in order to oust president obama. and in fact i think that obama's victory was largely one of reaffirmation of support for him by those who put him in office four years ago and it's a coalition that reaches beyond what it always been the traditional notion of the united states as a white protestant or white american country that's really the dynamic because when you look at the demographics of this election it points to the america of the future as one that is much more multi-racial and multicultural the republican party is increasingly unable to deal with that fact but as well just to just to draw what you're saying here some people are saying that the that the hispanic vote in the african-american vote were crucial in getting obama another four years in the white house is that true. they were absolutely crucial because it was a pro did just turnout among black voters in particular and the entire black community the whole network of civil society and black communities came together almost spontaneously to provide sup

president barack obama said to stay in office for a second term. america's incumbent leader has taken the a decisive lead in a once being closely a forty race his victory looks as short as a number of key battleground states all leaning his way to archie's garnishee cat is joining us live from washington following the verdict diana it's been a fiercely fought race where do things that stand at the moment. well president obama now has more than two hundred seventy electoral votes that's how much he needed to win the election the president has two hundred eighty one electoral votes at this moment mitt romney is behind with two hundred one electoral votes so he does have a pretty confident lead there president obama so yes we can say pretty much with certainty broke obama was elected the forty fourth president of the united states a few words about how people voted long lines some very long queues at polling stations especially in swing states as you said to the race there was in some of those states was really tight places like pennsylvania. virginia

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and the obama campaign during 2008. he felt he had a special relationship with obama, that went on for 23 years. it is a mistake to think that barack obama only knew jeremiah write through sitting in a pew in his church and listening to these sermons. in fact, barack obama and jeremiah wright had a one-on-one relationship in which they met for literally hundreds of times in the reverend wright0s home and at every step of obama's career, he went to the reverend wright for advice, counsel, political direction. so this was a relationship that was closer than any relationship in his life, with the possible exception of his relationship with his own wife, michelle obama. >> host: does he have any direct contact with the president? >> guest: no. no contact. after obama won the presidency, the reverend right told me that he sent him a note congratulating him on achieving his amibition, as he put it. and that he didn't expect a note to get to him directly so he gave it to a neighbor of obama, who the reverend wright now to hand

here's what president obama said during the debates back in 2007. >> obama: we've got to make sure wee an effective emergency response, something this administration failed to do when we had a hurricane in new orleans. i think we have to review how we operate in the event of not only a natural disaster, but also a terrorist attack. >> cenk: it turns out he was right and preparedness is very, very important, in fact getting high praise from this gentlemen all week long. >> he has worked very, voluntary closely with me and i can't thank the president enough for working with our state and the people of our state. >> cenk: that has made rush limbaugh very, very angry. >> chris christie is the only republican not just praising obama. i mean, it's -- it's -- let me just put it this way. is it wrong for one man to love another man? but that man-love out there it's isolated to the state of new jersey. >> cenk: man i love that, because when chris christie is being a tough guy and conservative and right wing, man, that's a man's man yelling at people and mad. when he embraces the president he's

his name is barack obama. know this sounds odd, but i just had this strange feeling that he could be president of the united states some day. and i always joke, now i take betty lou to the track with me whenever i go. >> when obama ran in 2004 for the united states senate, david axelrod signed on as his media adviser. the little-known candidate with the unusual name defeated a half dozen rivals to win the democratic nomination. >> thank you! >> obama's come-from-behind victory won him wide attention. he soon got a call to deliver the keynote at the democratic national convention. >> and as soon as he hung up, he said, i know what i want to say. i want to wrap my story in the larger american story. and for the next three weeks, he was writing on little scraps of paper wherever he went, in between campaign stops. and he pulled it all together. >> the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states. red states for republicans, blue states for democrats. but i've got news for them too. w

