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The Romney campaign’s last-ditch attempt to put blue-leaning Midwestern swing states in play failed as Obama’s Midwestern firewall sent the president back to the White House for four more years. Obama picked up the swing states of New Hampshire, Michigan, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Ohio. Florida and Virginia are still too close to call, but even if he won them, they would not give Romney enough Electoral College votes to put him over the top

Polls in 40 states have already closed, including the polls in all but two crucial swing states. ABC News has projected that Romney will win 18 red states, while Obama will carry 13 states and Washington D.C. So far, networks have called five crucial swing states–Michigan, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania–for Obama