VoteNight

Today is election day in United States of America, people are voting to elect either Barack Obama (@barackobama) or Mitt Romney (@mittromney) for President for next 4 years. Checkout all the photos on instagram on election day in the US by following these hashtags:

#vote

#election2012

#electionday

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  ↑ Photos by @mittromney and @barackobama the night before election day

Below is a infographic showing the political donations to Obama and Romney campaigns from Wall Street. 

Obama's tough policies on Wall Street have resulted in lower contributions compared to Romney in 2012 and also lower compared to what he raised in 2008 elections.

more here

The first of the three US presidential debate for Election 2012 is today October 3rd 2012 at University of Denver in Colorado.

Checkout all the photos from University of Denver and also checkout all the hashtags:

#debatedenver

#denverdebate

#presidentialdebate

#debate2012

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Below is an infographic from Google showing which age groups are more likely to watch the October 3rd 2012 Presidential Debate happening in Denver, Colorado.

Today's debate will focus on Domestic policies:

Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Location: University of Denver in Denver, Colorado (Tickets)

Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates

Participants: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney

Moderator: Jim Lehrer (Host of NewsHour on PBS)

The debate will focus on domestic policy and be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on topics to be selected by the moderator and announced several weeks before the debate.The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the topic.

First of the three Presidential debates starts tomorrow in Denver, Colorado. Below is a infographic showing what the candidates, strategists and other politicians are talking about it.

Here is a complete list of the Presidential debate schedule.

Romney's missteps in 2012 campaign in the final months after the conventions have hurt his chances to win the Presidential elections, check out the graph below showing the impact of the comments he made about Libya crisis and comments about 47% of Americans.

More poll comparisons from TPM about winning chances:

According to a poll from CNN conducted among people with different education level and income, the rich and educated voted in larger numbers in 2008

Interesting infographic showing the electoral college system in the US Presidential Elections.

30.6% of US voters voted early in 2008. Checkout how the Swing States voted early in 2008 and its impact in 2012 elections.

Below is early voting schedule state by state...

ThinkProgress came out with an interesting graph showing the tax rates of past Presidents compared against Mitt Romney, it shows that Romney paid lowest since Nixon and is worth twice more than all of last 8 Presidents. Read full article here.