As of today, President Obama has more or less officially won Florida, making the more or less final electoral vote tally as Obama 332, Romney 206.
As votes continue to be counted, President Obama is expanding his popular vote lead, which is now above 3 million votes. It's now Obama 51% to Romney 48% with a margin that surpasses GW Bush in 2004.
Although Paul Ryan won reelection to his House seat in Wisconsin, it was not only by a narrow margin, but he lost his hometown in spectacular fashion. At the beginning of his vp campaign, Ryan made a big deal out of going back to his hometown of Janesville and accusing the Obama administration of going back on its promises to save a plant there in the reorganization of the auto industry.
It didn't exactly work. Ryan had been used to winning reeelection handily and Janesville by big margins. Not this time. He lost Janesville by 11 points. His Democratic opponent led 55% to 44%.
The Romneyryan ticket did even worse than that in Janesville. They lost by 25 points. President Obama got 62% there.
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