Obama wins four more years

By Howard Kurtz

From The Daily Beast

Barack Obama resoundingly won another four years in the White House after Mitt Romney failed to capture a single swing state and the president captured more than 300 electoral votes.

It was an impressive victory for a president saddled with an anemic economy who struggled all year to hit 50 percent in the polls. But in the end, Romney fell short, crushing Republican hopes of ousting an incumbent they viewed as ripe for defeat.

Indeed, even after Fox News put Obama over the top by calling Ohio for the president about 11:20 – as did the other networks – Fox analyst Karl Rove refused to accept the projection, arguing with his anchors on the air. For all the focus on Ohio, Obama didn’t need it in the end, and even carried the highly contested battleground of Virginia, according to network projections after 12:30 a.m. The president also took Colorado.

Obama swept the Northeast, Upper Midwest and West Coast en route to victory, with Romney seizing the South and much of the Mountain West. 

With the president carrying such states as Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, Maryland, Illinois, even Paul Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin, he got off to a strong start. Romney took a broad swath from Texas and Louisiana to South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas and North and South Dakota but failed to steal a single blue state.