Politics

After calling the state of Ohio for President Obama, NBC, CNN, CBS and others are predicting that he has won re-election. “This happened because of you. Thank you,” Obama tweeted at 11:14 p.m. ET. From NBC: One after another, crucial states that had been deemed toss-ups before Election Day fell into the president’s hands: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New…

Mitt Romney’s share of the white vote in the final pre-election poll — about 57.6 percent — is one reason to be confident in a win for Barack Obama, the American Prospect’s Jamelle Bouie says. In a blog post today, he suggests that the Republican candidate would have been wise to put more effort into reaching…

Twenty-one-year-old Galicia Malone wasn’t going to let anything — even childbirth — stop her from casting a vote this morning. She swung by her polling place midlabor on her way to a local hospital, NBC Chicago reports. Cook County Clerk David Orr said Malone’s contractions were five minutes apart when she showed up around 8:30…

Sounding hoarse and tired but determined, President Barack Obama delivered his final campaign speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday night, announcing, “I’ve come back to Iowa one more time to ask for your vote.” “Help us finish what we started, because this is where our movement of change began,” he told the battleground state crowd.…

(The Root) — Recall some of the most disturbing criticisms of Barack Obama’s presidency that you’ve heard over the past four years. Not the ones about his policy positions, but the racially coded attacks about laziness and anger; the out-of-control, totally false allegations about socialism; and the line-crossing assaults on the first lady’s physical appearance.…

Election Day conversation will understandably be dominated by one major question: Which presidential candidate will accumulate enough electoral votes to be declared the winner? But beyond Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, and even beyond the federal, state and local candidates, voters will decide on 174 state ballot questions with implications for everything from in-state tuition…