It's finally over. After nearly two full years of fringe candidates, mudslinging, punditry and speculation, Barack Obama won re-election this evening, made official by Mitt Romney's concession just before 1 a.m. ET.
While many predicted a decision wouldn't come until morning or even days later, NBC was the first network to call the election at 11:12 p.m. Yet, for all the jockeying between networks to be first and right, nobody had a better night in the media than New York Times blogger and poll guru Nate Silver, who correctly predicted 50 out of 50 states in his electoral map this evening.
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