- Electoral college: 349 seats to 162 seats (270 needed to win)
- Popular vote: 52% to 46.7% (6 million vote plurality for Obama)
This is a landslide victory for Obama. America has decided that it wants change, and voted in a Democrat as President, a Democrat-controlled Congress and a Democrat-controlled Senate.
Now it comes entierly down to President Obama to show that the trust America - and the rest of the world - has put in him is justified.
The hard work starts here [well, in two months time].
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5.3% is hardly a landslide in UK terms but it makes all the difference in the US. Well done to Obama on an incredible campaign.
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LFAT, 5.3% in a presidential election is a landslide in American terms even if not in UK. But we have a less polarised political system, so it’s inevitable.