Election Night Results

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No surprises as of 7:00 pm central time.

Kentucky, SC, Georgia, OK, Miss, WV, TN, AL and Indiana have been called for Romney and Vermont has been called for Obama. Avowed Socialist Bernie Sanders has won his race there, as well.

Obama has also  won MA, NJ, IL, RI, DC, NY.

CAC at The Ace of Spades decision desk is tabulating results and posting them here as soon as he is  confident a state will break one way or another. He’s looking at either from exit poll data and initial returns or the raw data trickling in before he calls the state.

Called states in the Senate and President race will be colored in solid, and their electoral votes will then be allocated to the winner.

What to watch out for:
Two big things.
Ohio’s early vote and absentees are going to go online first, per the Secretary of State. Since this bloc favors Obama tremendously, don’t croak if Obama comes out of the gate in the Buckeye with a large lead. Truth be told, Strickland seemed to be putting on a fight in 2010, but lost narrowly after all the exurban and rural votes came in.

That brings me to the second thing, Pennsylvania. If the state goes to Romney, it won’t be obvious for a very long time. In 2010, Toomey trailed for much of the evening as the Philadelphia and Allegheny numbers flooded in, only to be eaten away by the central and suburban county votes. The same is likely to happen tonight as well.

So far, Virginia is looking good for Romney. North Carolina was leaning Romney but the state has been riddled with Democrat voter shenanigans, and as it stands at 7:20 central – it’s looking good for Obama.
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More Election Night Blogging at The Other McCain: ELECTION NIGHT RESULTS HQ and Red State and Weasel Zippers:2012 Elections Live Thread…

Fox News Election results, here.

Ohio is giving me a stomach ache.

7:20: CAC has called Missouri for Romney – no surprise, there.

Ace: Romney Wins Tennessee; No Call Yet On Any Of the Tightly Contested States
Karl Rove Thinks FL, VA, and Even OH Look Strong for Romney

7:50: AR called for Romney.

North Carolina’s looking much better for Romney – VA continues to look good.

FL is neck and neck – Obama slightly ahead.

8:00: Romney takes TX, ND, SD, Nebraska, WY and KS called for Romney. Michigan has been called for Obama.

8:15: Heartache – PA called for Obama.

A snapshot of Missouri races as of 8:15 pm central:

President, Vice President			(42 of 3394 Precincts Reported)
Barack Obama, Joe Biden	Democrat	12,565	37.7%
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan	Republican	20,135	60.4%
Gary Johnson, James P. Gray	Libertarian	522	1.6%
Virgil Goode, Jim Clymer	Constitution	105	0.3%
	Total Votes	33,327

Office / Candidate Name	Party	Votes	% of Votes
U. S. Senator			(42 of 3387 Precincts Reported)
Claire McCaskill	Democrat	16,399	49.9%
Todd Akin	Republican	14,318	43.5%
Jonathan Dine	Libertarian	2,178	6.6%
William Dean	Write-in	0	0.0%
Bernard J. (Spark) Duraski, Jr.	Write-in	0	0.0%
Bernie Mowinski	Write-in	0	0.0%
Charlie L. Bailey	Write-in	0	0.0%
Arnie C. (AC) Dienoff	Write-in	0	0.0%
Ted Kimzey	Write-in	0	0.0%
	Total Votes	32,895

Office / Candidate Name	Party	Votes	% of Votes
Governor			(42 of 3380 Precincts Reported)
Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon	Democrat	16,798	50.9%
David (Dave) Spence	Republican	15,226	46.1%
Jim Higgins	Libertarian	1,002	3.0%
Leonard Steinman	Write-in	0	0.0%
Ronald E. Levy	Write-in	0	0.0%
	Total Votes	33,026

Office / Candidate Name	Party	Votes	% of Votes
Lt. Governor			(42 of 3380 Precincts Reported)
Susan Montee	Democrat	13,976	43.0%
Peter Kinder	Republican	17,000	52.2%
Matthew Copple	Libertarian	950	2.9%
Cynthia L. Davis	Constitution	614	1.9%
Charles R. Jackson	Write-in	0	0.0%
	Total Votes	32,540

Office / Candidate Name	Party	Votes	% of Votes
Secretary of State			(42 of 3380 Precincts Reported)
Jason Kander	Democrat	14,165	44.1%
Shane Schoeller	Republican	16,638	51.8%
Cisse W. Spragins	Libertarian	925	2.9%
Justin Harter	Constitution	379	1.2%
	Total Votes	32,107

Office / Candidate Name	Party	Votes	% of Votes
Treasurer			(42 of 3380 Precincts Reported)
Clint Zweifel	Democrat	14,505	45.5%
Cole McNary	Republican	15,971	50.1%
Sean O’Toole	Libertarian	1,434	4.5%
	Total Votes	31,910

Office / Candidate Name	Party	Votes	% of Votes
Attorney General			(42 of 3380 Precincts Reported)
Chris Koster	Democrat	16,847	52.3%
Ed Martin	Republican	14,173	44.0%
Dave Browning	Libertarian	1,209	3.8%

U.S. Representative – District 5 (1 of 387 Precincts Reported)
Emanuel Cleaver II Democrat 1,248 52.1%
Jacob Turk Republican 1,084 45.2%
Randall (Randy) Langkraehr Libertarian 65 2.7%
Andrew Thomas Write-in 0 0.0%
Andrew Feagle Write-in 0 0.0%

9:00 pm central:

Ace:Was Wisconsin Called Too Soon?

