BOSTON — At his campaign’s Election Night rally here, Mitt Romney offered a short concession speech bringing to an end a decade-long quest for the presidency that stretched across two elections, one …

President Obama Wins Second Term

CHICAGO, IL — President Obama’s historic presidency will continue into a second term.

Projections show Obama defeating Mitt Romney in enough states to earn a majority in the electoral college, though slightly less of one than Obama won in 2008. Despite late hopes from Romney that momentum might carry him to an upset victory, the president resoundingly defeated Romney in nearly every battleground. The huge crowd at his rally in Chicago grew louder, reaching delirious heights, as NBC’s call of the linchpin battleground state of Ohio put Obama over the top.

Angus King Wins Maine Senate Seat

Former Independent Maine Gov. Angus King will be the next US Senator from the state, replacing retiring Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe.

King bested Republican candidate and Secretary of State Charlie Summers and Democratic nominee state Sen. Cynthia Dill, in a race called early on Tuesday night by major television networks and the AP. King had been hitting nearly 50 percent in opinion polls before Election Day.

“Tonight the people of Maine have said, ‘Enough. This far and no farther. We respect political differences, but we want to move a little closer to the center, to solutions … to mutual respect.’ That’s the message of today’s election,” King told supporters as reported by the Portland Press-Herald. “Today, we got a little closer.”

Linda McMahon Gives Master Class In False Flag GOTV

Reports out of Connecticut on Election Day tell a tale of Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon sure to go down in the annals of GOTV false flag operations.

McMahon’s campaign is closing out the cycle with an appeal to urban and minority voters that looks and feels much like a Democratic campaign effort. Doorhangers call on voters to cast their ballots for President Obama as well as McMahon, promising the pair “will fight for us.” T-shirts mimicking the election gear worn by members of the Service Employees International Union are being donned by pro-McMahon forces at polling places, again tying McMahon to Obama. They read “I Support Obama & McMahon November 6th.” And “sample ballots” bearing McMahon’s campaign bug are being handed out at some urban polling places with just two names on them: McMahon and Obama.

Nowhere does any of this material say McMahon is a Republican or is herself voting for Mitt Romney.

Nate Silver Would Rather Vote For Ebola Than Political Pundits

New York Times polling guru Nate Silver told Stephen Colbert on Monday just what he thinks of political pundits. More than a few commentators have attacked Silver’s FiveThirtyEight election forecast for giving President Obama high odds in the lead-up to Election Day.

“I’m not very pro-pundit, I have to say,” Silver said. “If pundits were on the ballot against, like, I don’t know, Ebola, I might vote Ebola, or third party.”

Jon Stewart Blasts ‘Musical Chairs’ World Of Political Punditry

Jon Stewart on Monday blasted political pundits who are unfazed after their boastful predictions are proved wrong. Thankfully, we’ll know soon enough who won the election. “We’ll know which pundits were wrong, which were wronger and which were, ‘Oh my God, that guy was really wrong,’” Stewart said. “But I can show you a prediction that’s wrong today. It comes via Dick Morris, king of Wrong Mountain, and it concerns accountability for pundits.”

The Best (And Worst) Of The 2012 Campaign

Election Day is finally here and after a year and a half of non-stop campaigning it can’t come fast enough. But before today’s race becomes yesterday’s news and we move on to the transition or the fiscal cliff or (God forbid) the recount, we at TPM wanted to take one last look back at just how far we’ve come.

Nostalgic Obama Asks Iowans For Their Help One Last Time

An emotional President Obama finished his campaign in Des Moines, Iowa on Monday night, the state that launched his unlikely road to the presidency in 2008.

“I’ve come back to Iowa one more time to ask for your vote,” Obama told the crowd, his voice hoarse from relentless campaigning. “I came back to ask you to help us finish what we’ve started.”

Republicans Still Grumble About Romney As Campaign Winds Down

MANCHESTER, NH — The grassroots Republican criticism of Mitt Romney that has dogged his presidential bid since the start wasn’t absent at one of his last major rallies Monday night. It’s not they don’t think he’ll win. They just still aren’t thrilled with the campaign he’s run.

Even at this late hour, it seems Romney still hasn’t convinced the grassroots GOP that he knows how to do this.

Romney Supporters Ready To Blame Government Moochers If Obama Wins

FAIRFAX, Va. — If President Obama wins re-election on Tuesday, retired Army Colonel Allen Wild knows exactly who blame: “the 47 percent.” Not the leaked video of Republican nominee Mitt Romney claiming that 47 percent of Americans will vote for Obama because they are dependent on government.

“The takers,” Wild explained to TPM at a Romney rally on the final day of the campaign Monday here at George Mason University. “Those who pay no income tax.”

Wild, like many other Romney supporters who turned out see the former governor, was optimistic that Romney will be the next president. The crowd, which filled George Mason’s Patriot Center while thousands more waited in a spill-over area outside, responded to Romney’s stump speech with thunderous applause.