Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Columnist's post-election wrap up includes a mea culpa.
What I Got Right: The Electoral College numbers. What Else I Got Right: Not much. With very little time to process it and absolutely no time to dig through exit poll cross tabs, here’s what I saw last night. First, while I got the Electoral College vote numbers almost exactly right, I got the candidate completely wrong. As predicted, many swing states were close, but in the end almost everyone one broke for the incumbent. From a political analysis point of view, this is a surprise for many reasons. Traditionally, when the incumbent has approval ratings as low as Barack Obama’s, he loses. Traditionally, an election like this brings greater turnout from the opposition. Traditionally, late-deciders always break for the challenger. Tradition …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
President Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.
President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden were re-elected Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan. NBC News called the presidential election for Obama around 11:15 EST. The president sent a message on Twitter at 10:14 saying simply, "This happened because of you. Thank you." The Obama campaign won the most expensive presidential race ever, with both parties raising about $2.6 billion. The race was filled with negative campaigning on both sides, from President Obama attacking Romney’s business experience with Bain Capital to Romney lambasting Obama’s handling of the economy. The race tightened during the final months of the campaign, with gaffes and surges …
Voters in New Hampshire on Tuesday cast their ballot for President Obama, giving him the state's four electoral votes.
President Barack Obama won New Hampshire's four electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney. CBS News called New Hampshire for Obama around 9:30 p.m. Soon after, CNN called New Hampshire for Obama too, eliciting cheers and tears from supporters at the campaign's election night party at the Radisson in Manchester. Obama campaign volunteer Jonny Glyn led the crowd in song, singing, "There's only one Barack Obama... Walking in Obama wonderland." With 64 percent of precincts reporting, WMUR reports that Obama is up 53 percent to 46 percent. NBC News called the presidential race for Obama around 11:15 a.m. In the 2008 presidential election, New Hampshire also voted Democratic, with 384,591 voters casting ballots for the Obama-…
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Updates on the 2012 federal and state elections will be posted here throughout the day. Connect with us on Twitter too at #PatchElections.
[Stay with Patch as we update this article with news and information from the polls and live election results as they come in.] Obama-Biden Maggie Hassan Carol Shea-Porter * With more than 60 percent of precincts reporting 1:45 a.m.: The Associated Press has declared Democrat Carol Shea-Porter the winner over Republican Frank Guinta in the 1st District Congressional race. 11:59 p.m.: Democrat Annie Kuster has been declared the winner over Republican Charles Bass in the 2nd District Congressional race. 11:39 p.m.: Barack Obama has been re-elected president, according to NBC News. 9:55 p.m.: CBS News and NBC have called New Hampshire for President Obama. 9:44 p.m.: Romney has taken Amherst, by a total of 3,906 to 3,501. 9:33 p.m.: Meanwhile…
Presidential candidates made dozens of stops in the area this campaign season.
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney campaigned in New Hampshire numerous times during their 2012 presidential campaign, and Exeter and the greater Seacoast area saw plenty of them. As Exeter voters head to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots, they and millions of other Americans will finally decide who they want to occupy the Oval Office for the next four years. Now that all of the campaigning and political television ads are coming to a close, the final decision rests with each voter inside the voting booth. This is especially true for the so-called undecided voters that Obama and Romney wanted to win over heading into election day. The above images are from the candidates' visits to the Seacoast area, …
GOP presidential hopeful, with special guest, 'rocks' the vote in New Hampshire.
MANCHESTER – Kid Rock got the party started, but the well-known 'Rebel Soul' singer was but an appetizer to the main dish of the evening. And when Mitt Romney took the stage, that's exactly what he did. He dished out anecdote after anecdote and zinger after zinger, all directed at Barack Obama and all in an effort to paint one final, lasting portrait in the minds of New Hampshire voters. "Do you want real change?" Romney asked a capacity crowd at Manchester's Verizon Wireless Arena. "Now, President Obama promised change, but he couldn't deliver it. I not only promised change, I have a record of achieving it." Romney, while toting his record of various business and political successes, hammered away at what he labeled the president's …
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Monday, November 5, 2012
Thousands brave near-freezing temperatures, line up around Verizon Wireless Arena to rally for Mitt on eve of election.
MANCHESTER – Stuart Bentall was hoping for change when Barack Obama was elected president four years ago. "People were fed up. People in the state of New Hampshire wanted change. I was one of the people who wanted change," he said. "I think you get to a breaking point where you want to believe. I think a lot of people got sucked into believing." But Bentall – a Brookline resident who waited in a line that was double-wrapped around Manchester's Verizon Wireless Arena – said he has experienced nothing but disappointment the last four years, and he believes when the votes are tabulated Tuesday night, the result will reflect that the majority of New Hampshire and the country has experienced a similar letdown. "This country needs jobs. We need …
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
UNH political science professor Dante Scala tells us which towns he sees as bellwethers for who New Hampshire will go for in the presidential election.
In every big election, there are towns prognosticators look to as indicators of how a particular state, or even the entire country, might vote. These bellwether towns can provide an early sign of what the final result is going to be. We asked University of New Hampshire political science professor Dante Scala to tell us which Granite State towns he thinks will be bellwethers in Tuesday's presidential election between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Working-class Rochester and other northern Strafford County towns like Farmington, Strafford and Northwood were among the ones he mentioned. He also cited Seacoast communities like Hampton, North Hampton, Rye and Stratham as potential bellwethers, because they're a bit well-off, but …
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Vote in our poll, and share your thoughts in the comments field below.
A Washington Post/ABC poll released this week showed that 80 percent of voters feel President Obama has done a good job dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Even New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – a staunch supporter of Mitt Romney – praised Obama's response to the storm, which devastated parts of New Jersey and New York and caused serious damage in many other states, including New Hampshire. Obama also received the endorsement of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday, with Bloomberg citing Obama's handling of Hurricane Sandy as one of the main reasons he decided to support the president. Meanwhile, Romney's previous pledge to abolish FEMA hasn't helped him in the wake of the storm. What do you think? Will Hurricane …
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Not taking NH's 4 electoral votes for granted, the presidential candidate with a second home in the swing state delivered part of a closing argument Saturday in Portsmouth.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Mitt Romney returned to New Hampshire, where he officially kicked off his presidential campaign, aiming to shore up support and influence any undecided voters before the polls open Tuesday. "New Hampshire got me the Republican nomination and New Hampshire's going to get me the White House," Romney said Saturday at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease. As Republicans in the early morning crowd chanted, "Three more days, three more days, three more days," Romney urged them to make the most of those three days and encourage neighbors to support the GOP ticket. In remarks that focused primarily on the economy, Romney compared his record with President Obama's first term. "He said he was going to be the post-partisan …
LJoel Hackbart
11:48 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
Bushes "victory" in 2000 {Gore won the popular vote] was called a "mandate" Bushes "victory"[despite the voting irregularities in Ohio} was called a "mandate" by the republicans. But a near 3 million vote victory by Obama? Oh no. Not a mandate. No way. No how. It was way too close to say that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more ›