Decision 2012

Gov. Gary Herbert handily won his first full term in office Tuesday, beating Democratic challenger Peter Cooke 69 percent to 27 percent, with 91 percent of precincts statewide reporting. Read more »

President Barack Obama on Tuesday won a second term in the White House, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney in a hard-fought election that served as a referendum on who could better ease... Read more »

President Barack Obama stepped to the brink of re-election Tuesday night, capturing battleground Ohio from Mitt Romney and edging ahead in other pivotal states despite a weak economy and high... Read more »

President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney swapped hard-fought battleground states Tuesday night in a tense duel for the White House shadowed by a weak economy and high... Read more »

President Barack Obama has won Minnesota, maintaining the state's long streak of supporting Democrats for president even after Republicans made a last-minute play for the state. Read more »

Sen. Claire McCaskill has won re-election in Missouri, holding off Rep. Todd Akin who came under fire for saying women had ways of preventing pregnancies in the case of "legitimate rape." Read more »

On election night, the Associated Press employed an expansive nationwide operation to “call” races as soon as possible. Read more »

Elizabeth Warren has unseated Republican Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts, giving Democrats their second pickup of the night of a Republican Senate seat. Read more »

A New England battleground state has gone to President Barack Obama. He won the four electoral votes at stake in New Hampshire. Read more »

U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch has won his race to serve a seventh and what he says will be his final term in office. Read more »

Republican Gov. Gary Herbert has won his race to serve his first full term in office. Read more »

of the most predictable calls of the night, Republican Mitt Romney has won Utah. Romney, a Mormon and graduate of Brigham Young University who oversaw the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, is... Read more »

The Utah Colleges Exit Poll has surveyed Utah voters as they left polling places in Utah throughout Election Day. More than 500 student interviewers fanned out to 130 polling locations. Read more »

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania has turned out to be safe for the Democrats after all. The state's 20 electoral votes are going to President Barack Obama. Pennsylvania had been considered to be... Read more »

Romney wins Mississippi. Read more »

While waiting to vote, I felt unity and brotherhood with the other voters who were different from me — and whose votes might be different from mine. Read more »

Republican Mitt Romney easily won Louisiana's eight electoral votes, and most of the state's incumbent congressmen are expected to coast to re-election. Read more »

e 9 p.m. closing time, Romney wins several states in the South and in the heartland. Obama wins New York, with 29 electoral votes, and Michigan, with 16 electoral votes. Read more »

has called Alabama for Republican Mitt Romney. Read more »

, with 16 electoral votes, goes to Mitt Romney as expected. It's not considered a battleground state. Read more »

President Barack Obama has defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Delaware, picking up the state's three electoral votes, exit polling shows. Read more »

Mitt Romney has captured West Virginia and its five electoral votes. Read more »