2012 United States presidential election in Florida
The 2012 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 General Election. Florida voters chose 29 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Obama ultimately carried the state of Florida with 50.01% of the vote, to Romney’s 49. 13%.
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The 2012 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Florida voters chose 29 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. As of November 8, the vote counting had still not concluded. With much of the remaining vote still coming in was from heavily Democratic areas, Mitt Romney’s Florida campaign acknowledged that Romney had lost the state to Barack Obama. Florida required all counties to finish counting by noon Saturday, but would not announce an official winner until the votes were certified on November 20. At 11 PM EST on November 9, the margin for Obama was 0. 86%, with all but one county finished with their counting. On November 10, most major news sources projected Obama to be the winner of Florida’s 29 electoral votes. It was the last state to be called in the 2012 presidential election, and was also the closest.
Obama ultimately carried the state of Florida with 50.01% of the vote, to Romney’s 49. 13%, a margin of 0. 88%. Having also won the state in 2008, Obama’s 2012 victory made him the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to carry Florida for the Democrats in two consecutive presidential elections. This is also the most recent election Jefferson County, St. Lucie County, and Monroe County, have voted Democratic. The Republican primary was held on January 31, 2012. Fifty delegates were at stake, none of them RNC delegates; it is unclear whether these delegates will be allocated proportionally or winner-take-all. In an effort to increase the political importance of their state’s primary and receive added media exposure, Florida decided to plan its primary ahead of the early contests, a move that violated Republican Party rules and forced early states to move up their contests. Florida was stripped of half of its delegates, awarding only 50 delegates instead of the original 100 delegates.
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