Politics & Government

Barack Obama Wins Pennsylvania

Voters in Pennsylvania on Tuesday cast their ballot for Barack Obama, giving the president the state's 20 electoral votes.

Mutliple media outlets are calling President Barack Obama the projected winner of  Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes.

In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for Barack Obama, and since the 1990s, has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race 3 out of 5 times.

Romney and Obama campaigned aggressively in Pennsylvania. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections. 

Romney spent part of Election Day in Pittsburgh and

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On Monday, former President Bill Clinton was in the Philadelphia suburbs and Romney surrogates, including former New York swept through eastern Pennsylvania, including a stop at Bethlehem's Westgate Mall.


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