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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 ...
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Pages in category "2012 United States presidential election by state" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
Arizona was won by Romney with a 9.06% margin. Obama remains the only president to win two terms in office without carrying Arizona either time since the state's founding in 1912. Arizona is also one of only two states that voted against Obama in both 2008 and 2012 that his vice president Joe Biden would go on to win in 2020, the other being ...
November 6, 2012 New York Times [24] Safe D November 6, 2012 Washington Post [25] Safe D November 6, 2012 RealClearPolitics [26] Solid D November 6, 2012 Sabato's Crystal Ball [27] Solid D November 5, 2012 FiveThirtyEight [28] Solid D November 6, 2012
The state hasn't voted for a Democrat since Jimmy Carter carried it in 1976. [4] Romney also improved on John McCain's 8.97% margin in 2008 . As of the 2024 presidential election , this is the last time where the counties of Barnwell , Calhoun , Chester , Colleton , Darlington , and McCormick voted for the Democratic candidate.
New Jersey was one of just six states that voted more Democratic in 2012 than it had in 2008. In 2008, Obama won the state by roughly 602,000 votes, whereas in 2012, this margin increased to about 648,000 votes. Obama's increased statewide margin owed itself to larger Democratic margins in several central and northern counties.
Prior to the election, all leading news organizations considered this a state Romney would win, making Alaska a safe red state. Romney won the state of Alaska with 54.80% of the vote, while Obama received 40.81%. [1] This was the first time since 1968 that a Democrat received more than 40% of the vote in Alaska.