President Obama Wins, Seals Victory With A Tweet

It will be four more years for President Obama. After the most expensive presidential campaign in history, Obama secured a second term shortly after 11:15 p.m. ET, celebrating his hard-fought victory with an appropriately modern-age touch: a tweet.

With the simple message, "four more years," Obama posted a picture in which he is seen hugging first lady Michelle Obama.



After a nail-biting evening in which he ran neck-and-neck with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for much of the night, Obama was able to secure the necessary 270 electoral votes by taking one of the biggest prizes of the night: Ohio. At press time, the final tally according to CNN was 274 electoral votes to 201 for Obama, with the president slightly behind in the popular vote by a 50-49 percent margin, with fewer than 700,000 votes separating them.


The good news for Obama was tempered by the fact that the president would once again face a divided congress, with Republicans retaining a majority in the House and Democrats a razor-thin lead in the Senate. Pundits immediately predicted that Obama would need to make a move to mend fences with Republicans in his second term in order to secure more cooperation on his ambitious agenda, which includes major legislation on immigration, the environment and tax reform.

MTV News correspondents James Montgomery and Andrew Jenks were at Romney and Obama headquarters, as both candidates waited out the results. Before the final numbers were announced, young voter Sophia at Obama HQ was overwhelmed by the electricity inside McCormick Place as the throng of supporters watched the results roll in.

"It's electric. It's amazing," she told MTV News. "I'm so excited to be here."

source: mtv.com

Stevie Wonder, Dave Matthews, Pitbull and More Rally for Obama

A high-profile cast of musicians fanned out in support of President Obama at rallies around the country over the weekend as part of a final push in his re-election campaign, according to multiple news reports. John Mellencamp appeared with Obama in Iowa, Stevie Wonder warmed up a crowd in Cincinnati, Pitbull introduced the president in Hollywood, Florida, and Dave Matthews joined Obama Saturday in Bristow, Virginia, and yesterday in  Aurora, Colorado.

Wonder, who recently released a song for Obama, joked with the crowd in Ohio before he played "Sir Duke," saying, "You know, I've not looked at either candidate," then pausing for a wave of laughter as the joke sank in. "So it's not based on that, the color of their skin. But I must tell you, it's based on their spirit."

Pitbull didn't perform in Florida, but the first-generation Cuban-American did talk about "what my family went through to be able to appreciate the opportunity that this country gives me," and emphasized a sense of commonality.

"We ain't got to worry about those that dislike and – I don't like to use this word because to me it's a bad word – but those that hate," the Cuban-American rapper told the crowd. "All we got to worry about is sticking together and doing this together, and that's what we're doing here today. So it doesn't matter whether we're, mira, Latino, black, pink, purple, orange, white, it doesn't matter, because we're all Americans."

Neil Diamond and Burt Bacharach showed their support a different way, according to The Hollywood Reporter, dropping by an Obama phone bank in Los Angeles to sing "Sweet Caroline" for get-out-the-vote volunteers making calls. Diamond stayed afterward to help with phone calls, tweeting, "Working the phones for Obama . . . If I call you, don't hang up. It's really me and I need you."

Also, Katy Perry played her third Obama event in Milwaukee yesterday, and Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z join the president for rallies today. Election Day is tomorrow.

source: rollingstone.com