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Black
voters in historic numbers join coalition that re-elects President
Barack Obama
 (November
6, 2012) President Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, was
re-elected to a second term with a broad base of support that
represented the realities of America's changing demographics.
Obama was able to claim victory -- despite the fact that Florida and
other states had not completed their vote tally -- by reaching the
necessary 270 electoral votes before midnight. By morning the total for
Obama would be 303 while challenge Mitt Romney took 206. The President
claimed 60,034,159 of the popular vote or 50.3%, to Romney's 57,357,522
votes or 48.1%.
"I want you to know that this wasn't fate, and it wasn't an accident,"
said Obama in an e-mail to supporters. "You made this happen. You
organized yourselves block by block. You took ownership of this campaign
five and ten dollars at a time... Today is the clearest proof yet that,
against the odds, ordinary Americans can overcome powerful interests."
Exit polling revealed early in the evening that African-American voters
were going to the polls with as much enthusiasm and, in some cases,
greater numbers than in the 2008 historic election. The Obama campaign
invested in building a coalition of voters that represented the broad
demographics of the nation's largest markets.
African-American turnout, as measured election night, was again at
historic levels. Black voters defied nay sayers who wondered if there
would be as much support for Obama as in his 2008 win by again
delivering 13% of the President total. Coupled with overwhelming support
from Latino voters, 18-24 year-olds, and women, The Obama campaign's
coalition strategy delivered success.
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