President Barack Obama claimed victory in the Keystone state Tuesday
night and its 20 electoral votes, thanks in part to Pennsylvania’s
Latino voters.
According to Fox News exit polls conducted in the state, Obama
claimed 82 percent of Pennsylvania’s Latin voters. The Hispanic
population in the so-called battleground state is about 7 percent.
Fox News also reported that Obama claimed 54 percent of the vote in
Pennsylvania, with Romney grabbing 45 percent after just under 70
percent of the votes were reported.
Pennsylvania had been considered to be in Obama's column for much of
the campaign. But in recent days, as polls appeared to narrow, Mitt
Romney's campaign saw an opportunity. There was a late advertising blitz
for Romney, and the candidate added visits to Pennsylvania Sunday and
again on Election Day.
Former President Bill Clinton also spent the last days of the campaign in Pennsylvania trying to get out the vote for Obama.
Democrat, Sen. Bob Casey, has also won another term in Pennsylvania.
Democrat Bob Casey has won a second term in the United States Senate,
defeating his well-financed Republican challenger, Tom Smith, according
to a projection by the Associated Press.
Several TV networks have also called the race for Casey, 52, who is
now the winner of five consecutive statewide elections, including two
for auditor general and one for state treasurer.
Smith, a coal-mining millionaire from rural Armstrong County in
Western Pennsylvania, spent at least $17 million of his own money on the
race.
Early on, Casey had seemed a prohibitive favorite, but Smith's money -
together with help from national conservative organizations - made
Casey sweat coming down the stretch.
Voters in Indiana have rejected one of the two Republican Senate
candidates whose campaigns ran into trouble because of comments about
rape and abortion. Democrat Joe Donnelly defeated Republican Richard
Mourdock, who slipped in the polls after saying during a debate that
when a woman who is raped becomes pregnant, it's what "God intended."
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