Vote counting update thread

[dspNY]

Obama's margin of victory in Colorado (now 5.17%) is greater than his margin in PA (5.02%). This means that at this point, Pennsylvania was the tipping point state (that gave Obama his 270th electoral vote).

That means the tipping point in this election was a state that the Republicans haven't won for President since the 1980s, one of the Kerry states, and a state where the Dems have a registration advantage of over 1 million

[dspNY]

Some of the Ohio counties have started posting their final results.  Not sure if it'll be indicative of the whole state but Butler Co went from 62.43-36.20 Romney election night to 61.68-36.58 in final results  (final results include write ins)

In relative small Pike county Obama trailed by 45 votes on election night and in the official count he lost by one vote, better than 2008 when Obama lost it by 129 votes in 2008

Obama lost Pike County OH by one vote? That has to be the closest county in the country

[dspNY]

Virginia looks like the bellwether (or closest to it) for the second straight election, as it will produce almost exactly the margin of victory for Obama as his nationwide popular vote (around 3.7-4.0%).

Colorado was the tipping point state that gave Obama his 270th EV in 2008, it looks like they will retain their tipping point status. For a long time, it looked like Pennsylvania would be the tipping point state, but Colorado is edging PA out by a couple hundredths of a percent