Obama wins Florida!

[mnhtnbb]

Final Electoral count: 332 for Obama 206 for Romney


Popular vote


Barack Obama Obama 61,206,825
50.5%
Mitt Romney Romney 58,193,424
48.0%


http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results

[gademocrat7]

1. Forward!

Florida,keep turning blue.

[boingboinh]

2. The HUMILIATION is Complete!

[valerief]

45. And wonderful! nt

[BlueCaliDem]

3. And this despite voter suppression and voter roll purges

running rampant in Florida!

Goes to show how powerful and loved President Obama is.

[yellowcanine]

16. But it is still unacceptable even if just one vote was lost because of suppression/purges

And likely it was in the thousands, perhaps more. No way to really know, unfortunately.

[Raster]

25. It is BEYOND UNACCEPTABLE. No citizen, no matter who they vote for, should EVER have...

...their legal and lawful vote suppressed.

The electoral infrastructure in Florida is broken. The Governor is a criminal and belongs in prison.

[mnhtnbb]

4. Thanks to all the FL Dems who stood in line for hours to vote: Obama won by 60,767 votes!

which was a difference of 0.7% of the vote.

[Cha]

43. That's about 5 thousand more than I saw yesterday!

Thanks mnhtnbb.. sorry about North Carolina. I know you all worked so hard!

[ready2go83]

66. Hugs!!!

It's ok, at least he won! But NC was close too!

[Cha]

69. Yeah, it was sooo Close! HUGS!! :)

[yends21012]

47. and more than 3 million nationwide

[LongTomH]

5. Woo Hoo!!!! Take that, Skeletor!!!!!

You are no longer a Master of the Universe!

[democrattotheend]

6. Did the news organizations finally call it?

Or are these final results from the SOS?

[mnhtnbb]

12. Romney's FL campaign apparently conceded FL yesterday even though two counties

are still being counted (Palm Beach and Duval)


Despite the never-ending counting of ballots in Florida, Mitt Romney‘s campaign on Thursday recognized that President Obama is on his way to victory there. With only ballots from Democratic-leaning counties left to be counted, the final tally was not expected to change the outcome, Republican acknowledged.

“We thought based on our polling and range of organization that we had done what we needed to win,” Brett Doster, a Florida adviser for Mitt Romney, told The Miami Herald in a statement. “Obviously we didn’t, and for that I and every other operative in Florida has a sick feeling that we left something on the table. I can assure you this won’t happen again.”

By Thursday afternoon, the state Division of Elections Web site said Mr. Obama led Mr. Romney 49.9 percent to 49.2 percent, with a difference of about 55,000 votes out of more than eight million votes cast. Several counties continued to count absentee ballots throughout the day. An official declaration is expected on Friday, and an Obama victory would give him 332 electoral votes to Mr. Romney’s 206.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/romney-aide-says-campaign-lost-florida/?ref=politics

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. THAT sounded ominous:

"we....thought.....we had done what we needed to win,”
"I can assure you this won’t happen again.”

Am I the only one who heard, in that sentence, " we did not cheat enough, but watch out for next time"?

[Graybeard]

21. "...this won't happen again."

I took this to mean that the guy who screwed up

is already sleeping with the fishes.

[LisaL]

34. Exactly. What does he mean by he can assure it won't happen again?

[lexw]

39. Same thing with Ohio...

I think that's why they were so shocked and waited: they had plans to steal, but someone wasn't doing what they were told or something was working.

[Graybeard]

7. Is this the final final? I mean really final?

No challenge by the sore losers? No recounts because of some obscure state regulation?

If so....and I certainly hope it is....then

[LisaL]

33. No, I think they are still counting some ballots.

But Obama's lead is such that it should hold.

[texshelters]

8. I guess Republicans gave up

trying to steal the state since they wouldn't win the election even with Florida.

PTxS

[LukeFL]

9. I glad he won it. I do question the total

Number. It is impossible to imagine all those ppl doing long lines 4-9 hrs voting for Romney.

We will never know the true number in which Obama won, but I can assure you it was not 60k

[yellowcanine]

10. 332....Solid win and I called it a week before the election!

With considerable assistance from Nate Silver although he had not yet turned Florida blue as I recall.

[jsmirman]

61. Solid? That is an ASS WHIPPING.

Or do you just mean solid in Florida?

Because 332 EVs - that is a rout.

[ffr]

11. Only HP, no others have called it yet (2:10 PM EST)

[mnhtnbb]

14. True HuffPost is only one to call it--but they are showing FL with 100% returns.

My guess is that the Romney campaign--and MSM--will be happy to bury the story late Friday afternoon.
Election is over anyway--why draw attention to how fu*ked up Florida is?

