Let's see, and what words was the media using to describe this election? "razor-thin", "Dead Heat", "Neck & neck"
TIS
Yeah. In reflection, the election looks less and less close. The President hit 48% in every battleground/swing state. (He only lost North Carolina, and even then he still scored 48.4%. How times have changed for Jesse Helms' state.) Romney managed to reach 48% in just two of them. In fact, he only reached 47% or better in just 4 of those 9 states. He also underperformed his national popular vote (47.4) in six of those states, while Obama overperformed his in six of the nine.
Obama could've lost every state he won by less than 5.4 points (Florida, Ohio, and Virginia), and he
still would've won the EV count 272-266. Obama could've also lost every state that he won by seven or fewer points, and he still wouldn't have lost (217 EVs) as badly as Romney did (206 EVs).
And nevermind our unemployment rate is 7.9%, the highest ever for a re-elected incumbent President since FDR. How Romney, the "economy" candidate, end up beating the President on the economy question in exit polls by merely ONE POINT, will be endlessly examined abd become the butt of jokes for years to come among political scientists and professional partisans. (Notice how much the right wing have piled on Romney, even if they're a damn good reason why the "team" lost an election they could've...maybe should've...won.)