After a long night of close calls, the people of America have decided to re-elect Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States.
Obama was officially declared the winner of the election at approximately 8:13 p.m. PST after various news outlets including CNN and Fox News reported Obama won California and the swing state of Ohio.
As of Tuesday night, Obama garnered 303 electoral votes out of the necessary 270 and 50 percent of the popular vote, defeating Republican opponent Mitt Romney, who only received 206 electoral votes and 49 percent of votes nationwide.
Addressing a crowd of supporters chanting “four more years,” Obama gave his victory speech in his hometown of Chicago. The president thanked the American voters for their participation as well as the Romney campaign for a hard-fought election.
“We are an American family, and we all rise and fall together as one nation and as one people,” he said. “We have picked ourselves up, and we have fought ourselves back … the best is yet to come.”
President Obama encouraged bipartisanship among politicians in order to face the many problems that the nation faces.
“I believe we can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggest or as cynical as our pundits believe,” he said. “We are, and forever will be, the United States of America.”
Romney conceded defeat at about 10 p.m. PST and gave his concession speech to supporters at his campaign headquarters in Boston, Mass. Romney congratulated Obama on his re-election and thanked his wife Ann and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.
“I have just called President Obama to congratulate him on his victory,” Romney said. “This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.”
In California, polls closed at 8 p.m. while students and Berkeley citizens still lined up outside polling stations held at the campus residence halls.
“It is nerve-wracking but exciting because it’s the first time I’m able to see the outcome of the things I voted on,” said UC Berkeley junior Kenzie Mittelman.
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Four more years of unemployment/underemployment of over 50% for recent grads. Wall Street is “rallying” because of this “good” news…currently down approx. 300 points.
Some of the reasons Romney lost:
1. Romney alienated all those who supported the “Dream Act”, referring to their kids as illegal aliens
2. He alienated those who supported the woman’s right to choose
3. He alienated the 47% of Americans that collect some kind of Government check by saying “they see themselves a victims” and that “these 47% will vote for Obama no matter what”. He certainly sealed that deal with the those voters
4. Romney: “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place we were born and raised”
5. Romney: “If my father had been born of Mexican parents I’d have a better shot at winning this”
6. Romney: “(Obama) says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”- That is not the best strategy to win middle-class votes by attacking firefighters and policemen.
7. Romney: “I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.” Poor people vote also!
8. Then Romney is a Mormon, and a deacon of the Church. Mormonism puts off a lot of voters
9. Romney does not support equal social and civil rights for gays. Millions of gay people vote.
10. Romney was against Obama Care, which will provide affordable healthcare to millions of poor children. Their mothers vote?
11. Romney chose to criticize President Obama for seeking to cut a bloated and unsustainable Defense Department
Romney lost because that 47% number was just a few percentage points low, that’s all.
Have fun blaming Bush for another 4 years.
So we’re turning into a third world nation, so what? Like that’s a bad thing? Any red-blooded man who ever had a chance to vacation in a third world country knows that they are bonanzas for cheap pussy. Who needs to fly to Thailand or the Philippines anymore when there will be plenty of young nubile college students unable to find work, much less pay off their student loans without a little help from sugar daddy? I know of several dozen Cal undergrad girls already well as plenty of recent graduates advertising their services on Backpage and TER already due to the crappy economy… and it’s only going to get better! Blonde, brunette, redhead, ebony, latina, asian, you name it. And don’t believe any of this stuff that these girls only will go with younger, attractive guys, because cash talks when it comes to some desperate little lady needs to pay the rent money. Gotta admit, it’s a hell of a power trip when you tell some cutie that she’s going to have to earn the benjamins by doing something she wouldn’t even consider with her own BF. And it’s funny has hell when these young kids cop an attitude and tell me “you’re too old/ugly/disgusting to get laid” when they have no clue that the innocent little love of their life has downed more sausage than the winner of last year’s Nathans hot-dog eating contest to pay her bills while you have been living off of ramen and campaigning for Obama, thinking he’s going to provide you with cradle-to-grave economic security. Life can be a bitch sometimes.
LOL.
Who honestly expected things to turn out otherwise?
Barack Obama kicked LIAR and LOSER Mitt Romney’s ass! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Four more years of blaming George Bush for Obama’s failure to do anything for the economy.
Dude, Stan, you bought the ticket and took the ride a long time ago, brother. You bought in to a particular conception of “the economy” that is no longer. That is your problem, not ours. Change happens. The old economy isn’t coming back, and your only plan is to try to bring it back, and it ain’t gonna happen. Forward.
Forward to what, some liberal socialist Utopia where the government wipes your ass for you from cradle to grave? We see how well that worked in Greece, so what makes you think it’s going to be any better here?
Let us know how your job search goes. Enjoy your Obamaphone and wait for the music to stop.
Oh, you’re an expert on the economy.
Ever had a real job or are you still in school?
50% to 49% isn’t an ass kicking. When Obama could barely win the popular vote against a Mormon who wasn’t that popular amongst Republicans, it tells us that the President hasn’t impressed people.
he won thru incumbent advantage…plus the dems love to spoil americans with their incessant spending to please them driving our nation into the dumps