When we last checked in yesterday, Mitt Romney had fallen to a rounded-off 47 percent of the vote, and 47.47 percent, to be exact. It was delish!
While it would've been awesome for the count to end there, Romney still has more to fall, and is now at 47.42 percent as a big batch of Ohio provisionals (but no Cuyahoga) came in.
OH: Montgomery Co. (Dayton) reports 8,156 provisionals for @BarackObama, 3,653 @MittRomney. https://t.co/...' @Redistrict via web
Montgomery County was 50.7-47.7 Obama after the election-night count. These provisionals broke the president's way 69-31 in the two-party vote.
OH: Summit Co. (Akron) reports 5,891 provisionals for @BarackObama, 2,300 @MittRomney. https://t.co/...' @Redistrict via web
Summit County went 56.7-41.9 Obama on Election Night. The provisionals broke Obama 72-28 in the two-party vote.
OH: Lorain County reports 3,349 new provisionals for @BarackObama, 1,110 for @MittRomney. https://t.co/...' @Redistrict via web
Lorrain went 56.4-41.9 Obama on Election Night, 75-25 of the two-party vote with provisionals.
OH: Trumbull County (Warren) reports 2,226 provisionals for @BarackObama, 734 @MittRomney. https://t.co/...' @Redistrict via web
Trumbull went 60.2-38.0 Obama on Election Night, 75-25 of the two-party vote with provisionals.
OH: Stark Co. (Canton), traditional bellwether, switches from @MittRomney to @BarackObama w/ provisionals, 89,432 to 88,581.' @Redistrict via web
Romney had a 86,958 to 86,314 lead in the county on Election Night, which means Obama netted 1,495 votes with the provisional ballots.
If you ever need a reason why Ohio Republicans fought so hard to suppress provisional ballots, this is it. In just these five counties, Obama netted 13,320 votes. Just imagine when Cuyahoga (Cleveland) checks in.
These numbers (and a bunch of smaller counties earlier last week) have grown Obama's Election Night edge of 50.1-48.2 to 50.3-48.0, or 0.4 points. Cuyahoga will add another chunk to that.
In a close election, every one of those ballots would've been litigated, and every one of them could've made a difference. That's why we have to remain vigilant of Republican efforts to suppress the vote. But we should also salute the Obama campaign and Democrats for fighting those voter suppression efforts so effectively.
Total U.S. presidential votes hit 127.5 million (was 131.3 million in 2008), 1-2 million left to count: https://t.co/...' @Redistrict via web
Turnout won't be as high as it was in 2008. Mitt Romney has about 500,000 more votes than John McCain received, while Obama is down by about 4.5 million. Overall, Obama has a roughly 4.4 million popular vote advantage. Remember, George W. Bush's big "mandate" in 2004 was built on a popular vote victory of just three million votes.
10:10 PM PT: The fruits of anastasia p's labors are in:
OH: Cuyahoga Co. reports 26,279 provisionals for @BarackObama, 6,176 @MittRomney. Romney down to 47.41%: https://t.co/...— @Redistrict via web
And this means that Ohio is looking less close than it once did:
OH: Obama's margin has grown from 1.9% to 2.7% and Columbus's provisionals haven't even been counted yet: https://t.co/...— @Redistrict via web
Toledo came in too:
OH: Lucas County (Toledo) reports 7,387 provisionals for @BarackObama, 1,840 @MittRomney: https://t.co/...— @Redistrict via web
10:16 PM PT: Rough math -- Obama has picked up about 40,000 votes in the provisional count, and we're still waiting on Columbus -- the state's largest city (though the Cleveland metro area is larger).
I'm guessing Obama's margin ends up at around three points. My Ohio +5 prediction is looking less stupid than it once did. And it makes my Colorado miss (at 3.38 points and counting) the worst, by far.
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