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President Barack Obama was officially re-elected on Friday with the tallying of the Electoral College vote during a joint session of Congress.
As expected, Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. won 332 electoral votes, exceeding the 270 necessary for a majority of the 538 votes. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., won 206 votes.
The quadrennial occasion is constitutionally mandated to certify the presidential election. But its largely a formality, and the only surprise may have been the scant number of members of the House and Senate who witnessed it far fewer than four years ago, when Obama was set to become the countrys first African-American president.
About a half-dozen senators processed into a relatively empty House chamber behind Biden, who in his duty as Senate president gaveled in the joint session and kicked off the vote counting, which took less than 30 minutes.
Read more: Obama Officially Re-Elected During Joint Session of Congress | At the Races
As expected, Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. won 332 electoral votes, exceeding the 270 necessary for a majority of the 538 votes. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., won 206 votes.
The quadrennial occasion is constitutionally mandated to certify the presidential election. But its largely a formality, and the only surprise may have been the scant number of members of the House and Senate who witnessed it far fewer than four years ago, when Obama was set to become the countrys first African-American president.
About a half-dozen senators processed into a relatively empty House chamber behind Biden, who in his duty as Senate president gaveled in the joint session and kicked off the vote counting, which took less than 30 minutes.
Read more: Obama Officially Re-Elected During Joint Session of Congress | At the Races
