Well it looks like Obama will get 4 more years. Obama got 303 electoral votes compared to Mitt Romney's 206. Technically there's still 29 electoral votes to be assigned from Florida, but the race was so close there that the numbers haven't yet been confirmed.
Interestingly, Obama also carried the popular vote in the country, but only by a slim margin. Obama got a total of 60,481,241 votes while Romney received 57,678,067. For a while last night, CNN was projecting Obama as the winner, but the popular vote still favoured Romney. What's interesting is that Obama won by a large margin when it comes to the electoral votes, but clearly, based on the actual number of votes, The United States is actually quite divided.
However, I've said it in my previous post, and I'll say it again. Obama is the right decision. In the last four years, there has been steady improvements in the American economy. He's accomplished an unprecedented amount of health care reform, and he's ended two wars. In his second term, it looks like he's going to continue working on the economy, while tackling the immigration issues that plague the United States. By the end of his 8 year presidency, I think Obama will have a legacy that his nation can be proud of.
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