President Barack Obama has won the electoral Presidential election with 303 votes to Mitt Romney's 206, exceeding the 270 needed to win.
For those unaware of the electoral vote, each state has a designated number of votes to represent the people; the candidate with the most votes (calculated by each voter or 'the popular vote') gets 100% of the state's votes. The number of votes each state receives is dependent on the number of representatives which in turn is dependent on the population. This does not mean the popular vote is unimportant, the popular vote is needed to find the person with the most votes per head who in turn gets all of the state's electoral votes.
Obama, though he has increased the budget deficit and introduced state healthcare and welfare, was the candidate for the job simply through spearheading the attack on Al Qaeda, through the drones (fewer U.S soldiers killed) he nailed Osama bin Laden, Al Awlaki, Saaed al Sheri,
Atiyah abd al-Rahman and Abu Yahya la-Libi (these latter three were ALL Al
Qaeda #2 at one time after Zawahri took over from Osama). He also pioneered for peace amongst Arab countries and the USA while finding Pakistan's dark secrets.
Unemployment is still very high, alongside the budget deficit. Obama has a big job on his hands but he's the man to do it.
Here's Donald Trump's take on it,
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
GOBAMA!!!
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