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Trump seeks to regain political initiative as Republicans gather for Charlotte convention Oklahoma, Utah, and West Virginia had all counties go to Romney. The would-be vice president has deep personal and financial links with Big Tech – but some believe she could bite the hand that fed her
State changes to voter registration and electoral rulesState changes to voter registration and electoral rules
Trump may lose the election, but the American culture war will continue to rage Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee warns there will be 'a real price to pay' if Russia continues to interfere
Democrat Convention: Joe Biden courts the John McCain vote as left-wingers banished
Results by state and the District of Columbia, scaled by number of Electors per state. Donald Trump’s recent suggestion that the November election be postponed was too much for even many of his most obedient supporters Republican convention scaled back because of Covid-19 and delegates face repeated virus testing
Obama owns the all-time record for votes in a single election as well in 2008.
Could an army of TikTok teens really bring down the president?
Popular vote by county shaded on a scale from red/Republican to blue/Democratic. Voters are scared to reveal their political allegiance for fear of being censured or even sacked
Clinton says Trump will continue to 'blame, bully and belittle' if given a second term
Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote.
The 2012 United States presidential election was the 57th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.The incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama, and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, were elected to a second term.They defeated the Republican ticket of businessman and former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Representative Paul Ryan of …
Romney's strongest improvements over McCain were in Utah and Appalachia, while Obama's strongest gains were in Alaska, the New York area, and the Gulf states.
As Joe Biden prepares to pick his (female) running mate, Rosa Prince looks at whether the US is any readier for a woman in the White House However, Venezuela and some other states had tempered reactions. Postpone the election? The campaigns focused heavily on domestic issues, and debate centered largely around sound responses to the Obama defeated Romney, winning a majority of both the In 2011, several state legislatures passed new voting laws, especially pertaining to voter identification, with the stated purpose of combating With an incumbent president running for re-election against Candidates with considerable name recognition who entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in the early stages of the primary campaign included It became clear at around this point in the nomination process that while Romney was considered to be the likely nominee by the Republican establishment, a large segment of the Due to a number of scandals, Cain withdrew just before the end of the year, after having gotten on the ballot in several states.A number of candidates dropped out at this point in the nomination process. Hawaii, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont had all counties go to Obama.
The Obamas and the Bidens walk on stage at the election night victory celebration at Former Governor Mitt Romney meets with President Barack Obama at the White House after the 2012 presidential election. The Obamas and the Bidens embrace following the television announcement of their victory. Joe Biden says four black women being considered for his vice presidential pick ", declares Kanye West at his rally
Results by county. As Joe Biden announces his running mate - potentially the first female, black VP - Rosa Prince analyses the immediate impact ... Facebook played a large role in the US election, but Mark Zuckerberg is not engaging with claims that it helped Donald Trump win. "Abortion should be legal because guess what?
Blue denotes counties that voted more Democratic.
Joe Biden warns of Chinese interference in presidential election How did a troop of TikTok users and ‘K-pop stans’ – fans of South Korean pop music - become one of the greatest political forces of 2020?
All other candidates were on the ballots of fewer than 10 states, 100 electors, and less than 20% of voters nationwide.
After the networks called Ohio (the state that was arguably the most critical for Romney, as no Republican has ever won the Presidency without carrying it) for Obama at around 11:15 PM Despite public polling showing Romney behind Obama in the swing states of Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New Hampshire, tied with Obama in Virginia, and just barely ahead of Obama in Florida, the Romney campaign said they were genuinely surprised by the loss, having believed that public polling was oversampling Democrats.On November 30, 2012, it was revealed that shortly before the election, internal polling done by the Romney campaign had shown Romney ahead in Colorado and New Hampshire, tied in Iowa, and within a few points of Obama in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Ohio.Foreign leaders reacted with both positive and mixed messages. Primaries, Caucuses, and Political Conventions. Bachmann withdrew after finishing sixth in the Iowa caucuses,Santorum, who had previously run an essentially one-state campaign in Iowa, was able to organize a national campaign after his surprising victory there. Trump golfs' Mail-in voting has spread as states respond to the public health threat posed by Covid-19 'A barrier-breaker that can take on the biggest jerks in the Trump administration'; why bottles are popping in the homes of the tech set Why we can't get enough of Kamala Harris in Silicon Valley
Trump's planned order on 'Dreamer' immigrants will not include amnesty, says White House Moderate Kamala Harris is a safe choice for the Democrats
Donald Trump's postmaster general halts cuts amid outcry over mail-in voting
Joe Biden's vice president nomination made her name by carefully weaving between moderate Democrats and radical socialists