CHICAGO, IL — President Obama’s historic presidency will continue into a second term.
Projections show Obama defeating Mitt Romney in enough states to earn a majority in the electoral college, though slightly less of one than Obama won in 2008. Despite late hopes from Romney that momentum might carry him to an upset victory, the president resoundingly defeated Romney in nearly every battleground. The huge crowd at his rally in Chicago grew louder, reaching delirious heights, as NBC’s call of the linchpin battleground state of Ohio put Obama over the top.On the eve of the election, a teary-eyed and hoarse Obama in Iowa asked the early supporters that turned his grassroots 2008 campaign into a phenomenon to come to his aid one last time.
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