2012 Election Score Card

President       Electoral Votes 2012 Obama 332 Romney 206   Electoral Votes 2008 Obama 365 McCain 173   Votes 2012 Obama 64,444,805 Romney 60,265,579 Others 2,154,904 Votes 2008 Obama 69,498,215 McCain 59,948,240 Others 1,947,535 % of Vote...

The Presidential Election

President Obama will likely be the first two-term President in history who received fewer votes in his re-election than he did in his initial election. (It is not likely that this result will change between now and the posting of...

The Money

October 17th is the date when the last pre-general contribution and expenditure period closed. Information about the period October 18 through the end of the election and the aftermath has not yet been filed. The Obama campaign reported raising $632,177,423...

The U.S. Senate

About New Hampshire The residents of New Hampshire, seeing the future, have elected women to the offices of Governor, both U.S. Senate and both U.S. House seats. The U.S. Senate Democrats 53 Republicans 44 Independents 2 (caucus Dem) If there...

The House of Representatives

Democratic Congressional candidates as a group received 5.29% of the votes cast for that office, 675,000 more votes than Republican Congressional candidates as a group. Democrats received 58,268,527 votes, while Republicans garnered 57,593,519 votes. Yet the Republicans retained a 33-member...

Governors and State Legislatures

After the 1992 election there were 28 Democratic Governors, 20 Republican Governors, and 1 Independent. Following the 2012 election there are 30 Republican Governors, 19 Democratic Governors and 1 Independent. A major shift came in 1996 when, post-election, there were...

Turnout, Decision Time, and Demography Of The 2012 Electorate

Going into the 2012 election the voting age population of the United States was 240,926,957. The voting eligible population was 219,296,589. Based on votes cast as counted through November 29, 2012, (127,866,731 votes) turnout was 58.4%. This is the lowest...