Update presidential polls 2012

See photos of voters from across the country. Room stunned. Theyre watching images of cheers at obama hq in big screens. Painful to watch the room watch fox. Perhaps one of the hardest parts of running for office is giving a gracious concession speech. Earlier this week Biden predicted Ohio will win the election for President Obama. Read about that rally here. When it comes to Florida, I am seeing real signs of problems for Mitt Romney. Bush carried by seven points in Right now Romney is trailing Barack Obama 46 to Romney is losing in Hillsborough County.

So why is the race still tied in Florida? If you take a look at Miami-Dade county, this is a huge Obama county. This is one that he won by 16 points last time and only 40 percent of precincts have reported.

Senate over Republican Todd Akin. Paul Ryan is not with Mitt Romney. They had pasta and Caesar salad for dinner. Below is the very long list of family that Paul Ryan is currently with, per the Ryan campaign. Paul Ryan and Janna Ryan. Read more about what a Warren win means here. Senate as one of the most high profile Democrats in the nation and also one of the most liberal members of the U.

Twitter reports that they hit million election-related tweets just after 10 p. Senate over incumbent Republican Scott Brown. See how the race is shaping up at the full Electoral map here. She also talked about top Twitter trends tonight. Among them were Stayinline , a Twitter hashtag that makes reference to the long lines voters have seen at the polls today.

Read more on the social media of Election Night here. Supporters have over the past hour been pouring into the space here — a cavernous cement-floored convention hall. In the space…. Two facing sets of bleachers create a more intimate stadium-style corral in front of an elevated stage and catwalk jutting out into the crowd. The presidential blue goose podium is center stage — w teleprompters — but no presidential seal hanging as of yet.

Very idealistic stuff w Potus rhetoric and new-agey, upbeat tunes. Also noteworthy here — dozens of Obama campaign advance staffers, event planners, media handlers from the states — mostly young somethings just out of college — have converged here for the final night.

A clear sense of nostalgia, idealism and giddy excitement among them. Senate over Republican Josh Mandel. Romney is from Michigan and his father was governor there. Romney campaigned in Pennsylvania just today. ABC projects Romney will win 4 of 5 electoral votes in Negbraksa. In , President Obama won Cuyahoga by nearly 40 percentage points and he is performing strongly again there tonight in the early tallies. Shortly before 8 p. Preliminary exit poll results show that in Ohio, Romney leads Obama by 10 points among independents — a big number especially considering that in Obama had an 8-point lead over John McCain in Ohio among the same nonaligned voters.

Read more from Negrin here. Florida is one of the key states to watch when it comes to the early vote and here you see an advantage for President Obama by seven points. He simply does much better among early voters. We went back to and looked at the returns in Ohio as they were coming in. Around p. He did not win Ohio by 33 points. He won by 5 points. No one went to court asking for a late poll closing, but under Virginia state law, voters in line by the 7 p. Board of Election officials point to big voter turnout for the three-hour plus long lines.

Florida — Obama seems to be holding his strength among Hispanics — a key Florida voting group. Preliminary exit polls suggest that about one in six Florida voters are Latino 16 percent , similar to , and they are voting for Obama over Romney by comparable margins to percent.

Obama lost this group in , though by a smaller margin. As recently as the Clinton presidency Florida seniors were with the Democrats. But Florida seniors are more likely to put their trust in Romney when it comes to their key health program: 56 percent say Romney would do a better job handling Medicare, 38 percent Obama.

But on the flip side, the former Massachusetts governor is pulling even among independents, a group Obama won by single digits last time. Preliminary exit poll results shows the area at 52 percent for Romney and 48 percent for Obama. We estimate 46 million people voted early — that is 36 percent of the electorate. While a seven point spread may sound like a big deal, keep in mind that four years ago, Obama won the early vote by 18 percent.

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