For US's largest and perhaps most influential swing state, election night was a slow grind of razor-thin, anxiety-inducing vote counting - no matter which side you were on. President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney traded leads as the votes were tallied. With 85 percent of precincts reporting, the candidates were essentially tied and separated by just thousands of votes out of more than 7.4 million ballots cast.

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