Obama wins second term, Fox News projects

President Obama won a second White House term Tuesday night, overcoming concerns about the fragile economic recovery to soundly defeat Republican nominee Mitt Romney. "We've got more work to do," Obama declared, addressing a cheering crowd at his victory rally in Chicago early Wednesday morning. Obama spoke to supporters at his campaign headquarters shortly after Romney called the president to concede. Obama congratulated his opponent on a "hard-fought campaign." After one of the nastiest political battles and most gridlocked terms in modern American history, the president vowed to reach out to the other side in a second term on everything from immigration to the deficit. He asked supporters to keep the "hope" and said that while the "passions" and "controversy" won't wane after Election Day, "progress will come in fits and starts." President Obama will win re-election, Fox News projects. The call comes after the president was the projected winner in the crucial battleground of Ohio, and subsequently won both Iowa and Oregon. This put Obama over the required 270 electoral votes. ORIGINAL STORY ... Mitt Romney claimed his first battleground prize of the night with a projected victory in North Carolina, answering an early string of swing-state victories Tuesday by President Obama. ammy Baldwin captured Wisconsin's open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, becoming both the state's first female senator and the first openly gay candidate to be elected to the chamber. The seven-term congresswoman from Madison held off a political comeback by Republican former Gov. Tommy Thompson, handing him his first defeat in a statewide race. A sullen Thompson, surrounded by his family and Gov. Scott Walker, said he wasn't going away, though the loss likely spells the end of a storied career in politics that began in 1966 and included 14 years as governor and a run for president.

Fox News on voter supression

Polls have begun to open across America after two tiny villages in northern New Hampshire kicked off the 2012 election by casting the first Election Day votes early Tuesday. President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney each won five votes in the small town of Dixville Notch, which was the first to announce its results after polls opened and closed within 43 seconds. In Hart's Location Obama won with 23 votes, Romney received 9 and Libertarian Gary Johnson received 1 vote after 5 minutes, 42 seconds of voting. The towns have enjoyed first-vote status since 1948. Meanwhile, Romney was taking his nearly six-year campaign for the presidency all the way to Election Day, making last-minute plans to visit two vital battlegrounds on Tuesday, while Obama held a nighttime rally in Iowa Monday.

Gary Johnson: Obama will win

Gary Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico who became the Libertarian Party presidential nominee this year after a failed GOP presidential bid, believes President Barack Obama will be elected to a second term when all is said and done. “I think Obama’s going to win, that’s what I think,” Johnson said in an interview with Politico. That doesn't mean he supports the president. Johnson told Politico that it doesn't really matter who wins on Tuesday, as both candidates will continue "unsustainable spending."Gary Johnson will almost certainly lose tomorrow’s election, but the Libertarian presidential candidate plans to continue to push his message by personally engaging with the social media following built up over the course of his campaign. While not on par with the millions that follow President Obama and Mitt Romney, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Monday he thinks President Barack Obama will defeat Mitt Romney to win a second term. “I think Obama’s going to win, that’s what I think,” Johnson told POLITICO in an interview. “[My vote is] really spread out, meaning I don’t think there’s any state that I’m going to do better than another.” Johnson, who’s on the ballot in 48 states and the District of Columbia, hovers in single digits in the polls. The former two-term New Mexico governor declined to single out any state where he expected to do particularly well but said he had no regrets about how he ran his campaign.

President Obama and Jay-Z in Columbus, Ohio

Obama supporter Harvey Weinstein has been talking about his decision to air the Navy Seal documentary of the Osama bin Laden raid two days before the election. "I didn't have to do anything to remind people of what Barack Obama did," he tells Piers Morgan with a wide smile Weinstein also jokes that the the acting from the politicans would make the perfect movie. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Which is more powerful: Disgust toward Barack Obama, or distrust of Mitt Romney? Ohio’s answer to the question could well determine who is President for the next four years. This state’s 18 electoral votes are vital in almost every scenario that gets Romney to the magic total of 270. He’s got powerful allies here in Gov. John Kasich and Sen. Rob Portman — and it’s a state that overall seems far more receptive to the GOP than it was in 2008, when Obama beat John McCain by 4.6 percentage points. After carrying out one of the biggest surveys ever, YouGov’s jumbo analysis has found the Democratic president will narrowly pip Republican rival Mitt Romney by two per cent in the overall popular vote. Crucially that will return him to the White House with a victory of 303 votes to 235 in the all-important Electoral College.But it’s here that the incumbent’s vaunted, micro-targeted ground game is in full force, where the economy is coming back to life, and where Obama has been consistently leading by a point or two or three in recent polls. The Real Clear Politics average of Ohio polls puts Obama’s margin at 2.8 percentage points: slim but serious, like the man himself.

