Vote counting update thread

[Eraserhead]

Looks like Romney really might round down to 47% by the time this is over with.

lol.

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New York could still swing to Obama too! It's so close!

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So turnout isn't going to end up being down very much from '08 after all, eh?

And Romney's gonna end up losing by close to 4%. Not exactly a very close election then, even going by just the PV.

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Percentage-wise (rounded up), is it safe yet to conclude that President Obama won with 52% of the popular vote, and Romney is now Mr. 47%?  How close are we? 

The final percentage will be about 51.0-47.2.

Sounds about right. I'd be shocked if Obama rounds up to 52%.

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After counting provisionals in Ohio today, Obama's lead has jumped from about 2% to 2.72%! And Columbus provisionals are apparently still not counted.

Obama is also up to 50.88% nationally, leading Romney by 3.48%.

Hopefully we can climb to at least 3.5 points.

That's a given.

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So I'm guessing there aren't enough votes left for Obama to hit or pass 51.00% outright?

That and whether NY will swing to Obama (vs. 2008) are the two major things I'm still wondering about.

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Is Rhode Island done? That's another one that's so close to swinging to Obama...

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Yeah, Rhode Island is done. So far, 33 states have certified.

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Ohio is such a disappointment... It was predicted to be 1 to 2 points more democratic than the nation as a whole, and will end 0.6-0.8 points more rep instead.

Even Sherrod Brown's result was underwhelming...

What was the final result in the Senate race?

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Still not a bad drop-off at all. Many people were expecting it to be much worse. I certainly was earlier in the year.

Felt like '96 for a while but it ended up becoming '04+.