Election 2012 in United States Presidential lat November 6, 2012 the election is currently being held. This election 57th quadrennial president election in which presidential electors, who will officially elect the president and the vice president of the United States on Decemeber 17, 2012 will be chosen to win the election. In which case the United States House of Representatives will choose the President voting by states and the United States Senate will choose the Vice President.
For a second term during the election, incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and Democratic Vice President Joe Biden are running. The bigger challengers are the Republican Party candidate former Massachussets Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate.
The four other candidates are mathematically elligible to win the election by a majority of the electoral college, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee and Jill Stein, the Green Part nominee have attained ballot access sufficient to quality for enough electoral votes to mathematically win the presidency. The Virgil Goode, the Constitution Party nominee and Rocky Anderson, the Justice Party nominee have the minimum number needed to win the election.
The 2012 presidential election will coincide with the United States Senate elections where one third of the Senators will face re-election and the United States House of Representatives elections to elect the members for the 113th congress.
Last Tuesday, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were enclose in a tight race with three severe battleground states too existing to call as US voters gather between two starkly various visions for the country. Obama and Romney heap up victories in the states they were expected to win without difficulty. In the beginning, the counting of the vote in the state of Florida showed them running neck and neck.
Obama conduct in the severe battleground state of Ohio and Romney held an early lead in a third state, Virginia. Romney needs all three of those states to navigate a narrow path to the presidency, while Obama an afford to lose one or two of them and still win a second four year term.
There were 120 million people predict to render their judgment among the Democratic binding and Romney after a long, pricey and bitter presidential campaign that expand the difference among Americans wanting to continue Obama’s concept to establish the ailing economy and those who want to try a new concept.
Romney’s oath seem to limit to a victory, Obama won Michigan, the Republican’s state of birth however where he ran afoul of voters by battling an auto industry bailout exertion by Obama. Some polls had shown a tight race there. Obama also won in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/07/us-usa-campaign-idUSBRE89M11220121107