The 2012 U.S. presidential election in Michigan took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 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 Mitt Romney. Michigan was won by Democrat Barack Obama by a 9. 5% margin of victory.
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The 2012 U.S. presidential election in Michigan took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 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 Mitt Romney. Michigan was won by Democrat Barack Obama by a 9. 5% margin of victory. Obama received 54. 21% of the vote to Romney’s 44. 71%. The state’s Republican trend would continue, as Donald Trump ended up narrowly winning the state and flipping even more counties in 2016. The state had 7,286,556 registered voters as of February 15, and delegates were awarded proportionately. The Democratic Party used a caucus system to determine the proportion of delegates awarded to Democratic candidates. As the only Democratic candidate, President Obama won all 183 pledged delegates in the caucus. They, along with the other 20 unpledged delegates, voted for Obama at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In May, it was reported that the Republican Party of Michigan awarded the two delegates for national convention in Tampa, 6 of whom were Paul supporters, and 24 were Romney supporters. A controversy arose over the delegate allocation in Michigan, where the rules stated that two delegates would be awarded at large, but 24 Romney supporters disputed these numbers, stating that they had actually taken 8 of the voting delegates, plus several non-voting slots. In 2012, Michigan was given 59 delegates to the Republican national convention, but that number was reduced to 30 as a penalty for bringing the election date forward before March 6 as the GOP rules set. Some Democrats urged their supporters to vote for Rick Santorum in the Republican primary, in hopes of forcing the Republican candidates to use more resources and help make it easier for Barack Obama to win the general election.
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