The first states are being called in the 2012 Presidential Election.
By the time the first East Coast polls closed at 7 p.m. local time, CNN and other networks projected Kentucky for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Vermont for President Barack Obama.
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Half an hour later, the network projected West Virginia for Romney. Shortly before 5 p.m., ABC News called South Carolina for Romney.
Romney also is the projected winner in Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Mississippi.
Around 5 p.m., NBC News projected Obama as the winner in his home state of Illinois as well as in Romney's home state of Massachusetts, Delaware, Maine and Rhode Island.
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