ohio and Iowa.

Senate

Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D) won re-election to a second term, fighting off a tough challenge from GOP nominee Tom Smith, a retired coal company executive who spent $17 million of his fortune on the airwaves. The race had tightened by mid-October. Casey, an anti-abortion, pro-gun moderate Democrat whose father was a popular Pennsylvania governor, called his opponent “Tea Party Tom Smith” and said he was too conservative for the state. Smith had support from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other conservative groups.

House

In the newly drawn 12thDistrict race in western Pennsylvania, Republican challenger Keith Rothfus, a lawyer, upset incumbent Democratic Rep. Mark S. Critz in one of the most-watched races nationally. The district stretches from Johnstown to north of Pittsburgh to the Ohio border. Critz had defeated Rep. Jason Altmire in the primary. 

NEW YORK
Live 2012 results Votes % won

3,862,859 62.7%

2,212,562 35.9

Others
85,995 1.4
98.3% of precincts reporting
Results: 2008 | 2004 Votes % won

Barack Obama
4,804,701 62.9%

John McCain
2,752,728 36.1

Others
78,898 1.0

President

Obama was declared the winner of New York’s 29 electoral votes by the Associated Press soon after the polls closed. The president won more than 62 percent of the vote in the Empire State.

Senate

Incumbent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) was declared the winner by the AP over Republican Wendy Long, in a race that was never close in pre-election polls. And those polls turned out to be correct as Gillibrand won more than 70 percent of the vote.

House

Daniel Maffei unseated freshman Republican Ann Marie Buerkle in a rematch of their 2010 race in the the 24th District in central New York. Another freshman Republican incumbent, Nan Hayworth, lost to Democrat Sean Maloney in the 18th District north of New York City. Democratic incumbents Timothy Bishop in the 1st District on eastern Long Island and Brian Higgins in the 26th District around Buffalo won their races, but Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul lost in the 27th District in western New York against former Erie County executive Chris Collins. 

COLORADO
Live 2012 results Votes % won

1,238,490 51.2%

1,125,391 46.5

Gary Johnson
32,262 1.3

Others
23,555 1.0
100% of precincts reporting
Results: 2008 | 2004 Votes % won

Barack Obama
1,288,576 53.7%

John McCain
1,073,589 44.7

Others
39,196 1.6
Battleground state watch
Colorado
Updated: 2:00 a.m.
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President

Obama repeated his sweep in Colorado from four years ago after a competitive contest with Romney. Before the president’s 2008 victory, Republicans had won the state in eight out of the previous nine presidential elections. On Tuesday, Obama won the two suburban counties around Denver, both major battlegrounds. He needed high turnout among Latinos and strong support from women to win, the same coalition that narrowly carried Democratic Sen. Michael F. Bennet to victory in 2010.

House

Republicans kept their 4-3 hold on the state’s congressional delegation. In the 6th District south of Denver, Rep. Mike Coffman (R) survived a challenge from Democratic state Rep. Joe Miklosi, despite a controversial comment Coffman made last spring when he questioned whether Obama was born in the United States and added, “I do know this: In his heart, he’s not an American.” 

TEXAS
Live 2012 results Votes % won

4,555,799 57.2%

3,294,440 41.4

Gary Johnson
88,110 1.1

Others
24,450 0.3
100% of precincts reporting
Results: 2008 | 2004 Votes % won

John McCain
4,479,328 55.6%

Barack Obama
3,528,633 43.8

Others
56,116 0.7

Texas
Updated: 6:20 a.m.
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President

Mitt Romney was the decisive winner of this consistently red state, according to the Associated Press said. He rolled up 57 percent of the vote compared to Obama’s 41 percent. Texans have voted for Republicans for president in each of the past nine general elections. In 2008, John McCain received 55 percent of votes in the Lone Star State.

Senate

Ted Cruz, a former state solicitor general and Republican up-and-comer, won the Senate seat of retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R), defeating Democrat Paul Sadler.

House

Of the 36 House races in Texas, 24 went to Republicans and 12 to Democrats. In two hotly contested races, state Rep. Pete Gallego (D) beat out freshman Rep. Francisco R. Canseco (R) for the 23rd District, while state Rep. Randy Weber (R) bested former congressman Nick Lampson (D) for the 14th District seat. Weber will succeed GOP Rep. Ron Paul, who retired from Congress have eight terms in the House. 