presidente 4 años más. >>> el país renovó su confianza en el presidente barack obama, a pesar de losemas de la economía. >>> el presidente barack obama dijo que lo mejor está por venir. >>> poco antes que aceptara su victoria en chicago, mitt romney admitió su derrota en boston. >>> acabo de llamar al presidente barack obama para felicitarlo en su victoria, los que lo apoyaron en su campaña, también merecen mis felicitaciones. >>> apelando también a la unidad bipartidista, el candidato republicano pidió cerrar filas alrededor del mandatario . >>> el presidente barack obama volverá a gobernar con un congreso dividido, pero dijo que el país es mucho más que estados rojos y azules >>> esta es una edición especial de noticiero univisión ♪. >>> qué tal, muy buenos días, bienvenidos a esta edición especial de noticiero univisión, les saluda satcha pretto. >>> y ricardo arambarri, en una mañana donde el presidente barack obama amanece seguro que conservará las llaves de la casa blanca por 4 años más, los estadounidenses apostaron nuevamente por la visión de país el presidente barack obama q

obama and mr.ney now tied in the electoral vote race to 270 with wisconsin now in the president's column. so we were looking at the swing states, those battleground states that could go either way and we were looking at those tabulated votes. the state of florida, we were just showing you, is nearly tied with 282% of the vote counted. let's look at the second-largest of those swing states, the state of ohio. 36% of the vote has been counted. mr. obama out to an early lead. north carolina also very close. 75% of the vote has been counted in north carolina. a hard fought state. the unemployment rate there is still 9.6%, well over the national average. mitt romney with a lead there in north carolina. looking at the state of virginia, 52% of the vote in virginia has been counted. mitt romney out with a lead there. we have breaking news. president obama cbs news projects will carry the state of new hampshire. this is the first of the swing states, the nine battleground states that will decide this elect

electoral college, obama.'t it be flipped from prediction? >> bob: it could be but that's why you do the polls. the second number i'm not sure of, that romney could win popular vote. i'm convinced obama wins electoral college. >> kimberly: help from unio unions. >> bob: what's wrong with that? >> kimberly: just saying. >> dana: we run of the of steam. >> greg: that is it for us on "the five." >> bob: yo

for obama for re-election. george w. bush is the most unpopular second-term president in the post-war era following him into the presidency is for barack obama, the gift that keeps on giving. >> nicolle wallace, you've worked for george w. bush. you saw one thing, one dynamic in the entire campaign is mitt romney did not want to be tethered to the economic policies of george w. bush and, of course, president bush did not come to the convention. >> right, you know, he really was an invisible figure and republicans i think made a bet -- certainly in 2010 it worked against barack obama to still be blaming george w. bush who would appear based on the things we're looking at tonight that voters were restricted to that message and still willing to hold president bush responsible and that's surprising. >> we have a pro-jikz in the state in which president obama said this is the state that gave me a chance when no one else, we have a projected winner in iowa and it is president barack obama, george. >> this is a big wi

if obama won, they had this one.f romney one, it would have been this one. >> some reaction from around the world this morning. it's proof that we were gloued to our television sets last night, watching the election returns. you can bet they were gloued at homes around the world as well, including the homes of world leaders. i'm joined now by cnn's christiane amanpour. what are you hearing from these world leaders this morning? >> you can see from our reporters around the world how popular president obama is around the world. and he has been for a long, long time. in europe, particularly, and in so many other parts. although his popularity has plummeted somewhat in the muslim world. they like stability and continuity. they've had a relationship with president obama for the past four years. in so many of the tweeted congratulations of the official congratulations through official channels that they're very pleased to be able to continue working with him. i will say, however, that many observers did look very closely a

obama's reelection is hailed a broader concerns over the u.s. policy on syria and iran as well as financial worries in europe and hopes for overcoming stumbling blocks with ties to russia. and in other news today here on r t turning up the heat thousands fed up with the in athens vent their anger this is just ahead of a crucial vote in parliament that could see the already. getting more brutal. worldwide news live from moscow this is he with me will receive. barack obama has vowed to move america forward in a victory speech to cheering supporters after winning the us election to stay in office for a second. america's incumbent leader comfortably past the two hundred seventy electoral vote threshold in what had been a hard fought campaign republican challenger mitt romney conceded defeat after losing in number of key battleground states. has been following the nervous night that gave obama four more yes. well mitt romney has accepted his loss president obama is reelected and got his supporters very excited of course but this year one could sense

