President Barack Obama handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term on Tuesday after an historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states.
The Romney campaign’s last-ditch attempt to put blue-leaning Midwestern swing states in play failed as Obama’s Midwestern firewall sent the president back to the White House for four more years. Obama picked up the swing states of New Hampshire, Michigan, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Ohio.