Picture distributed by
President Obama on "Twitter"
in the moment of his victory
[Source: Al-Arabiya]
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At 04:15 GMT:
The following first election results have been taken from CNN as well as Al-Jazeera. Both stations are differently treating the incoming results. While CNN is flooding us with very many single data and county related analysis, Al-Jazeera is behaving much more relaxed which makes it easier to follow the proceedings. By the way, during the 2008 elections they predicted Obama's deciding victory in Ohia much earlier than CNN.
At 03:00 GMT, it became clear that Obama is going to win at least some of the so-called "swing-states" that are regarded to be essential in presidential elections. Even Florida is now drifting from an uncomfortable patt situation (02:30) towards Barack Obama like Ohio already has.
While Mitt Romney won his home-state of Utah as well as Montana, Arizona and North Carolina, it seems he lost Wisconsin, the home-state of his co-runner Paul Ryan, as well as New Hampshire according to latest projections.
Of course, this will remain be a close race nationwide but some commentators are already expecting hardships for Mitt Romney to come as pro-Democratic counties in some disputed states are not yet counted.
However, whoever might be the next president, he will inherit a divided congress and a very much divided country.
Patty Culhane reporting for Al-Jazeera from the Democratic camp in Chicago. We usually see her on CNN. The inserted election results are referring to the 538 electoral votes from which 270 have to be reached. 04:15 GMT it was 250 for Obama.
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Discussion of Election Results at 10:15 GMT
Final results can be taken from the below electoral map, showing Democratic voting states in blue and those voting for the Republicans in red. The numbers of deciding electoral votes have been added. As Florida vote counting is still not finished, there might be insignificant changes that cannot topple the overall result:
The popular votes below are showing the real numbers of pro-Democratic or pro-Republican voters:
While a nation's future can be seen in the proceedings of its youth, the following results for the 18-29 year old are of a special importance:
Like most nations of the Western hemisphere, the U.S.A. have undergone a dramatic demographic change. The increasing percentage of Latin-American voters can be seen as a North-American peculiarity. Such voters obviously trust more in Obama than in the president's competitor Romney. Same goes for the Afro-American community:
Some senatorial elections accompanying the presidential elections resulted in a broader (+2) Democratic majority in the Senate (51 vs. 45) while the House of Representatives remained under control of the Republicans (197 vs. 227). That means nothing has changed on Capitol Hill.
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