J309: Election Night

Infographic: How long Tumblr users waited at the polls

The amount of time 137 ShortFormBlog and Tumblr Election readers spent waiting at the polls to vote today. (We asked earlier tonight.) One unlucky person waited three and a half hours. :(

Barack Obama won a second term as president, emerging victorious in the battle over swing states with a middle class sensibility and vigorous campaigning through the last weeks of the 2012 campaign.

He was declared the projected winner around 8:12 p.m.  He got 284 electoral votes at the moment of victory with a possibility of winning over 300 once all the votes get counted.  Obama put the dagger in Romney’s campaign when he won Ohio, right after winning Iowa and Colorado.  An earlier win in Wisconsin took away another Romney route to victory.

Can’t wait to start reading posts on:

How early the election was called. (Think it was 2:15 a.m. last year.)

How cautious but not some outlets were. (NYT: Networks Project Second Term for Obama)

The best graphics of the election (NYT 512 Ways)

The best live coverage of the election (NYT 512, CNN, Huffington Post, NPR)