2012 United States presidential election in Rhode Island (original) (raw)
The 2012 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Rhode Island voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan.
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| dbo:abstract | The 2012 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Rhode Island voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan. Also on the ballot were Libertarian nominee, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and his running mate, jurist Jim Gray. The left-wing Green Party nominated activist and physician Jill Stein and her running mate, anti-poverty advocate Cheri Honkala. Rhode Island was won by Democratic nominee Obama by a 27.46% margin of victory. This was the seventh straight win for the Democratic Party in Rhode Island on the presidential level. It was also the seventh time in a row that the Democratic nominee for president won all 5 counties – a streak which would be broken when Donald Trump won Kent County in 2016 – and the sixth consecutive time that a Republican nominee failed to break 40% of the vote in the Ocean State. Rhode Island has been a safe Democratic state since 1988, and has only voted for a Republican nominee four times since 1928 (all of which in landslide elections). State politics are dominated by the Providence and Warwick metropolitan areas, and Providence County gave Obama his largest margin in the state at 34.92%. However, white working class voters in the inland and diverse, urban voters on the coast alike consistently vote Democratic, enough to provide the Democratic nominee with landslide margins in each election. This election is the most recent election that Rhode Island voted to the left of Massachusetts. As of 2020, this was the last time the towns of Burrillville, Coventry, Exeter, Foster, Glocester, Hopkinton, Johnston, North Smithfield, and Smithfield voted for the Democratic candidate in a presidential election, and the last time East Greenwich voted for the Republican candidate in a presidential election. (en) Die US-Präsidentschaftswahl in Rhode Island 2012 fand am 6. November 2012 als Teil der Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten 2012 statt, an der alle 50 Staaten und Washington, D.C. teilnahmen. Die Wähler in Rhode Island wählten 4 Wahlmänner, die für den Präsidenten und den Vizepräsidenten stimmten. Barack Obama erhielt 62,70 % der Stimmen in Rhode Island und gewann die 4 Wahlmänner des Bundesstaates. Mitt Romney erhielt 35,24 % der Stimmen. Bundesweit konnte sich Barack Obama gegen seinen Herausforderer durchsetzen. Er erhielt 51,06 % der abgegebenen Stimmen und 332 Wahlmänner, Mitt Romney 47,21 % und 206 Wahlmänner. (de) |
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| rdfs:comment | The 2012 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Rhode Island voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan. (en) Die US-Präsidentschaftswahl in Rhode Island 2012 fand am 6. November 2012 als Teil der Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten 2012 statt, an der alle 50 Staaten und Washington, D.C. teilnahmen. Die Wähler in Rhode Island wählten 4 Wahlmänner, die für den Präsidenten und den Vizepräsidenten stimmten. Barack Obama erhielt 62,70 % der Stimmen in Rhode Island und gewann die 4 Wahlmänner des Bundesstaates. Mitt Romney erhielt 35,24 % der Stimmen. (de) |
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