Well, here's the final electoral map (from barackobama.com). As you can see, the coastal areas both went Democrat as expected, but the shockers were New Mexico and Colorado who also went Democrat; as well as North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida, which have typically went to the Republican candidate, but I guess they decided it was time for a change. You can see that although there is a lot more red on the map, the states that are more densely populated (i.e. California and the entire NE region as well as Florida) with a higher electoral count went to Barack, which is the reason he won.
-Christina
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