Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney: America decides
US went to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether to give President Barack Obama a second term or to replace him with Mitt Romney after a long, hard-fought campaign.
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A poll worker assists voters with the help of a flashlight in a makeshift tent set up as a polling place in the Rockaway neighborhood of New York City- one of the areas hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy.
Even as America votes, nationwide exit polls have showed Obama and Romney are virtually tied with most voters saying the economy is the top issue facing the nation. -
A woman tabulates ballots at a polling station just after midnight on November 6, 2012. The final national polls showed an effective tie, with either US President Barack Obama or Republican candidate Mitt Romney favoured by a single point in most surveys.