Obama has won in Florida, too—report

President Barack Obama has won Florida’s 29 electoral votes in the presidential election, further fattening his substantial margin of victory in what had been predicted to be a close race.

President Barack Obama has won Florida’s 29 electoral votes in the presidential election, further fattening his substantial margin of victory in what had been predicted to be a close race.
“Count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else,” Winston Churchill once joked. They did the right thing is what our e-mail traffic indicates after Barrack Obama trounced Mitt Romney with 303 electoral college votes to win re-election.

Rights groups challenged President Barack Obama on Thursday to use his second term to close Guantanamo and end drone attacks, warrantless surveillance and extrajudicial killings.

US President Barack Obama Thursday returned the calls of a long list of global leaders, including those of Israel and Egypt, who contacted him to congratulate him on re-election, officials said.

President Barack Obama swept to an emphatic reelection win over Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday, forging new history by transcending a dragging economy and the stifling unemployment that haunted his first term.

Republican challenger Mitt Romney conceded defeat in the US election early Wednesday, telling supporters that he had called President Barack Obama to congratulate him on his victory.

Representative Danilo Suarez, minority leader at the House of Representatives, feels that Republican candidate Mitt Romney would have been “more decisive” in resolving the Philippines’ territorial dispute with China.

US President Barack Obama was inching towards victory on Tuesday as results poured in from the US presidential election, as Mitt Romney struggled to win vital swing states.

President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the crucial battleground of New Hampshire, US television networks projected on Tuesday.

White House rivals Barack Obama and Mitt Romney grabbed early wins Tuesday in states traditionally loyal to their parties but swing states Virginia, Florida and Ohio were too close to call.

Polls closed Tuesday in 16 states including the populous states of Pennsylvania and Florida, where networks said the race between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was too close to call.

Around the country on Election Day 2012 with AP reporters bringing the latest developments to you:

Voters in Ohio felt like kingmakers Tuesday as the toss-up race for the White House looked set to be decided in their battleground state.