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The Democratic margin of victory also made 2012 the first time since 1948 that Virginia voted more Democratic than the nation as a whole, albeit by a narrow advantage of 0.02%: These were ultimately signs of Virginia's continuing leftward shift, after it had been a mostly reliable state for Republicans on the presidential level since 1952.
Mitt Romney won the Virginia Republican primary with 59.5% of the vote compared to the Ron Paul's 40.5%.. Later in the year Romney went on to stand against Barack Obama as a Republican in the 2012 US presidential election however Romney failed to secure the state's seat, losing out to Democratic candidate Barack Obama who gained 51.1% of the Virginian vote.
Virginia was one of the first states with a poll tax. In the modern era, 20 percent of the state's African-American residents who are old enough to vote are disenfranchised by felon voting laws. Compare with 2008 Winner: Obama
The 2012 election marked the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's last two re-elections in 1940 and 1944 that the Democrats won a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections. [152] Obama was also the first president of either party to secure a majority of the popular vote in two elections since Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 ...
The 2012 United States Senate election in Virginia took place on November 6, 2012, concurrently with the 2012 U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 2012 United States elections took place on November 6, 2012. Democratic President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term and the Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress , retaining control of the Senate even though the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives .
Super Tuesday 2012 is the name for March 6, 2012, the day on which the largest simultaneous number of state presidential primary elections was held in the United States. It included Republican primaries in seven states and caucuses in three states, totaling 419 delegates (18.2% of the total).
2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia; 2012 Virginia ballot measures; H. Hank the Cat; U. 2012 United States presidential election in ...