LIVE BLOG: Election Day in the Swing Counties
We took a look into the “13 Counties That May Decide The Presidential Election” to show who these voters are, demographically. Follow here all day long for live coverage and aggregation on the ground in these 13 counties.
1:22 am
Obama has won. The final election results for eight of the 13 swing counties we’ve been following have come out, and only one of the counties, Tuscarawas County, OH, swung away from the 2008 election. Here is a final look at this year’s election compared with the three previous.
11:03 pm
LIVE CHARTING: Current Election Results for three swing counties in Florida, via Politico’s Election Result numbers.
10:30 pm
LIVE CHARTING: Current Election Results for Hillsborough County, FL, via Politico’s Election Result numbers.
10:27 pm
LIVE CHARTING: Current Election Results for Pinellas County, FL, via Politico’s Election Result numbers.
10:15 pm
LIVE CHARTING: Current Election Results for Cumberland County, NC, via Politico’s Election Result numbers.
10:13 pm
LIVE CHARTING: Current Election Results for Wake County, NC, via Politico’s Election Result numbers.
10:04 pm
LIVE CHARTING: Current Election Results for Osceola County, FL, via Politico’s Election Result numbers.
9:52 pm
LIVE CHARTING: Current Election Results for Jefferson County, CO, via Politico’s Election Result numbers.
9:44 pm
LIVE CHARTING: Current Election Results for Hamilton County, OH, via Politico’s Election Result numbers.
6:57 pm
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6:36 pm
Earlier today in Jefferson County, CO. fights over candidates and traffic concerns, the Denver Post reports:
In Colorado, Jefferson County cops broke up a fight between brother-in-laws, brawling over candidates this morning. denverpost.com/politics/ci_21…
— Dan Frosch (@djfrosch1) November 6, 2012
6:09 pm
Alex Triantafilou, chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party in Ohio, says that the race is going “to be very close in this county.”
President Obama won Hamilton County in 2008, so the Republican Party has “a lot of ground to make up in a county that is demographically trending for the Democrats,” says Triantafilou. But there has been “heavy turnout, especially in Republican neighborhoods,” he says, adding that there are still long lines all over the county.
5:36 pm
Updates on the power outage in Hillsborough County, FL Supervisor of Election Office:
Power is back on at the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Election office, just in time for folks getting out of work. #TampaBayVotes
— ABC Action News (@abcactionnews) November 6, 2012