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It was the last state to be called in the 2012 presidential election and also the closest. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Despite Tampa having been the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention , Obama ultimately carried Florida with 50.01% of the vote, to Romney's 49.13%, a margin of 0.88%.
Since the 1952 presidential election, the Democrats have only won Florida five times: in 1964, 1976, 1996, 2008, and 2012. In 2000 , George W. Bush led Al Gore by less than 2,000 votes on election day, but as the recount proceeded, the gap between the two sides continued to narrow. [ 14 ]
The 2012 Florida Republican presidential primary was held on January 31, 2012. [1] Fifty delegates were at stake, none of them RNC (or super) delegates; it is unclear whether these delegates will be allocated proportionally or winner-take-all.
Florida, the largest battleground state in the country, is a must-win for Mitt Romney. President Obama carried the Sunshine State in 2008, but his brand has been damaged there since then. The Senate race between Sen. Bill Nelson (D) and Rep. Connie Mack (R), and House races in the 2nd, 10th, 18th, 22nd and 26th districts, are worth watching.
The 2012 election marked the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's last two re-elections in 1940 and 1944 that the Democrats won a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections. [152] Obama was also the first president of either party to secure a majority of the popular vote in two elections since Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 ...
Elections were held in the United States on November 6, 2012. Democratic President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term and the Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress, retaining control of the Senate even though the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives.
Super Tuesday 2012 took place March 6, when the most simultaneous state presidential primary elections was held in the United States. This election cycle's edition of Super Tuesday, where 17.1 percent of all delegates was allocated, was considerably smaller than the 2008 edition , where 41.5 percent of all delegates was allocated (twenty-one ...
According to a post-election report by University of Florida political scientist Daniel A. Smith, mail-in ballots accounted for about 44 percent of the 11 million votes cast in Florida in 2020. Of ...