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    U.S. President Barack Obama walks on stage with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia to deliver his victory speech on election night at McCormick Place November 6, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama won reelection against Republican candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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    CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 06: U.S. President Barack Obama walks on stage with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia to deliver his victory speech on election night at McCormick Place November 6, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama won reelection against Republican candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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    CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 06: U.S. President Barack Obama walks on stage with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia to deliver his victory speech on election night at McCormick Place November 6, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama won reelection against Republican candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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    LAS VEGAS, NV - NOVEMBER 06: Romney supporter Alicia Hayes (L) is comforted by her mother, Karen Hayes, as she reacts after hearing that President Barack Obama was declared the winner at an election night watch party at The Venetian on November 6, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Voters went to polls in the heavily contested presidential race between incumbent U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)
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    CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 06: Supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama cheer during the Obama Election Night watch party at McCormick Place November 6, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama is going for reelection against Republican candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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    CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 06: Supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama cheer after networks project Obama as reelected during the Obama Election Night watch party at McCormick Place November 6, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Networks project Obama has won reelection against Republican candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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    Supporters cheer as they learn that President Barack Obama is re-elected during an election night watch party on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)
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    President Barack Obama supporters cheer California being declared for Obama during election night viewing party at McCormick Place in Chicago on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. (Scott Strazzante/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
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    Supporters cheer as election results are announced at the election night party for President Barack Obama Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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    Supporters react to the election results at the election night party for President Barack Obama Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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    A young supporter waves a flag at the election night party for President Barack Obama Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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    Joanne Smith speaks during an interview at an election night rally in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Obama was projected the winner in the battleground states of Wisconsin and New Hampshire, according to television networks, as well as in Pennsylvania, thwarting Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s late bid for a victory in that state. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Joanne Smith
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    BOSTON, MA - NOVEMBER 06: Spectators react to the election results displayed on large televisions during Mitt Romney's campaign election night event at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on November 6, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts. Voters went to polls in the heavily contested presidential race between incumbent U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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    CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 06: Supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama cheer after networks project Obama as reelected during the Obama Election Night watch party at McCormick Place November 6, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Networks project Obama has won reelection against Republican candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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    Seth Wenig - AP
    Poll workers Eva Prenga, right, Roxanne Blancero, center, and Carole Sevchuk try to start an optical scanner voting machine in the cold and dark at a polling station in a tent in the Midland Beach section of Staten Island, New York, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. The original polling site, a school, was damaged by Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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    People ride atop a vehicle waving a Puerto Rican flag during elections in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Puerto Ricans are electing a governor as the U.S. island territory does not get a vote in the U.S. presidential election. But they are also casting ballots in a referendum that asks voters if they want to change the relationship to the United States. A second question gives voters three alternatives: become the 51st U.S. state, independence, or sovereign free association, a designation that would give more autonomy. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
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    2-year-old Liana Brinkerhoff, top left, looks on while sitting on the shoulder of her farther at a polling place in Billings, Mont., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. After a grinding presidential campaign, Americans are heading into polling places across the country.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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    Voting booths are illuminated by sunlight as voters cast their ballots at a polling place in Billings, Mont., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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    Reed Saxon - AP
    After voting, Mike Weigart, 30, carries his ballot and his surfboard to the ballot box at the polling place at the Venice Beach lifeguard headquarters in Los Angeles Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Weigart said "It's awesome the polling place is where I surf." (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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    Patrick Semansky - AP
    Voters cast their ballots at a polling place inside St. Leo's Catholic Church in Baltimore on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. After a grinding presidential campaign President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, yield center stage to American voters Tuesday for an Election Day choice that will frame the contours of government and the nation for years to come. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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    Charles Rex Arbogast - AP
    Leslie Fabian concentrates as she votes electronically inside at the 24-hour Su Nueva Laundromat in Chicago's 13th Ward Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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    Joseph Kaczmarek - AP
    People cast their votes Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, at polling location inside the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Northeast Philadelphia, where a mural of President Barack Obama painted on a wall behind two voting booths was ordered covered up by a Philadelphia court. The mural had been left uncovered when the polling location opened, but was ordered covered after Republicans filed a complaint. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)
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    Ed Lippman, 58, wears a message on his jacket on Election Day while walking home, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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    A stuffed loon overlooks voters in the Old Town Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, on Westport Island, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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    Volunteer Clare Frew puts away a life-size cut out of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as she prepares to close the Chatham County Republican Campaign office, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Savannah, Ga. After a grinding presidential campaign, Americans are heading into polling places across the country. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
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    Voters arrive and depart Devenger Road Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Greer, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
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    Rainier Ehrhardt - AP
    Voters cast their ballots whils others wait in line at the Mauldin Fire Station on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Mauldin, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
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    Rainier Ehrhardt - AP
    Voters wait in line to cast their ballots at the Mauldin Fire Station on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Mauldin, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
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    Rainier Ehrhardt - AP
    Voters wait in line prior to the polls opening at Devenger Road Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Greer, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
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    Jason DeCrow - AP
    Voters fill out their ballots under a tent at a consolidated polling station for residents of the Rockaways on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in the Queens borough of New York. Election Day turnout was heavy in several storm-ravaged areas in New York and New Jersey, with many voters expressing relief and even elation at being able to vote at all, considering the devastation. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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    Carolyn Delauder, right, waits in line to cast her ballot at the Mauldin Fire Station on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Mauldin, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
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    Toby Talbot - AP
    Town Clerk Donna Fitch posts a vote sign in front of the Town Hall where voters will cast their ballots on Election Day,Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 in Calais, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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    Gerry Broome - AP
    Melissa McBrien and son Tyler, 11 months, exit a polling precinct after voting at the Wake County Firearms Education and Training Center on Election Day in Apex, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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    Seth Wenig - 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, on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. The original polling site, a school, was damaged by Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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    Toby Talbot - AP
    Voters line up to cast their ballots in the Town Hall on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 in Calais, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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    Toby Talbot - AP
    A voter casts his ballot in the Town Hall on Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 in Calais, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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    Dave Martin - AP
    Snow surrounds the polling precinct in Terra Alta, W.Va., as Peter Hough heads to work after casting his ballot on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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