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2012 presidential candidates Barack Obama and…
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Jessica Clark, center, reacts after watching election results in Times Square in New York City on Nov. 6, 2012. …
Minutes after polls on the West Coast had closed Tuesday night — and even before votes in Florida, Ohio, and Virginia had been counted — news outlets declared President Barack Obama the winner of the 2012 election.
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“Today we congratulate President Obama on his re-election,” Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, the executive director and co-founder of MomsRising, said in a statement. “We’re ready to move forward with him to ensure that we close the gender wage gap, to see health care reform fully implemented so that all our families get the health care they need, and to secure earned sick days for all workers.”
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In Boston, Mitt Romney supporters were subdued as they handed out American flags and waited for their candidate to appear on stage. Once he did, he was sure to thank his supporters, his running mate Paul Ryan, his sons, and his wife, Ann, whom he called “the love of my life.”
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