GEORGIA
Live 2012 results Votes % won

2,070,221 53.4%

1,761,761 45.4

Gary Johnson
45,056 1.2
100% of precincts reporting
Results: 2008 | 2004 Votes % won

John McCain
2,048,759 52.2%

Barack Obama
1,844,123 47.0

Others
28,731 0.7
Georgia
Updated: 2:40 a.m.
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President

Romney won the Georgia contest by a margin of about 7.5 percentage points, with nearly all precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. That’s an improvement for the GOP over 2008, when Obama lost to Sen. John McCain by a mere five percentage points in a rare show of strength in the Deep South.

House

A Republican, Doug Collins, has won a new, fourteenth House seat that Georgia gained through redistricting, according to the AP. However, Republicans otherwise failed in their bid to increase their House majority in Georgia, as all five Democratic incumbents were reelected (along with all eight GOP incumbents). Among the Democratic victors was Rep. John Barrow, the last white Democratic congressman from the Deep South. Barrow’s 12th District seat had been in jeopardy due to redistricting. His Republican challenger, State Rep. Lee Anderson, benefitted from $3.5 million in spending by outside groups. But Anderson won the GOP nomination by just 159 votes in a bruising primary that required a runoff election. And Barrow, a Blue Dog Democrat who has made a point of distancing himself from his party by voting against Obama’s health-care law, defeated Anderson by more than seven percentage points, according to the AP. 

NEW JERSEY
Live 2012 results Votes % won

1,924,329 58.0%

1,361,154 41.0

Others
34,201 1.0
98.9% of precincts reporting
Results: 2008 | 2004 Votes % won

Barack Obama
2,215,422 57.3%

John McCain
1,613,207 41.7

Others
39,608 1.0
New Jersey
Updated: 5:10 a.m.
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President

Obama won the Garden State, according to the Associated Press, making it the sixth straight victory here for Democrats.

Senate

Sen. Robert Menendez (D) defeated his Republican challenger, state Sen. Joe Kyrillos, who was outspent 4 to 1 by the incumbent. Menendez was not especially popular but had a sizable lead going into the contest.

House

In the new 9th District, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. beat his Republican challenger Shmuley Boteach, according to the Associated Press. Pascrell fought a tough race in the June primary, defeating Steven R. Rothman by a large margin in an expensive Democratic primary for the newly drawn district. In the most closely watched House race in the state, first-term Republican Rep. Jon Runyan in the 3rd District won reelection, fighting off Democratic challenger Shelley Adler, the widow of his 2010 opponent. Runyan, a former Philadelphia Eagles offensive tackle, was favored to win but it was a tough and sometimes nasty race. 

NORTH CAROLINA
Live 2012 results Votes % won

2,275,853 50.6%

2,178,388 48.4

Gary Johnson
44,798 1.0
100% of precincts reporting
Results: 2008 | 2004 Votes % won

Barack Obama
2,142,651 49.9%

John McCain
2,128,474 49.5

Others
25,722 0.6
North Carolina
Updated: 5:26 a.m.
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President

Mitt Romney secured a narrow victory in the Tar Heel state despite fierce efforts from the Obama camp, who won North Carolina by a margin of just 0.4 percent in 2008. Democrats poured significant resources into North Carolina, including holding the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte earlier this year. Democrats appeared to have toned down efforts in the state after that, and polls showed a consistent Romney lead. Despite a tighter-than-expected final margin of just two points, this proved more than enough to secure a Romney victory in this traditionally Republican state.

Governor

Republican Pat McCrory, the former mayor of Charlotte, claimed victory in the gubernatorial contest, a race he was strongly favored to win. Though eligible to stand for a second term, incumbent Democratic Governor Bev Perdue announced earlier this year she would not seek a second term. McCrory lost a tight race in 2008 to Perdue, but his growing political profile made him strong favorite for the 2012 race over Democrat challenger incumbent Lieutenant Governor Walter H. Dalton.

House

Redistricting hurt Democrats across several North Carolina House seats, leading to two incumbents – Reps. Brad Miller and Heath Shuler – retiring, both their seats picked up by Republicans. Rep. Larry Kissell attempted to defend his seat in the 8th District, but was defeated by Republican challenger Richard Hudson.
 
 
 

 
 





















 

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