[yellowcanine]

18. My understanding is that provisional ballots are still being counted.

[Daniel537]

29. Yes, but the lead is insurmountable.

News organization need to stop playing games and call it already.

[yellowcanine]

30. The lead is about 60,000 votes. Not sure how many provisional ballots are out.

But given that provisionals will likely break at least as well for Obama as the other votes, it would seem to be insurmountable, yes.

[Daniel537]

31. I've heard 20,000

but this is Florida, so god only knows, but everybody from both campaigns to political analysts down here in FL say its going to Obama, hands down.

[yellowcanine]

13. Lot of beautiful blue on that map!

[mnhtnbb]

19. Comment accompanies this map

11/8/12, 4:35 PM ET – Final 2012 Electoral Vote Results (Romney has conceded Florida): Obama 332, Romney 206

www.freedomslighthouse.net

[Gregorian]

15. In an educated society it wouldn't have been that close.

I know, it was an electoral landslide.

It was close. Far too close. I'll go further and say that in an educated society Romney would never have been on the ballot.

I'm thrilled. And I'm disgusted. But I don't know what it would take, and how long it would take in order to turn things around given so many are struggling to keep those 58 million ignorant.

[ffr]

20. POTUS needs to stress education standards in red states

Can you imagine the fight the Rethugs will put up to prevent that?

[Gregorian]

22. Universal education. It is infrastructure.

It's more important than roads.

And yes, rural should be as important as any of the rest. Rural ed and med both suck.

I know it will never happen, but if I had my way I'd drop the military funding to 10% of what it is now. Then we'd be level with the next biggest army. Then we could have good education and medical.

[ready2go83]

68. I was saying the same thing...

No way should this idiot have gotten as many votes. But we outnumber them, we are the sane ones.

[MisterJones]

23. Did a little number crunching...

Romney won 47.7 percent of the raw vote and they rounded up. Serves him right.

[ffr]

42. Me too. Nate Silver said

RR would have needed to beat PBO by 3% in the popular vote to win and yesterday's numbers showed that would have been > 5.5 million votes on top of what RR had.

RR were waaaay off in their predictions. Imagine how poor a Pres he would have made????

War - whoops, we miscalculated
Economy - whoops, we miscalculated
Deficit reduction - whoops, we miscalculated

IDIOT!

[HopeHoops]

24. Shit. Just shit. That's easily in the "landslide" category. He kicked ASS!

[ywcachieve]

36. Yep, landslide.

[HopeHoops]

37. The GOP is drowning in tears. They got a few new assholes torn.

[coeur_de_lion]

26. Yay! Finally.

Take that Rick Scott! You bastard.

[alcibiades_mystery]

27. It's been blue on HuffPost since yesterday...not called by anyone else

Just sayin'.

[colsohlibgal]

28. It's Been A Done Deal For Some Time

Ohio and Florida are the cherries on top, what bodes well is that Obama would have still won if he had lost those two states.

I'm not sure what's holding up anyone else, provisional ballots will only pad the league.

[Filibuster Harry]

32. had that already ... but fun to celebrate again

[sebastianj333]

35. THAT'S RIGHT PEEPS, SAY IT WITH ME! LANDSLIDE!

now, let the civil war in the GOP begin!

[BlueDemKev]

38. Wow...Obama carried every state he won four years ago except IN and NC

The 2008 and 2012 electoral maps look nearly identical.

[RosedaleGuy]

41. And the dems didn't even fight for NC

yet he barely won that.

[geek tragedy]

44. Like hell they didn't fight. Hundreds if not thousands of volunteers

busted their asses for months and months down there. OFA had a huge operation. Democrats held their convention there.

In 2008, Obama's performance in North Carolina was about 7% nationally. This year it was 4.7% worse than nationally.

That improvement doesn't happen without a lot of fighting.

[oswaldactedalone]

49. We tried hard as hell

in NC. You might mean that since Obama and Biden didn't appear here after the convention that they didn't try but OFA gave it everything they had. I think it really shows what amazing upsets we had in NC and Indiana in '08.

NC is facing an unprecedented problem with Thug gov, supermajorities in both state houses and only 4 US House reps for the first time in forever.

We have to be very serious in '14 to keep Kay Hagan in the Senate and win back seats in the state legislature.

[mnhtnbb]

48. That is so much BS. OFA ground game was amazing here.

And although Obama received MORE votes in NC this time than he did
in 2008, it wasn't enough.

