Barack Obama is projected to return to the White House for a second term as President of the United States.
Multiple news sources, including CBS, CNN and MSNBC, called the race around 8:20 PST, citing a projected victory in the battleground state of Ohio as carrying the President over the 270 electoral vote threshold.
For the full results from the BBC, click here.
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Benjamin Gottlieb is an award-winning multiplatform journalist from Los Angeles, CA. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN.com and NPR, among others.
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