Obama stays in office; Warren wins

The Democratic Party had a strong election night in Massachusetts.

In addition to a win for Elizabeth Warren over incumbent United States Senator Scott Brown (R-MA), President Barack Hussein Obama has won a second term by a convincing Electoral College margin over his Republican rival, former Massachusetts Governor Willard “Mitt” Romney.

After a long and arduous campaign, frequently characterized as a dead heat, Pres. Obama emerged victorious with 332 electoral votes to 206 for Gov. Romney.

The popular vote was a closer contest, but Pres. Obama emerged victorious there as well, winning 50 percent of the vote to Gov. Romney’s 48.

Pres. Obama’s victory was less commanding than when he first won election in 2008, but was decisive nonetheless.

By winning 50 percent of the vote, Pres. Obama becomes the only Democratic Party president since the Civil War, aside from Franklin D. Roosevelt, to have won two presidential elections with at least 50 percent of the vote.

The real muscle of Mr. Obama’s win, however, came in the Electoral College.

He won every state that he won in 2008, with the exception of North Carolina and Indiana. He decisively won the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Florida.

In Massachusetts, Pres. Obama won 61 percent of the vote. In Berkshire County, that number was even higher, with 76 percent of the vote. He also won every town in The Berkshires.

“This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation,” Gov. Romney said in his concession speech.

“We know in our hearts, that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come,” Pres. Obama said in his victory speech.

Warren wins 

After a fierce race, Ms. Warren won election to the United States Senate from Massachusetts, defeating incumbent Sen. Brown.

“This victory belongs to you, you did this,” she said in her victory speech.

Ms. Warren won 54 percent of the vote to Sen. Brown’s 46.

While the race was fairly close statewide, she won by a landslide in western Massachusetts and The Berkshires.

Ms. Warren won 71 percent of the vote in Berkshire County, her best county in the state.

This was an improvement on Attorney General Martha Coakley’s performance in Berkshire County, when she lost a close race to Sen. Brown in 2010.

Ms. Warren also won the small Berkshire County community of Otis, the only Berkshire County town to vote for Sen. Brown when he was first elected in 2010.

“No surprise,” said 4th Berkshire District Massachusetts State Representative William “Smitty” Pignatelli when asked for his reaction by The Beacon. “I think the Elizaebth Warren team was very well organized.”

Posted by Bera B. Dunau on November 6, 2012. Filed under Featured,National News,News,State News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry