It's been nearly two months since the 2012 election, but the final numbers are now in. And in a joint session, Congress certified the election returns yesterday. There are still those who say that the president barely won re-election in a very close election, but that is just not true. President Obama beat Willard Mitt Romney by about 5 million popular votes and 126 electoral votes -- and the president won the majority of states. That's a resounding victory, especially when most of the political pundits had considered him to be very vulnerable. Here's how Bloomberg News sums it up:Barack Obama is the first president in more than five decades to win at least 51 percent of the national popular vote twice. . .
The president nationally won 65.9 million votes -- or 51.1 percent -- against Republican challenger
Mitt Romney, who took 60.9 million votes and 47.2 percent of the total cast, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.Obama is the first president to achieve the 51 percent mark in two elections since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, who did it in 1952 and 1956, and the first Democrat to do so sinceFranklin D. Roosevelt, who won four consecutive White House races. Roosevelt received 53.4 percent of the vote -- his lowest -- in his last race in 1944.The president won the popular vote in 26 states and the District of Columbia, totaling 332 electoral votes, or 62 more than the 270 needed to win the presidency. Romney won 24 states with 206 electoral votes.
