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President Barack Obama and supporters celebrate victory at McCormick Place, on November 7, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Jill Biden and supporters celebrate victory. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
President Obama's supporters celebrate victory. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney walks onto stage to give his concession speech after losing the election to President Obama, during his election night rally in Boston, November 7, 2012. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivers his concession speech during his election night rally in Boston, November 7, 2012. Rick Wilking/Reuters
President Obama addresses his supporters at McCormick Place, on November 7, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Pierre Andre Evans and Romillie Adams celebrate President Obama's victory by dancing at McCormick Place, on November 7, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Ajay Narayan cheers as the race is called for US President Barack Obama by a television network during the Nevada State Democrats' election night party at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sam Morris/Las Vegas Sun/Reuters
Supporters of US President Barack Obama cheer during his election night rally in Chicago. Philip Scott-Andrews/Reuters
Former Democratic state Rep. Joyce Beatty (l.) celebrates with Rev. Jesse Jackson at the Ohio Democratic party election night celebration in Columbus, Ohio. Beatty was elected in the newly drawn 3rd Congressional District. Tony Dejak/AP
A U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney supporter holds a flag after President Barack Obama was re-elected at the Romney election night rally in Boston, Massachusetts. Eric Thayer/Reuters
Supporters, from left, Kelly Jolley, Lindsay John, and Tami Hemingway Smith react as the watch televised reports projecting President Obama as the winner during a Democratic Party election party in Salt Lake City, Utah. Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/AP
Supporters watch voting returns at the Election Night rally for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Boston. Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters
A supporter watches the election results at the Election Night party for President Obama in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP
Supporters react to the election results at the election night party for President Barack Obama in Chicago. M. Spencer Green/AP
Supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama cheer the news of the president's apparent re-election during his election night rally in Chicago. Jeff Haynes/Reuters
Someone dressed as the character Cookie Monster watches TV screens in Times Square giving presidential election results in New York on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Supporters cheer as election results are announced at the election night party for President Barack Obama in Chicago. M. Spencer Green/AP
Martha Nunez of the Bronx reacts to positive predictions for President Obama as crowds watch election results in Times Square in New York. John Minchillo/AP
President Barack Obama calls Wisconsin volunteers as he visits a campaign office call center the morning of the 2012 election. Carolyn Kaster/AP
David French, of Columbia, Tenn., consoles his son Austin as they watch vote results displayed on a screen during the election night rally for Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Boston. David Goldman/AP
Supporters embrace after hearing voting returns at the Election Night rally for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Boston. Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters
President Barack Obama supporters celebrate televised reports of his projected re-election for president of the United States during a rally at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. Jose Luis Magana/AP
Members of the National Guard walk past a house damaged by Superstorm Sandy as it is painted with an American flag in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, New York, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Seth Wenig/AP
A large media group awaits President Obama before his Election Night rally in Chicago. Larry Downing/Reuters
Jalyn Wilson, 6, waits while her grandmother stands in line to vote at the Clarence Cuffee Community Center in Chesapeake, Va. Virginia is a key battleground state in the presidential race. Amanda Lucier/The Virginian-Pilot/AP
Dora A. Winter looks up after an 'I Voted' sticker was placed on her forehead at Karcher Church of the Nazarene on Election Day in Nampa, Idaho. Adam Eschbach/Idaho Press-Tribune/AP
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, talks on the phone with the store supervisor as he and his vice presidential running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., make an unscheduled stop at a Wendy's restaurant in Richmond Heights, Ohio. Charles Dharapak/AP
Clark County elections official Miguel Rivera takes ballots from motorists outside the Clark County Elections office in Vancouver, Wash. Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian/AP
Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb's shadow is projected against a backdrop during the state's GOP watch party in Oklahoma City on Election Day. Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman/AP
President Barack Obama buttons at the Obama field office located on Wyoming Avenue in Scranton, Pa. Butch Comegys/Scranton Times & Tribune/AP
After casting his vote, World War II Navy veteran Robert Carper waits for his wife at the Cave Spring precinct at the Church of the Holy Spirit, in Roanoke County, Va. Mr. Carper said he voted for the first time in 1944 – Franklin Roosevelt vs. Thomas Dewey. Kyle Green/The Roanoke Times/AP
A voter casts her ballot in the Old Town Hall on Westport Island, Maine. Former Sen. Olympia Snowe's US Senate seat is up for grabs in Maine. Robert F. Bukaty/AP
A voter leaves a polling station outside Hayden Park in Phoenix. Joshua Lott/Reuters
Gina Dos Santos votes at the Venice Beach lifeguard station in Los Angeles. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Cooks Horacio Contrares and Juan Carvantes (r.) look on as voters cast their ballots at Taquerias Los Comales in Chicago. John Gress/Reuters
Voters fill the booths at the Stockton Community Center in Stockton, Minn. After enduring a grinding presidential campaign, Americans are heading into polling places across the country. Andrew Link/Winona Daily News/AP
Voters cast their ballots in the general election at Kirkwood Community Center in Kirkwood, Mo. Missourians will decide a close Senate race between the GOP's Todd Akin and Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill. Jeff Roberson/AP
Hal Pigg is reflected in an image of a flag, as he casts his vote in Jamul, Calif. Gregory Bull/AP
Carol Burton, an Obama campaign volunteer, searches for a location to place election day signs before polls open on Tuesday morning, Nov. 6, 2012 in Austin, Texas. Tamir Kalifa/AP
Second-graders Brayden Gentzyel (l.), as President Obama, and Harry Perkins (r.), dressed as Mitt Romney, from Valley View Elementary School in the York Suburban School District in York, Pa., lead a parade of students around the school to encourage people to vote. Jason Plotkin/York Daily Record/AP
North Myrtle Beach Primary school student Amber Chandler casts her vote in a mock presidential election Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Steve Jessmore/The Sun News/AP
Poll worker Chris Theriot hands out an 'I Voted Today!' sticker after a resident placed her ballot in the box at the North Street School in Greenwich, Conn. Charles Krupa/AP
A sign erected by a community group called Rebuild Rockaway shows voting locations in the Rockaway neighborhoods of the borough of Queens, New York, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Craig Ruttle/AP
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, New York. The original polling site, a school, was damaged by Superstorm Sandy. Seth Wenig/AP
Horse Gall precinct clerk David Smith (r.) greets voter Paul Hiers at the home of Vincent Smith in Varnville, South Carolina. The polling place for the US presidential and local elections is located in the den of David Smith's father's home. Randall Hill/Reuters
Victor "Snake Man" Wolder, marks his choices while voting during election day in Las Vegas. Julie Jacobson/AP
Voters cast their ballots at Legend Elementary School in Newark, Ohio. Matt Sullivan/Reuters
In Fairfax County, Virginia, a voter holds a voting permit and ID card at the Washington Mill Elementary School near Mount Vernon. J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Chyniah Woods, 8, watches her mother Kesia Woods vote for the very first time at the Concord 15th precinct at Rosedale Highrise in Elkhart, Ind. Jennifer Shephard/The Elkhart Truth/AP
Penny the Boston Terrier votes with her owners, Amy O'Neill (l.) and girlfriend Michelle Nowakowski in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sara Stathas/Reuters
Samantha Pelletier shows off the voting sticker that was placed on her pregnant belly outside of the old Town Hall in Bristol, New Hampshire. Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters
A man walks into his polling place, Star Bridge Christian Center, before sunrise to cast his ballot in the general election in Wildwood, Mo. Jeff Roberson/AP
Nancy Tassey casts her ballot next to the wood stove on Election Day at the Town Hall in Calais, Vt. Toby Talbot/AP
President Barack Obama is applauded as he visits with volunteers at a campaign office the morning of the 2012 election in Chicago. Carolyn Kaster/AP
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney kisses his wife Ann after voting in Belmont, Massachusetts. Brian Snyder/Reuters
Voters wait in line to receive absentee ballots at the Wayne County Community College Northwest Campus in Detroit, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. David Guralnick/Detroit News/AP
Officer of Election Harold Puckett readies a voting machine at the Highland precinct 1, located at the Roanoke Scottish Rite Building in Roanoke, Va. Kyle Green/The Roanoke Times/AP
Poll worker Don Hardegger (c.) checks a voter's information at the Sioux Falls, S.D. Fire Station 7. Hardegger, 77, said that by 7:40 a.m., the turnout was already "nice and steady." Elijah Van Benschoten/AP
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