just a present obama to congratulate him on his victory. for lawn excitement in the president's hometown of chicago when the president obama stories have to rule here in the uk as they expect in the next four years and why he's so happy with the work of his presidency not congress hasn't been very call for the past two years but i think he needs these four more years to continue i'm very happy with what he's trying to achieve i really need to have the help of the health care that he's going to offer and like i said we need more time than the last four years the main pledge of president obama's campaign has been to bring back the shrinking middle class to meet the economy slow recovery and gigantic deficit at a time when the gap between the rich and the poor is as high as ever in america i want to give middle class families and folks who are striving to get in the middle class some relief. because they have been hit hard the president has blamed congress for his inability to implement a more robust plan to help out the middle class president

it was not the obama team. the romney campaign may date late -- they won a 300 electoral votes by capturing historic blue presidential states like michigan. minnesota and pennsylvania. but romney made no real effort in any of those states other than perring latebreaking adds. number three, romney did the best to could. this is not to said the gop nominee ran the best campaign. he did not. the campaign was poorly waged. the former businessman allowed to many curious decisions to be made. in fact, much like hillary 2008 campaign.dozen messy up close. and labor aint dead. laver played a big role in helping obama and nevada and wisconsin as well as an ohio. the popularity of the auto bailout is hard to overstate. that a little bit from politico. now we want to hear from you. we will begin with a call from woodbridge, virginia on our line for democrats. good morning. go ahead. caller: good morning. i am calling it, as my first time calling c-span. a have been listening for several years. and i feel like i have to ma

caller: president obama." -- president obama.ost: you are one of those swing voters in a swing state. caller: i was not the only one in line yesterday. a lot of african-americans there said they were undecided and i was very shocked, i thought i was the only met romney supporter in line, but i may not have been. those other issues, abortion and all of that, with hash themselves out. it would take an actual act of the supreme court, when it came to health care and things like that. right now the economy is more important to me. host: thank you very much for the call. we will be talking politics on "and newsmakers" live at 10:00 eastern time. our congress -- our conversation will be with debbie wasserman schultz. there is this piece from "the new york times" with an interesting perspective, going back 50 years. john f. kennedy campaigned in 49 states, richard nixon visited all 50. the current contest is just as close, but candidates heavily campaigned in 10 states. there are towns in a high of the have received more attention than

president obama has 65 electoral votes and president obama with 76 votes. 270 is the magic number. the polls are still open for two more hours, but there are 14 states where the polls

that i think would have been devastation for obama. and distraction for obama. but romney played it it safe. and all of a sudden the october surprise. >> bill: okay. ohio. that's where it is. i think the winner of ohio wins the election. do you have any special feeling for that state? because i don't. i think romney will take florida and virginia and north carolina based on what i have seen. >> i agree. >> bill: ohio i can't call it? >> i think ohio goes to many romney for the reasons karl said. if you look at the early polling, obama is way behind where he was four years ago and ther thing is, you see the intensity factor in all the polls everywhere on romney's side. and republics tend to be somewhat under represented in the polls. you put them all together, romney wins ohio. one more state and he he is president. >> bill: all right. charles. appreciate it everybody will be here tuesday as i mentioned. on deck pat caddell who polled for jimmy carter and we all know how that turned out. but we have forgiven pat. he has been looking at some key states like ohio.

obama is reelected. do not suggest the gamble shouldn't be taken. rather it is playing with politics might give us cause. what is the history project about a second term for barack obama were he free elective with so few presidents having success in that time in office. one of the challenges that face those that have troubled or failed the second term and would allow others to succeed and can barack obama overcome these challenges if he is reelected to become a member of that select group of presidents the we did for the quagmire of the second term and somehow came through relatively unscathed? success in the second term doesn't imply that they're one of failures or significant stumbles. some even severe during that then venue but that time in office has the fulfillment of a significant number of the following measures of success. first, the president must provide defense against foreign or domestic threats. second of the president must retain or expand economic comfortable and more social opportunities.

