Election Map 2012; Obama Leading Romney In Electoral College Votes
As the election results roll in, Barack Obama leads overall in Electoral College Votes over Mitt Romney.
According to reports from RealClearPolitics, Obama has a 10-point lead with 201 electoral votes compared to Romney with 191 votes. In order to become president of the United States, a candidate needs 270 Electoral College votes.
The polling analysis from RealClearPolitics showed 11 toss-up states with a total of 146 electoral votes remaining. The latest leanings of the toss-up states show Romney leading in Florida (29 votes), North Carolina (15) and Virginia (13). The toss-up states currently leaning toward Obama are Ohio (18), Iowa (6), Michigan (16), Nevada (6), New Hampshire (4), Ohio (18), Pennsylvania (20), Wisconsin (10) and Colorado (9).
Gallup's final pre-election poll of "likely voters" gave Romney a one percentage point lead of 49 percent to President Obama at 48 percent. The final Gallup survey was conducted from Nov. 1 to Nov. 4.
Recent polls show the candidates are closely matched in voter support. RealClearPolitics listed the average score that places Obama with a slight lead at 48.8 percent support compared to Romney at 48. 1 percent.
According to The New York Times, separate findings show that Obama has 243 electoral votes compared to Romney's 206. The remaining toss-up states are reported to be Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida.
Ohio remains a key battleground swing-state that will be a key to victory for either candidate. The latest polls show Obama with a slight lead at 50 percent compared to Romney at 48.5 percent support.
A new Election Map developed by the Oxford Internet Institute uses Twitter to show how popular each candidate is on the social media site. According to the map, President Obama will win the election based on the fact that he has been mentioned in more tweets across the country.
The map was created by Graham, Adham Tamer, Ning Wang and Scott Hale. Between Oct. 1 and Nov. 1, the team analyzed 30 million geo-coded tweets that mentioned either Romney or Obama. It should be noted that information for Alaska and Hawaii were not included in these data.
