When the dust settled in the early hours of Wednesday morning, President Obama bested Mitt Romney with 303 electoral votes to the Governor's 206.
While most of the polls indicated a tight race in the weeks preceding the General Election, the GOP candidate failed to secure crucial swing states as his campaign sprinted towards the White House. The demographic of the American electorate is changing, and minorities' voices are a stronger force than any other time in political history. A record number of Hispanic and Black voters turned out at the polls on Tuesday and tipped the scales comfortably in favor of the incumbent.
Officials are still counting votes in Florida, however Romney's campaign advisor for the state conceded the state on Thursday, stating: "We thought based on our polling and range of organization we had done what we needed to win. Obviously, we didn't, and for that I and every other operative in Florida has a sick feeling that we left something on the table. I can assure you this won't happen again," reports the Miami Herald.
With the buffer of Florida's 29 electoral votes, Obama's final electoral total equals 332.
Below are the tallies for both red and blue states.
Obama: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Hawaii, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida
Romney: Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alaska,
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