obama. now, you want to know about how many tweets there have been during this election cycle? 358 million tweets altogether if you can believe that. but that doesn't mean they've all been positive, right. 98 million tweets for president obama. 45% positive, 55% negative. as we know if you are mentioned in a tweet it doesn't necessarily mean it's complimentary. when it comes to governor romney he's been in 85 million tweet, 61% negative. 39% positive and, george, you know, we were interested too in the number of people who were saying this country was on the wrong track declining, in fact. so we actually asked people about that. why do you have a change of heart? because we're ending war, not starting them and the economy has been improving, not getting worse. someone else wrote we're no longer on the wrong track. on the right track. many indicators prove as such, stocks up, corporate profits up, home values up, exports up and construction up. we're going to pay attention to what's trending

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it's one pm here in moscow you live with r t and me to bomb what's a top story barack obama has vowed to move america forward in a victory speech to cheering supporters after winning the u.s. election to stay in office for a second term. america's incumbent leader has come up with the parts of the two hundred seventy electoral votes rush hold in what has been a hard fought campaign republican challenger mitt romney conceded defeat after losing in a number of key battleground states artie's gannets as you can has been following the developments in washington. well mitt romney has accepted his loss president obama is reelected and got his supporters very excited of course but this year one could sense that overwhelming euphoria that was there four years ago where president obama was running for his first term was not quite there anymore is that that his supporters are not excited they are we saw that at the democratic rally in the president's home city of chicago but with the rest of the country feels more like. relief rather than you for you there has been quite a bit of disappointment

obama care.ssed clearly enough and specifically enough, consistently through the this campaign. paul ryan was put on the ticket and he is a budget guy. but then paul ryan was pulled back from discussing the budget. and i think issues for or catholics like the h.h.s. mandate. we talked about religious liberty that was great. you have to give it more meat. now, look, i think mitt romney ran a pretty good campaign. he had a strategy. he didn't go on a lot of fox shows. he didn't go on talk radio. it would have been nice to have him on but he had his strategy and it was play it safe. i hope play it safe is enough to beat barack obama. i think if it ends up not being successful, you will hear a lot of people saying next time you have got to take the fight on every issue, exploit every angle and not let the other side back you into a corner. >> bret: you know, laura, though after that first debate it seemed like the republic party coalesced behind mitt romney. >> laura: right, then what happened after

president obama won. rihana put one in the air for the prez. dear obama.a: what about beyonce? >> kimberly: beyonce had one, too. >> dana: something about mitchs. >> kimberly: i thought it was fantastic. >> bob: me too. >> greg: he wasn't listening. >> bob: i was. i want to say after this all is said and done how right the polls were. hour wrong people who kept dutching on polls were. take a look at four on the money for the most part. abc, nbc and pew and the ppp poll. the only ones off were the ones we kept focusing on in this show. which was gallup and rasmusse rasmussen. but nonetheless, the state polls were accurate. i give great, great deal of credit to pollsters out there. you did a good job and hit it on the money. when people say you were off and got it wrong. >> eric: you forgot one. fox news was on it as well. they went with d-6 and d-7. everybody said really? >> kimberly: fox news. i'd like to correct you. we have covered all of the polls on this show. as we do. >> greg: many polls. >> dana: ask greg. >> kimberly: polli tabis. >> bob: say this

obama was behind by five. obama rallied.t the polls yesterday and today, romney is back ahead one or two in the national. that could sway over the battleground state. >> see you tomorrow. thank you. >> pleasure. current and former intelligence officials tell fox news classified stable in benghazi libya could not defend itself against a coordinated attack. most certainly would have gone to the white house. national security staff. also today, more questions about what president obama said. immediately following the deadly assault. cbs news has released another segment of its interview with the president. conducted one day after the murder of the u.s. ambassador and three other americans. >> this morning, you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word terrornist connection with the libya attack. >> i can't believe this was a terrorist attack. >> it's too early to know exactly how this came about. what group was involved. it was an attack on americans. we are going to be working with the libyan government to make sure th

