President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden were re-elected Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan.
NBC News called the presidential election for Obama around 11:15 EST. The president sent a message on Twitter at 10:14 saying simply, "This happened because of you. Thank you."
The Obama campaign won the most expensive presidential race ever, with both parties raising about $2.6 billion. The race was filled with negative campaigning on both sides, from President Obama attacking Romney’s business experience with Bain Capital to Romney lambasting Obama’s handling of the economy.
The race tightened during the final months of the campaign, with gaffes and surges from both candidates. After a weak performance after the Republican Convention, Romney surged following Obama’s listless performance after the first presidential debate. Nevertheless, the president cemented a lead in battleground states heading into Tuesday’s election.
While the results in Florida are still too close to call, here around Tampa Bay, President Obama got the majority of the votes in Pinellas County
As someone who works with the DoD and has security clearance. You know very, very little of what went on. It is currently under investigation. Most of these investigations take about a year. As far as the two possible plans you are referring to, they were possibilities. But do you know how a C-130 attacks works in the middle of a city with thousands of innocent civilians? The Marines is another issue and was logistical. Now I ask, were you asking the same questions with the 6 embasses attacked during the Bush administration. Like the following: 2002, Karachi, Pakistan - 10 dead 2004, Uzbekistan - 2 dead, 9 injured 2004, Saudi Arabia - 8 dead 2006, Syria - luckly no one was killed 2007, Athens - luckly no one was killed 2008, Serbia - Embassy was set on Fire 2008, Yemen - 10 dead Two months after these events were you calling for answers or are you playing partisan politics now?
Regardless of who was elected we were going to be fitting the bill, it all just depended on where the excessive spending was going to be used. The Affordable Health Care Act if used as written is a great piece of Bi-Partisan legislature. The only problem is everyone gets their information from partisan news instead of reading the Bill itself. The insurance premiums have been going up well before it, because insurance companies have been using it as the boogie man for their consumers. Lobbysts didn't want it to pass, because in the long run it would hurt their business. As far as other expendatures, now we have to hope the Republican House, Democratic Senate, and Democratic President can put down partisanship and work as Americans. But that hasn't happened between the two parts since the late 1990's.
Deep down I knew President Obama was going to win, I just hope our nation will prosper, government spending will go down, unemployment will go up so that small business like mine will be strong! Congratulations President Obama!
The truth is being investigated by some intelligent non-partisan members who want the facts. Not the "truths" being leaked out. Now, I have stated several times that the comments by both Obama post this incident and Romney were wrong to make. Both men made statements that they didn't have the full information to make. As far as lying about the situations, maybe. I also know a lot of people said that Bush II lied about his direct knowledge of the 9-11 attacks until it was fully investigated. So I'm just saying that these things take time, and not to pass full judgement until we have the full facts. I'm not stating this to support Obama, but to support the men and women who I support who have to go through this information daily and protect our country.
and you worshippng Obama goes agains what God thinks What is the saying about worshipping a false God ?
Then when the national election was between Obama and Romney, the mention of his religion was rarely ever heard about again. What you mainly saw from Republicans were these same portrayals of Obama as some sort of "other." Actually, not even a singular "other," but objectifying him as some other religion, some other nationality, some other completely different political philosophy, etc. This is the strongest tool that the Republican party has to fight their political races and to divide the country by compartmentalizing people into these groups with varying and conflicting (and mostly fictitious) agendas. For anybody who was spewing such vile rhetoric on sites like Patch, at family picnics or at the local pub, no matter the greater good that you perceived and used to justify it in your head, I think that today is a day for looking in the mirror as the whole Republican party ought to be doing right now. Yesterday, this great nation overwhelmingly rejected that way of thinking.
Good day to you.
I guess while were at it, what is your position on Unicorns and Bigfoot? I hear there is actually MORE evidence supporting their existence than this imaginary guy "god"
I hope you will understand my business related problems & not hold it against me as for not always agreeing it is behind us now is the time for healing & understanding each other, we all need to band together to face the future by trying to stop anybody who wants to separate us!
This (to me) isn't about women's rights, helping the unfortunate and not the clueless, racial divides, religious positions, gay/lesbians, or any other political factions...... this is about a LOT more. This to me is about the direction the country is taking when we have a media that doesn't ask the hard questions, doesn't require accountability, allows people to deceive and deflect by not keeping their promises, and the apathetic nature the electorate is taking as a whole by not considering these issues in their voting decisions. People have taken on a good parent/bad parent mentality. The parent/candidate who promises you candy 24/7 and lets you stay up all hours of the night will always win over the one that requires you maintain a curfew and eat your vegetables. But in the long run, who's REALLY looking out for YOUR best interests?
Instead of blowing smoke and flashing mirrors, why don't you, and everyone else, wait for the results of the various investigations being done by the professionals? One of my former responsibilities was in communications, and instantaneous reactions are often wrong, and multiple reactions are often conflicting, as our incoming communications often demonstrated. This President has been superb in his use of US military forces, getting more done at less cost to our brave troops, and to the nation overall. And, if you are going to criticize him for an incident where not even the investigating professionals, with access to multiple sources of information, have yet been able to reach conclusions, then all you are doing is trying to find some way to justify your own anger and disappointment, and finding some single source of complex issues and facts, and take it out on the President. You have no idea what the President, or the multiple layers of command (and do you really understand the chain of command?), knew as the incident was evolving.
Fortunately, even most of those who voted for Romney are not that delusional. Governor Romney was gracious and inspiring in his concession speech, and President Obama was equally thoughtful in his own recognition of the lifelong sense of service which both George Romney and his son Mitt followed. The President was also inspiring in his election acceptance speech, and he spoke of themes that are well understood by the moderate wing of the Republican Party, and if that wing can prevail over the Tea Party lunatics, then this country will be able to overcome not only the five and a half year old recession which is slowly being corrected, but also build a solid future for my children and grandchildren.