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Election Day 2012

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President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden celebrate their victory with Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden at a Chicago rally. Getty Images

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Another shot of Obama celebrating his win with First Lady Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia AFP/Getty Images

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Michelle Obama gives the president a supportive hug. AFP/Getty Images

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President Obama tweeted this message and photo after he won re-election. EPA

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Obama addresses supporters during his election night victory rally in Chicago. REUTERS

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Obama smiles to the crowd. UPI

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Confetti obscures the stage in Chicago as Obama celebrates winning re-election. REUTERS

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People celebrate Obama’s victory in Times Square. REUTERS

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More Times Square excitement AFP/Getty Images

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This woman’s excitement about Obama serving another four years is written all over her face. REUTERS

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Also celebrating: Obama’s step-grandmother Sarah Onyango Obama in Nyang’oma Kogelo village, where Obama’s late father Barack Obama Sr. was raised and Sarah lives, in western Kenya. EPA

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These women in NJ are excited about early returns for Obama. AP

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Romney supporters react to the election results. AFP/Getty Images

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Mitt Romney, wife Ann, Janna Ryan and running mate Paul Ryan wave to the crowd after Romney made his concession speech in Boston. UPI

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Another shot of Romney and his wife greeting their supporters Getty Images

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Romney pauses while making a gracious concession speech at his election night event in Boston. UPI

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Romney arrives on stage to concede the election to President Obama. AFP/Getty Images

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Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan waves to supporters in Boston. AFP/Getty Images

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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan look at the menu at a Richmont Heights, Ohio Wendy’s on Election Day. AFP/Getty Images

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At Wendy’s, Romney and Ryan posed for an employee’s photo. AFP/Getty Images

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And, they shook hands with workers at the fast-food restaurant. REUTERS

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Los Angeles residents vote at the Alhambra Fire Station #71 in California. AFP/Getty Images

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Jay Leno arrives at a polling station in Beverly Hills to cast his vote. Richard Beetham / Splash News

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“Mad Men” star January Jones votes at a polling place in Studio City, CA. EM43 / Splash News

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Ryan Phillippe brought his son Deacon with him to vote. Clint Brewer / Splash News

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Obama and Romney cookie trays beckon shoppers at the Oakmont Bakery in Oakmont, Pennsylvania today. Getty Images

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Under the lights of a generator, voters wait in line outside of a tent serving as a polling site in the Midland Beach section of Staten Island today. AP

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Mark Benson rolls a voting machine from its original site, a school, to the new site, a tent in a neighboring park, in the early morning darkness in the Midland Beach section of Staten Island. AP

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Under the lights of a generator, poll worker John DeSilva moves voting booths into a tent serving as a polling site in the Midland Beach section of Staten Island. AP

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Poll workers try to start an optical scanner voting machine in the cold and dark at the Midland Beach polling station in Staten Island. AP

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The aftermath of Sandy also affected polling places in the Rockaways, which are located in tents. Here, election workers help a voter finalize his affidavit ballot at a consolidated polling station for residents of the Rockaways. AP

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Voters check in before casting their ballots under a tent at a consolidated polling station for residents of the Rockaways in Queens. AP

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A man and his wife vote in a polling site built to service residents of the Queens neighborhoods of Breezy Point and the Rockaways. REUTERS

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People vote at a polling station set up for those affected by Hurricane Sandy in an art gallery at John Jay College. Reuters

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A security guard shouts directions at people waiting in a line wrapping around a building to vote outside a polling station at John Jay College. REUTERS

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A woman looks over her ballot at a displaced polling center in Coney Island. REUTERS

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A man presents his voter ID card to a poll worker at a displaced polling center in Coney Island. REUTERS

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Sarah Jessica Parker votes in Greenwich Village. Doug Meszler / Splash News

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Sarah Jessica Parker flashes her Obama shirt after voting. Doug Meszler / Splash News

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Mayor Bloomberg waits in line to vote in a school on New York’s Upper East Side. AP

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Another shot of Mayor Bloomberg voting AP

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People line up to vote at a damaged polling station set up for those affected by Hurricane Sandy in Hoboken, New Jersey. REUTERS

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People read instructions regarding the use of vote scanning machines at a polling station set up for those affected by Hurricane Sandy in Hoboken, New Jersey. REUTERS

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House Speaker John Boehner presents a photo ID as he votes at Ronald Reagan Lodge in West Chester, Ohio. AP

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A woman casts her vote at a scanning machine in Olmsted Falls, Ohio. Reuters

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People vote at a polling site at the Toledo Police Museum in Ohio. EPA

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Voters use floor space and stand when booths were not available while filling out paper ballots at Tremont Elementary School in Cleveland, Ohio. AFP/Getty Images

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Voters wait in front of the Mt. Pleasant Library in Cleveland, Ohio. AFP/Getty Images

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Rain couldn’t keep voters in St. Petersburg, Florida away as people carrying umbrellas line up to cast their ballots. Getty Images

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Long lines like this one in Arlington, Virginia were found throughout the swing state. EPA

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People wait in an estimated two-hour long line, that goes down the street and around the block, to vote at a polling site in Arlington, Virginia. EPA

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Another long line in Arlington EPA

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The line for voters at the Boston Public Library stretched up a spiral staircase. AFP/Getty Images

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A woman helps her three-year-old daughter cast her vote in Janesville, Wisconsin. Getty Images

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People prepare to cast their ballots inside polling booths just after midnight on Election Day in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the very first voting to take place in the 2012 US presidential election. Obama and Romney each received 5 votes to tie in this early matchup. AFP/Getty Images

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People wait in line in the pre-dawn hours to vote at Nottoway Park in Vienna, Virginia. EPA

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Another shot of the pre-dawn line to vote at a historic property called the Hunter House at Nottoway Park in Vienna, Virginia. EPA

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President Obama cast his ballot on Oct. 25, so on Election Day he called a volunteer from a campaign office in Chicago, Illinois. AFP/Getty Images

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Vice President Joe Biden holds the hand of his granddaughter as he arrives with his family to vote in Greenville, Delaware. REUTERS

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Biden exits the voting booth after casting his ballot. AP

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And, he waves and flashes his signature smile. AP

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Mitt Romney and his wife Ann cast their votes in Belmont, Massachusetts. AFP/Getty Images

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Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan shows his ballot to his daughter Liza as his wife Janna looks on (left), while voting at the Hedberg Public Library in Janesville, Wis. AP

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