obama says for revenge, i say for love of country.nd that is the perfect contract of large, contrast of large versus small and i think it was a mistake obama will regret. >> bret: i think, charles, both campaigns tout newspaper endorsements all across the country and both campaigns have a long list. but the romney campaign has some interesting recent endorsements, especially in the state of ohio and the state of iowa. the des moines register, and now the new york daily news. >> and now, in wisconsin, where the wisconsin state journal, which is the second largest paper in the state, has in fact endorsed obama in '08 flipped. there's a study from the uc santa barbara that 11 people have switched, obama in '08, romney in 12, versus one that switched the other way. which, however you believe it, the paper's influence the electorate or not, it reflects what all of us know. we all know people who were for the republicans in '08 and who have not shifted. we know almost none who have shifted, but we know a lot of people who were for obama in

and the obama camp spent slightly more than romney's. but can enjoy the spoils of victory, at least for tonight. romney and obama campaigns burnt through a combined total of $30 a second. $2.6 million a day. and $79 million a month during this election cycle. and a lot of that money would have flowed from wall street, but on election day, that particular district of lower manhattan is actually less important than ever. that's john carney's take. if you want to respond to that or anything else you've heard on the program, you know how. e-mail us, you can also tweet that guy. >> $79 million a month. i'm guessing that's over a two-year period? >> i guess it also works out to $400 per voter, if you assume that everyone were to turn out. so for the turnout itself, that would be an even higher tally. >> and we ended up with the status quo for all that money spent. i suppose that's one way of looking at it. >>> we just showed this. european stocks have a mild risk-on view today. there's a view now. of course, the fed won't be changing its polic

i want to play a clip of the ad and how president obama responded to it. >> obama took gm and chryslernkruptcy. and sold chrysler to italians when will build jeeps in china. >> you don't scare up workers to scare up votes. that is not what it is about. >> chris: isn't that a mistake, when gm and chrysler said the ad was misleading and the fact is, that chrysler, far from shipping jobs to hoshohio is expanding operations in toledo? >> well, i find it interesting that the president would attack governor romney on that, when they put up an ad, saying that, you know, governor romney let detroit go bankrupt when that is a headline from "the new york times" op-ed. and, the second thing, is president obama talking about scaring people, when, yesterday he's out there saying, voting is the best revenge. so, it gets back to a president who says, when you can't talk about big issues, you talk about small things. so, rather than talking about a $16 trillion deficit, or 12 million jobs or putting america back to work, he is talking about big bird and he's talking about voting for revenge. so, that

obama is the favorite.ama wins i don't think that makes, you know, nate silver or myself or anyone else who stairs at the polls and says obama is favored, you know, being incredibly insightful. polls are right and pollsters get the credit. if obama loses i don't think nate silver should be panned out. i don't think either. >> never pan you. >> you could use your wizardry to answer this question. isn't it quite possible at this point in terms of electoral college when you're looking at the key battleground states the president has a lead in most them. isn't it possible the president will win the electoral college in a landslide. >> i don't think it would constitute a landslide. but it's easy to see how grab gets to 303 or 332. by bush-gore standards it's a landslide. pretty middle of the road. >> in speaking of that you have reviewed all of our map. we have made your own electoral college picks and you chose a favorite using your wizardry. >> yeah. i thought that your map actually was the best. >> hey. >> so

that is a state that obama won by 260,000 votes so they is wiped out the obama lead. >> i am not a numbers to pull out of that but i try to look at feeling. certainly, when you look at ohio in 2008, i don't think there is any republican who could have sat here with a straight face and said we got this, at least it is a dead heat going in which is what this show has said would happen, that obama would have a fairly good summer, romney would have a good fall and without have an obligate surprise which we did and everything would tighten and come down to turn out on tuesday. >> do you think the bomber jacket top gun look helps president obama? >> it changed my vote. i tell you that. he looked fantastic. i saw the price tag. it just came out of the box. the swing you are talking about, many less democrats and a lot more republicans and the only kind of swinging that bob doesn't like. another public here, i could not resist. the only joke i had. four men arrested in ohio, stealing signs. steal willing signs. they were romney signs and where did they buy the signs? they found them in a pickup tr

if obama wins those states, pretty much over. romney needs to run the table and do well in ohio and pennsylvania. those are must-wins for him. >> charles, when you look at both campaigns from start to finish, what do you think has run the better campaign? >> i think that this campaign has been what most campaigns are, a series of ups and downs for both sides, and so there have been some performance issues and the first debate was a performance issue for barack obama. what mitt romney has not been able to do has been to get enough momentum to ever get himself over a hump and get shooting himself in the foot either by things coming out he didn't time or saying things in realtime that did him real damage. so mitt romney was never able to take advantage of a bit of momentum and ride that to a leading position over barack obama. and i think that -- at the end of the day, that will be a real issue that republicans will look bat and say we did not put forth the best candidate to run against barack obama in this election. >> carol, do yo

obama. because he has 237 electoral votes that he is likely to get, he has more pathways to 270. in fact, his easiest route would be to start with florida then he would need just one of the remaining eight battleground states to get to 270. mitt romney has a tougher path. for mitt romney, if he were to win florida, and he were also to win ohio, north carolina and virginia, the four big prizes of the evening, that would still only get him to 266. then he would have to win one of the remaining five battleground states to get to that number, 270. >> pelley: john, thank you. essentially the states are given electoral votes as a function of their population. the larger the population of the state, the more electoral votes they have. anthony mason is watching our exit polling today. anthony has been looking at all of the information coming in from the various exit polls. we've been talking to voters, anthony as they left the polls in every state all day long. what are you hearing so far? >> well,

obama yes dicen. latino, por varias razones la polÍtica republicana de la inmigraciÓn es quizÁ la razÓn principal, espero jvre se trabaje juntos, no se puede ignorar lo que aso en quince aÑos. creo que le pasÓ la cuenta al partido republicano, y le quitÓ la victoria por temas que pudieron estar mejor en esta noche. >>> no dudo el anÁlisis numerico de son sergio, el de la retÓrica me parece errado, estoy dispuesto a atacar a alabama, a arizona y mÁs, pero el presidente deportÓ a mÁs personas que cualquier otro presidente en la historia, entendamos. >>> no le pasaron la cuenta. >>> no, porque los republicanos primero no quieren hablar del tema, es culpa de los republicanos, y tambiÉn muchos grupos liberales que apoyan la reforma migratoria, trataron al presidente con guantes de seda, no lo criticaron como lo criticaron a bush con redadas. >>> lo que se necesita es una reflexiÓn, una autoreflexion al partido republicano. >>> un momento con fÉlix. >>> tenemos que trabajar. >>> sin duda. >>> el estancamien

barack obama won't be president next time. and it's a safe bet republicans won't put up a black person as their nominee. just looking at who's in the bull pen. how will both parties approach the race question? jelena, what do you say? >> they have to do it by not alienating people of color and women and young voters. that's what the republicans -- that's where they went wrong in this election cycle. they said insensitive things about race, they said insensitive things about race, and they said -- >> certain actors within the party made those statements that. doesn't reflect the whole party. >> that was the party platform. >> the whole party's based on one statement? then senator louise lucas is representative of the entire -- >> the republican party platform has language which is demon strablly anti-woman. it doesn't have personhood language in the republican party platform? >> what i'm hearing her say -- >> you're alienating certain segments of the american public. and you're not going to be able to win elections. so going fo

in a conversation with editors at the des moines register, obama said -- obama was right. latino voters turned out in record numbers on tuesday and exit polls show obama won 71% of the latino vote. mitt romney won just 27%, less than any presidential candidates published any republican candidate in 16 years. in 2004, george w. bush won 44% of the latino vote. for the first time, latinos made up more than 10% of the nation's electorate. obama's a one huge margins of african-american and asian- american voters. on wednesday, senate majority leader harry reid called the democrats the party of diversity. and vowed to bring up an immigration reform bill next year. he said republicans continue to oppose immigration reform, it's at their peril. meanwhile on the state level, maryland voters affirmed the dream act on tuesday, allowing undocumented immigrants to receive in-state tuition. to talk more about the latino vote, we're joined by "democracy now!" co-host and new york daily news columnist juan gonzalez. he is author of a number of books including, "harvest of empire: a histo