African painted dogs kill young boy at Pittsburgh Zoo

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium president Barbara Baker as saying the child, aged about three years old, was with his mother and friends when he fell about 4.5 metres off a deck - and over railing and a mesh barrier - into an exhibit of African painted dogs. When the boy fell, visitors immediately told staff members, who responded along with Pittsburgh police. Zookeepers called off the dogs, and seven of them immediately went to a back building. Three more eventually were drawn away from the boy, but the last dog wouldn't come into the building, and police had to shoot him,.A 2-year-old boy was mauled to death after he fell into the African painted dog exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium, today, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh Police Lt. Kevin Kraus said the boy's mother had placed the child on top of a wooden railing overlooking the enclosure. The child fell off the wooden railing and off of a mesh barrier where the painted dogs were on display. Lt. Kraus said: "Almost immediately after that he lost his balance, fell down off the railing into the actual pit and he was immediately attacked by 11 dogs."The incident occurred at 11:48 a.m. at the Highland Park complex, according to an emergency dispatch supervisor. The zoo was shut down within a half-hour of the incident and will remain closed indefinitely.A group of African painted dogs killed a boy who fell into their exhibit today at the Pittsburgh Zoo. Barbara Baker, the zoo's president, said the child was around 3 years old. He "fell off an observation deck that's about 14 feet above the exhibit," she said, "and was killed by the dogs." "Our emergency teams and our Pittsburgh police responded immediately, but there wasn’t anything that could be done," added Baker.

Liverpool vs. Newcastle United 1-1 All Goals & Full Highlights

Vital Liverpool report from Anfield on a disappointing 1-1 Premier League draw with Newcastle United. A performance and result that fits quite nicely into a pattern that has dogged the club for several months.Luis Suarez often appears to feel it’s him against the world. Yesterday, the odds were better as it was only Newcastle he took on single-handed. The performance from the Liverpool striker ranged from the sublime of his astonishing goal to the ridiculous of the x-rated red card challenge on him from Fabricio Coloccini that was cowardly in intent. Yet the genius of the little South American is a double-edged blessing for the Reds. On the one hand, who wouldn’t want a forward with such audacious skill and vision in your side? At times against the Geordies, his ability to beat a man with a shrug of the hips bordered on the hypnotic.The imponderable it paid the Liverpool manager to ignore against Newcastle United was the state his team would be in had Fabricio Coloccini embedded his studs into Suárez's right knee with six minutes remaining. Coloccini was shown a merited straight red card, to the obvious disgust of his manager Alan Pardew, but Suárez survived and continued to present Liverpool's only threat even with a limp.

Real Madrid vs. Zaragoza 4-0 All Goals & Full Highlights 3/11/2012

Real Madrid made it five Liga games without defeat as they coasted to a straightforward 4-0 victory over Zaragoza at the Santiago Bernabeu. In front of a quiet set of fans, two goals in quick succession, courtesy of Gonzalo Higuain and Angel di Maria, ensured that Los Blancos took a two-goal lead into the break. The visitors were resurgent in the second-half, but Michael Essien and Luka Modric added a pair of late goals as Jose Mourinho earned his 100th win in charge of Madrid. The game began at a relatively tepid tempo, with Zaragoza not afraid to push men forward and attack. Goals by Gonzalo Higuain, Angel di Maria, Michael Essien and Luka Modric secured Real Madrid a 4-0 home win against Zaragoza in the Spanish league on Saturday. Earlier, Barcelona's 3-1 home win over Celta Vigo marked the Catalan club's best start to the league in its 113-year history. Madrid's win keeps it eight points adrift of leaders Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, which was playing late Saturday away against Valencia.Zaragoza's bad luck continued when Hélder Postiga had a "goal" disallowed for offside after a skilful display of ball control. Abraham Minero kept up the pressure and caused panic in Real's defence as he lined up a shot in the 82nd minute only to fire over the crossbar. Cristiano Ronaldo almost scored for Real three minutes later when his fiercely struck free-kick bent back Jiménez's hand only for the ball to bounce off the top of the crossbar.