President Barack Obama wins Florida topping Mitt Romney in final tally

By Tamara Lush

Associated Press

Published: Saturday, Nov. 10 2012 12:28 p.m. MST

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President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have brought back memories of 2000.

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UtahBlueDevil

Durham, NC

This will kill Karl Rove. He is still trying to figure out how he got it wrong in Ohio. Rove thought spending 126 million on over 82,000 TV spots would allow him to buy this election. Lets hope this experience kills the whole SuperPAC thing, as it More..

2:48 p.m. Nov. 10, 2012
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ParkCityAggie

Park City, Ut

Republicans - all I hear you guys talking about is how America must want free stuff w/o working, free cell phones and other ridiculous stuff like that. So my 1st bit of advice is the quite watching Fox News and turn off the radio blowhards/blogs for More..

6:01 p.m. Nov. 10, 2012
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Blue

Salt Lake City, UT

Toosmart:

Gore won the popular vote in 2000 but lost in the electoral college only after a 5-4 Supreme Court decision, and yet Bush spoke frequently of his "mandate."

Moreover, the size of Obama's margin of victory More..

6:39 p.m. Nov. 10, 2012
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