Washington: Nearly three-fourth of Indian Americans voted for US President Barack Obama in the swing states which are considered to be decisive in final results, a sample survey has found. In the survey done by San Francisco-based April Media among those voted from Ohio, Colorado, Wisconsin, Florida and Virginia, 75 per cent of Indian Americans voted for Obama. In Pennsylvania, however, the community favoured Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate....
08:42 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: Americans went to the polls to vote for their next president on Tuesday after a tightly contested race between incumbent Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. Below are some comments made by the candidates and voters: Obama, speaking to WJLA TV in Washington: "We've laid out the choice very clearly for the American people, and now the question is going to be people showing up to the polls......
08:20 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama is the winner of the 16 electoral votes in Michigan - the state that benefitted the most from the auto industry bailout. Michigan, where Mitt Romney's father served as governor, wasn't heavily contested by the two campaigns, though it did see some late GOP advertising. Obama also won in New Jersey, battered last week by Hurricane Sandy. Romney, meanwhile, has added Alabama's nine electoral votes to...
08:02 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: With the 9 pm closing time, Romney wins several states in the South and in the heartland. Obama wins New York, with 29 electoral votes, and Michigan, with 16 electoral votes. Romney wins: - Texas (38 electoral votes) - South Dakota (3 electoral votes) - North Dakota (3 electoral votes) - Louisiana (8 electoral votes) - Kansas (6 electoral votes) - Wyoming (3 electoral votes) - Nebraska (4 electoral...
07:52 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Houston: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, currently in space floating around in zero-gravity, voted for US presidential polls by absentee ballot. Sunita, along with flight engineer Kevin Ford, exercised her franchise in July while stationed in Russia even before heading up to the station aboard Soyuz ships launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The other four members of the station's current Expedition 33 crew are all non-Americans - three Russian cosmonauts and...
07:47 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama has won his home state of Illinois, as well as his Republican rival Mitt Romney's home state of Massachusetts and Vice President Joe Biden's home state of Delaware. There have been no surprises in the returns so far from Eastern and Midwestern states. Obama wins the 20 electoral votes in Illinois, and the 11 in Massachusetts, along with 10 in Maryland and Delaware's three. He's...
07:30 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: Mitt Romney has won in Georgia. It's a state that had appeared to be a potential battleground early in the campaign, but ended up being part of Romney's Southern base. Romney also added Tennessee's 11 electoral votes to his total, putting him ahead of President Barack Obama so far. Romney has 67 electoral votes so far, to Obama's 64. Romney had been far ahead of Obama in the polls...
07:13 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: Mitt Romney has won in Indiana, a state won by President Barack Obama four years ago. Romney is also the winner in South Carolina, a state where Obama is deeply unpopular. Those states have 20 electoral votes between them. Obama has won his home state of Illinois, as well as Mitt Romney's home state of Massachusetts and Vice President Joe Biden's home state of Delaware. There have been no...
06:41 AM, Nov 07, 2012
The mainstream media is geared for the biggest political spectacle of the year. Newsrooms are abuzz as the final lap of the US Presidential race ...
06:30 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: Mitt Romney has captured West Virginia and its five electoral votes. President Barack Obama is unpopular in the state, and West Virginia GOP officials have been hoping that would lead to victories for other Republicans on the ballot. Romney earlier won in Kentucky, giving him 13 electoral votes overall, while Obama was the winner of Vermont's three electoral votes. ...
06:11 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: The polls are starting to close in the eastern United States, and President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney each have an early victory. As expected, Obama was the winner in Vermont, with three electoral votes, while Romney captured Kentucky's eight electoral votes. Vermont voters also re-elected Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders. Still to come are the returns from the handful of states, including Ohio, Florida and Virginia, where Obama and...
05:51 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: Sporadic complaints about voting procedures surfaced from Pennsylvania to Florida on Tuesday, while long lines in many states posed their own challenges in what could be one of the closest presidential elections in US history. It was unclear what impact controversies over everything from the presence of poll watchers to software installation on tabulation machines would eventually have on an election that caps the long and bitter presidential campaign....
05:36 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Boston: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wrote a 1,118-word victory speech on Tuesday as he concluded his yearslong quest for the presidency claiming he had no regrets. "I feel like we put it all on the field. We left nothing in the locker room. We fought to the very end, and I think that's why we'll be successful," Romney said aboard his plane as he flew from Pittsburgh to Boston,...
05:13 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: 11.25 AM: Mitt Romney concedes, says "I have called Obama for his victory. I have congratulated President Obama. I congratulate Obama for his second term. 11.16 AM: Latest CNN projection: Barack Obama at 303 and Mitt Romney at 203. 11.10 AM: CNN projection: Barack Obama wins Virginia (13). 11.06 AM: President Barack Obama surges ahead in the popular votes. 11.02 AM: CNN projection: 73 per cent of popular votes...
05:00 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Following the elections from Boston, Massachusetts: what are the voters looking for in their leader, what are the major issues? ...
04:57 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: Preliminary results of an exit poll conducted for The Associated Press show that the presidential election hinges once again on the economy. The survey of voters as they leave polling places Tuesday shows 6 in 10 voters say the economy is the top issue facing the nation, with unemployment and rising prices hitting voters hard. About 4 in 10 say they think the nation's economy is on the mend,...
04:21 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: Turnout appears to be high in many parts of the country, with long waits at some polling places as voters deliver their Election Day verdict. Both Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama need their supporters to show up in high numbers. A robust turnout among minorities would favor Obama, while Romney is looking for a strong showing among working-class white men. Several storm-ravaged areas of New York and New...
02:45 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Point Pleasant, New Jersey: Election Day turnout was heavy on Tuesday in several storm-ravaged areas in New York and New Jersey, a welcome change from crisis to catharsis for many who saw exercising their civic duty as a sign of normalcy amid lingering devastation. Lines were long in Point Pleasant, NJ, where residents from the Jersey Shore communities of Point Pleasant Beach and Mantoloking had to cast their ballots due...
01:27 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Washington: While the general election might not break partisan gridlock in Congress, it could result in historic changes for US social policy: Several states had a chance to be the first to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote and to legalize recreational use of marijuana. Dating back to 1998, same-sex marriage has been rejected in all 32 states that have held popular votes on the issue. Gay-rights advocates believed they...
12:48 AM, Nov 07, 2012
