Electoral College: 04:15 – Romney’s Paths Gone, Obama Wins!

A bunch of states were called between 04:00 UTC and 04:15 UTC:

• Obama: CA, HA, WA, WI, IA NM
• Romney: ID, MT, NC

Only one of these mattered. Iowa. Iowa was a close state. Romney needed every close state he had left in order to win. Without Iowa, even if Romney swept every other close state (and Maine’s 2nd) he would only get to 264.

When CNN called Iowa at 04:09 UTC, I called the race on twitter in these two tweets. Nine minutes later when some more states came in, CNN called the election for Obama. They were slow. More on those next states in the next update.

Anyway, Obama wins reelection!