Both CAC and now Patrick Ruffini are talking about strong numbers for Romney/Ryan there.

Just throwing that out there. The Decision Desk is keeping Wisconsin uncalled.

I was thinking the same thing.

ALSO: Some Good News: Both Romney and Obama Camps Expect Romney to Carry Florida

So, there’s that.

And I think we’ll carry VA and NC, too.

Turk has taken the lead in Dist. 5  MO:

U.S. Representative – District 5			(29 of 387 Precincts Reported)
Emanuel Cleaver II	Democrat	12,943	46.3%
Jacob Turk	Republican	14,031	50.2%

9:30: Turk still leading 49% – 47%

9:48: a big change- Jackson County must have come in:

Emanuel Cleaver II	Democrat	83,554	65.8%
Jacob Turk	Republican	39,910	31.4%

Ohio has been called for Obama, but Carl Rove is disputing it.

Still, it looks like Obama has won reelection with a combination of voter fraud, campaign finance fraud, disenfranchisement of the military vote and a hopelessly obtuse electorate.

RS McCain says it best: AMERICA HOPELESSLY DOOMED

We really are screwed. We’re going to go straight downhill – Obama has no solutions to our problems. Everything he does makes things worse. He’s hopelessly corrupt – he has no compunction about lying to our faces on a daily bases – we have to put up with another four years of that? The constant lies – the corruption – the wanton destruction of the US economy while they spend exorbitant amounts of taxpayer money on their own expensive vacations? What do we have to look forward to?: A blizzard of new regulations to finish off the coal industry, ObamaCare, taxagedden, the corrupt DOJ, Obama’s next Supreme Court picks, and a continued assault on religious liberties – Oh my God.

Message transmitted to Vladamir: Obama can be “flexible”, now.

God help us.

Does blue state America understand what they have done?

Stanley Kurtz: Get Ready for Obama’s First Term:

The fact that Obama has only very narrowly secured reelection–unusual, since reelected presidents normally expand their initial electoral margins–might seem to contradict this high-conflict scenario. You can certainly argue that a barely-reelected president would be smart to pull in his horns and govern from the middle. Yet that’s not who Barack Obama is, and it’s certainly not the premise upon which he ran his campaign. Obama took the intentionally risky path of alienating half the country with an in-your-face negative campaign because he believed that demographics now allow him to cobble together a leftist majority in support of transformative change. Whether that demographic vision is valid or not, Obama and his advisors believe that it is, and so will govern with relative disregard for opposition, however vocal.

The reelection of a Republican House of Representatives might also seem to have a moderating impact on the president, and to a limited degree it does. Yet Obama has cast aside conventional restraints on executive power with his pre-election orders on welfare reform and immigration. He will thus interpret reelection as a license to rule by executive order–well beyond the traditional limits on executive power. In the absence of intense populist pressure on a Congress facing another Tea Party electoral wave in 2014, it will be impossible to prevent Obama from abusing his executive authority.

Even the conventional post-election honeymoon period may be short-lived. A huge controversy over the fiscal cliff looms in the lame-duck session of Congress. Obama has predicted that in the wake of his reelection, the Republican “fever” will break. Given the stakes, his conduct of this campaign, and Obama’s evident transformative intentions, a bitter showdown is more probable.

The long and short of it is that President Obama has won reelection, but in a way likely to propel national polarization well beyond its current level. By delaying his most controversial policy changes to a second term, laying the basis for (arguably unconstitutional) rule by executive order, and running a negative campaign designed to realign the electorate leftward, Obama has laid the foundation for a high-conflict future. What’s more, he knows it, and he’s ready for it. Obama is willing to pay the price of national division for the sake of making the transformative changes he seeks. So a massive increase in polarization is exactly what we’re likely to get.

To put it another way, because the public has never truly seen the changes he’s enacted put into practice, Obama has an exceedingly tenuous mandate. But he doesn’t care. All Obama wants to do is to squeak by, after which he plans to depend on shifting demographics to cement his sweeping transformation in place. The question is, have Americans really changed as much as Obama thinks, or will the actual arrival of his long-delayed first term agenda in his second term set off a populist movement that brings his plans to a halt?

An important update from Moe Lane at Red State:

“There is a lot of ruin in a country.” And despair is a sin.

I repeat: despair is a sin.  The worst of them.