However this fiscal cliff thing turns out, President Obama can take heart in one piece of news that broke on Monday: he won the election in New York City.
Nearly two months since Election Day and after the Electoral College met and voted, New York City's Board of Elections posted official presidential results.
Mr. Obama carried the city with 81 percent of the vote, 1,987,013 to Mitt Romney's 435,564. He beat Mr. Romney more narrowly on the write-in tally, 146 to 99.
A little more than 58 percent of the city's registered voters cast ballots, compared with 64 percent in 2008, when Mr. Obama carried the city with 79 percent.
A board spokeswoman said the certified results were delayed by the large number of people who cast affidavit ballots in other districts because their own polling places were closed as a result of Hurricane Sandy. In all, 245,115 affidavit ballots were counted, compared with 108,170 four years earlier .
Ross C. (Rocky) Anderson, a human rights advocate, received the most write-in votes, 147.
Michael R. Bloomberg received one write-in vote, the same number as Chael Sonnen (the mixed martial artist), Tom Leykis (the talk radio host) and a Vern Wesche.
In 2008, the board appeared to have listed every write-in vote (Socrates and Tina Fey received one each). This time, the official tally described 1,792 simply as “unattributable write-ins.â€
Presidential Election Returns NYC (PDF)
Presidential Election Returns NYC (Text)
