Presidential races

The Tea Party Patriots unloaded a barrage criticism on Mitt Romney Tuesday night after news broke of President Obama's reelection. 

The group released a statement blasting Romney as a "weak moderate" who was the choice of party elites in Washington.

"For those of us who believe that America, as founded, is the greatest country in the history of the world — a ‘Shining city upon a hill’ — we wanted someone who would fight for us," said Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, on Tuesday night.  

President Obama went straight to Twitter after multiple networks called the presidential race in his favor on Tuesday night. 

We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. Thank you. -bo

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012

Gore called for "a reckoning for these governors and state legislatures that have intentionally tried to prevent people from voting."

Obama is winning 10 percentage points less of the Jewish vote than four years ago.

President Obama has won the critical battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to projections from multiple news outlets.

CNN projected an Obama victory in Michigan just moments after polls closed, and both Fox News and NBC have now called Pennsylvania for the president as well. Fox and NBC also called Wisconsin for the president.

Obama entered Election Day with a small lead in the polls in Pennsylvania, but Romney was pushing hard for the state in the closing days of the election. The GOP challenger booked two events in Pennsylvania this week and made a stop in Pittsburgh on Election Day. 

Vigo County has been within 3 points of the national result since 1888 and has only missed the winner twice.

“You always have two speeches prepared because you can’t take anything for granted,” Obama said.

As the presidential contest reaches its boiling point, the power to decide who will hold the presidency has been whittled down to just a handful of states.

Here is a list of the key poll closing times for the presidential race and down-ticket contests. All times are in Eastern Standard, incumbent party listed first.

PRESIDENT

7 p.m.: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia

7:30 p.m.: North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia

8 p.m.: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee

8:30 p.m.: Arkansas

9 p.m.: Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming

10 p.m.: Iowa, Montana, Nevada, Utah

11 p.m.: California, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Washington

1 a.m: Alaska

SENATE

7 p.m.: Virginia (Democrat Tim Kaine vs. Republican George Allen), Indiana (Republican Richard Mourdock vs. Democrat Joe Donnelly)

7:30 p.m.: Ohio (Democrat Sherrod Brown vs. Republican Josh Mandel)

8 p.m.: Connecticut (Democrat Chris Murphy vs. Republican Linda McMahon), Florida (Democrat Bill Nelson vs. Republican Connie Mack) Maine (Republican Charlie Summers vs. Independent Angus King vs. Democrat Cynthia Dill), Massachusetts (Republican Scott Brown vs. Democrat Elizabeth Warren), Missouri (Democrat Claire McCaskill vs. Republican Todd Akin), Pennsylvania (Democrat Bob Casey Jr. vs. Republican Tom Smith)

9 p.m.: Arizona (Republican Jeff Flake vs. Democrat Richard Carmona), Nebraska (Democrat Bob Kerrey vs. Republican Deb Fischer), North Dakota (Democrat Heidi Heitkamp vs. Republican Rick Berg), Wisconsin (Democrat Tammy Baldwin vs. Republican Tommy Thompson)

10 p.m.: Montana (Democrat Jon Tester vs. Republican Denny Rehberg), Nevada (Republican Dean Heller vs. Democrat Shelley Berkley)

11 p.m.  Hawaii (Democrat Mazie Hirono vs Republican Linda Lingle)

HOUSE

7 p.m.: Georgia (Rep. John Barrow (D)), Kentucky (Rep. Ben Chandler (D))

7:30 p.m.: North Carolina (Rep. Mike McIntyre (D), Rep. Larry Kissel (D)), Ohio (Rep. Jim Renacci (R) vs. Rep. Betty Sutton (D); Rep. Bill Johnson (R))

8 p.m.: Connecticut (CT-5, Democratic open seat), Florida (Rep. Dan Webster (R); Rep. Allen West (R); Rep. David Rivera (R); FL-22, Republican open seat), Illinois (Rep. Joe Walsh (R); Rep. Bob Dold (R); Rep. Judy Biggert (R); Rep. Bobby Schilling (R); IL-12, Democratic open seat; IL-13, Republican open seat), Maryland (Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R)), Massachusetts (Rep. John Tierney (D)), New Hampshire (Rep. Charlie Bass (R); Rep. Frank Guinta (R)), Pennsylvania (Rep. Mark Critz (D)), Rhode Island (Rep. David Cicilline (D))

9 p.m.: Arizona (AZ-1, Republican open seat; AZ-9, new seat), Colorado (Rep. Mike Coffman (R)), Michigan (Rep. Dan Benishek (R)), Louisiana (Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R) vs. Rep. Jeff Landry (R)), Minnesota (Rep. Chip Cravaack (R); Rep. Michele Bachmann (R)) New York (Rep. Tim Bishop (D); Rep. Kathy Hochul (D); Rep. Nan Hayworth (R); Rep. Chris Gibson (R); Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R)), Texas (Rep. Francisco "Quico" Canseco (R); TX-14, Republican open seat), Wisconsin (Rep. Sean Duffy (R))

10 p.m.: Iowa (Rep. Steve King (R), Rep. Tom Latham (R) vs. Rep. Leonard Boswell (D)), Nevada (Rep. Joe Heck (R), NV-4, new seat), Utah (Rep. Jim Matheson (D))

11 p.m.: California (Rep. Dan Lungren (R); Rep. Jeff Denham (R); Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R); Rep. Brian Bilbray (R); Rep. Lois Capps (D); CA-26, Republican open seat)

— This post was updated at 5:34 p.m.

Paul defended his decision not to endorse Romney or Obama, telling CNN there wasn't "enough difference between the two candidates."