this election was not an endorsement of president obama's policies. 49% said they wanted obama care repealed. >> on taxes it's one big deal. the president campaigned to raise taxes, the first since before harry truman to win re-election to do that and senate railses were also decided on that metric as well. republicans have to listen to that at some level. bob? >> he won all these battleground states, but he almost lost the popular vote. i mean so people are going to step back and they're going to say, why should i cooperate with him? we talked about this last night, norah, you have a congress with approval rating down there, you know, down there. yes they all got reelected. >> will the republican members of congress also look and see that, wow, we lost amongst hispanics, we lost among moderates and independents, those should be areas, that republicans can't continue to win unless they change. >> depends where your self-interest lies. if you're a national republican you think we no longer can win with the game plan we have. we have to find a way to deal with the largest growing mino

but is that a great slogan for obama? obama, i could do worse.u are lost, generally you stop the car, you turn around. what we need is somebody who can read the map of the united states instead of hugging the globe. >> bob: if you read the map at the united states, you look at three states, florida, ohio, virginia. obama is winning in all three of those states now and by some margin, number one. number two, the job approval rating has been up over 50% now for four months. >> dana: that is not accurate. >> andrea: another thing, after all the negative ads, bob, mitt romney's favorability jumped up higher. the negative advertisements to paint him as a felon, bully and tax evade dor haven't worked. >> bob: his momentum stopped last week. >> andrea: how do you see that? early voting -- >> bob: wait. early voting -- >> andrea: significantly gone in his favor. don't give me that. early voting was so prominent for president obama. and liberals took the network touting it in 2008. >> bob: we'll talk about this after tuesday. >> eric: one more number came

almost cost president obama his re-election. he essentially said during his speech last night that he got the message loud and clear. there were also some personal noemts to his speech. he told the crowd publicly how much he loves his wife, how proud he is of his daughters. also said that they will not be getting a dog this year. lynn, the first family is staying here in chicago. they are heading home a little later on today. lynn? >> one dog will do. that was nbc's kristen welker. now to governor romney, the man who out lasted every other republican challenger but in the end could not defeat this sitting president. chris jansing is in boston this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. nearly seven years after it began, mitt romney's quest for the presidency ended in this ballroom with a gracious speech. in the end he won 24 states, but only one of those battleground states we've been talking about so much over the last several months, north carolina. he had begun the day believing that he could and would

obama and the first lady arrived at home in chicago. the president wrapped hip his campaign with a visit to ohio and other swing states and criticized his opponents economic policies. he said romney would only increase the gap between rich and moor. romney voted in belmont, massachusetts. he, too, visited ohio and other swing states at the end of the campaign. he told voters obama failed in his efforts to fix the economy. we're drawing on the projections of our partners at u.s. broadcaster abc news. before the ballots are counted they're using exit polls to project the results state by state and analyze the counting and feed that into the model. we'll update the electoral votes projected for each candidate and we're starting to see those tick up. millions of americans get their say in who becomes president. what happens after that seems like a riddle to some. thanks for joining us. how do election officials determine a winner? >> yes, katherine. well, today 50 states in the u.s. and district of columbia, washington, thats, will be votin

romney said he would pray for president obama's success. >> i have just called president obama to congratulatecampaign also deserve congratulations. i wish all of them well, but particularly the president, the first lady, and their daughters. this is a time of great challenges for america. and i pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation. the nation, as you know, is at a critical point. at a time like this, we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work, and we look to democrats and republicans and government at all levels to put the people before politics. i believe in america. i believe in the people of america. >>> americans also weighed in on two social issues. voters in colorado and washington state legalized recreational use of marijuana. adults will be allowed to possess small amounts of pot, but it will be taxed. >> that's going to set up a showdown with the federal government, which outlaws the drug. massachusetts also approved marijuana for medical use. >>> meanwhile maryland and maine

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