Today is election day 2012 and electoral college maps across the internet are showing that President Barack Obama is in the lead over Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Many predicitions for the electoral college show that Obama has the lead in the election, but it could be a very close race. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the election and there are a total of 538 electoral votes. The total is based on the voting membership of the United States Congress of 435 Representatives and 100 Senators, plus three electors from the District of Columbia.
The electoral college ultimately elects the next President of the United States. Candidates may lose the popular vote among citizens, but they can still become President if they win the Electoral College vote. This may seem unfair but this system was set of to ensure a nationwide system of fairness in the election. When a citizen casts their vote for president, they also vote for an elector who casts a ballot in a separate election which determines the winner.
Several electoral maps that show predicted results have appeared on the internet and many of them have President Obama in the lead.
According to the electoral college map on Real Clear Politics, President Obama has 201 electoral votes and Romney has 191 electoral votes, while 146 "toss up" votes could go either way. This map shows that Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and New Hampshire are the states in which the vote is a toss-up.
In a Rasmussen Electoral Map, President Obama also has the lead with 237 electoral votes. Romney has 206 and 95 votes could go either way. This map shows that Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, Florida and New Hampshire are the states in which the vote is a toss-up and could go either way.
According to a map on PolicyMic, President Obama also has the lead with 295 electoral votes while Romney has 220, which would make President Obama the winner. The map shows that Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsyslvania, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Florida are the toss-up states.
Much of the information on these maps is based on predicitions and the ways that these states tend to vote during elections, but if these predicitions are correct, it looks like President Obama will get another term.
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