President Obama received 2,177,794 votes

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/42923/110329/Web01/en/summary.html

In 2008 he received 2,142,651 votes--and won by 14,000 votes.

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/7937/21334/en/summary.html

The reason Obama lost NC this time: racism. Pure and simple.

We had >800,000 voter advantage (registered Dems over Repubs) but those
Dems did NOT vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate. Why?
Racism and bigotry.

Very sad. I was very disappointed.

[LisaL]

52. It's very impressive that Obama got more votes in 2012 that he got in 2008.

You guys did an amazing job.

[jsmirman]

62. I'm sorry about the result - but Romney and the GOP did receive a stinging rebuke

guess they didn't smell what the Rock was cooking, lol.

[RosedaleGuy]

40. Romney failed at appealing to the swing states

because he ran a campaign that only appealed to his base. The GOP self-destructed.

[liberalmuse]

46. Dog bless everyone who stuck it out.

I want to give them all a HUGE hug!

[jerome arizona]

50. damn that nate fella is good!

he called popular vote 50.8 to 48.3...exactly 2.5 difference! And his numbers keep me sane!

[TroyD]

51. Has it been officially called?

From what I can tell, CNN, NBC etc. have not yet called it. Is it just The Huffington Post so far?

http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/main?hpt=po_c2

[LisaL]

53. No. They are still counting.

But I think they have to be done by tomorrow.

[TroyD]

55. With Florida you never know

But it's looking like an Obama win, since even the Romney campaign basically conceded yesterday.

Pretty good result, and probably would have been even higher had it not been for Rick Scott's vote-fixing.

Is it true that only 90% of Ohio is in?

[LisaL]

56. OH still has 200,000 outstanding provisional ballots that they can not count until Nov 17.

So, a lot of OH votes is still out.

[TroyD]

59. I'm wondering if Obama's margin will go up in OHIO?

The final PPP & SurveyUSA polls showed a +5 lead, and yet he is only at +2 over Romney.

So if Obama's lead doesn't increase there, I think we can suspect the Republicans engaged in some vote theft.

[LisaL]

60. It could. Assuming they count provisional ballots fairly.

Provisional ballots normally favor democrats.

[mnhtnbb]

54. No, but Romney camp has conceded Florida. So who cares what news organizations say?

[LisaL]

57. I want it be done officially.

[PoliticalBiker]

58. The Republicrats....

... got a thourough drubbing Tuesday.
Though the only thing you will ever hear from them are angry denials and lame excuses.

The republicrap party needs to just go away.... useless, incompetent, out of touch, racist, hateful, angry...

[jsmirman]

63. Somehow I love that Obama even won more total states than R Money

what a rout.

Total domination.

[fearnobush]

64. I believe we'll see Obama nab another 40 to 50k votes tomorrow

In Florida. He should top out at 1.1 percent. In Ohio, I expect 130 to 150 k provisional ballots with 80 to 100k of those going to Obama. He should clear 3 PTs their. By next Friday we will see mittins at 47.4% to Obama at 50.9% in popular vote. Obama will win by 3.5 % nationally. BTW,
To all those who worked their asses off in Florida, congrats and you deserve this one 100%. You guys rock.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

65. Yet again, I live in a blue state!

A wild, wacky, crazy, off the wall, dysfunctional blue state, mind you, but a blue state nonetheless. And I wouldn't have it any other way!

[ready2go83]

67. Great!

FANTASTIC! But I'm still weary that this moron got 48% of the votes, even more than Mccain. At least Mccain was a war hero that stuck to his principles. This idiot shouldn't have gotten more than 1%.

[mnhtnbb]

70. Florida says they won't certify election results until Nov. 20th!

"We're not going to call the race at any point until we actually certify the results [on Nov. 20]," Florida Department of State spokesman Chris Cate said. "We'll keep reporting results and let the media do the calling of the race. But I think the best indicator that we can give will be on Saturday when we either order a recount or if we don't. If we don't order a recount on Saturday, then I think that will be the best indicator that we can give as to who will be the ultimate winner when we certify the results."

<snip>

Thousands of residents have sent virulent emails to Gov. Rick Scott complaining and vowing not to vote for him in the 2016 election. But Scott defended the state on Friday. "What I'm trying to do is improve the way government works," Scott told The Miami Herald. "I believe in efficiency. I believe every vote has to count. I want to have a good process that people feel good about."


http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/12654/20121110/florida-election-results-2012-obama-wins-state-palm-beach-vote-count.htm


Boy, if that's efficiency...well...what a joke!