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Subscribe to RSSThe big day is finally here. We’ve made it to Election Day 2012 with President Barack Obama seeking re-election and Republican challenger Mitt Romney hoping to lead the GOP back to the Oval Office. The race is neck-and-neck, with the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll (released Sunday) showing Obama getting support from 48 percent of likely voters, and Romney 47 percent. We’ll carry full Election Night coverage from Democracy Plaza and around the country live on NBC News and on your local affiliate, starting at 7 p.m. ET and running until at least 3 a.m. You can also get the full Election Night experience away from the television.
Consider this your guide on how to follow, like, fan and participate in Election Day 2012 from the device or social network of your choice.
NBCNews.com and the NBC Politics App
NBCNews.com and the NBC Politics app (available on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) will carry live streams of NBC News' special coverage beginning at 7 p.m. ET and provide full analysis, video and updates all day long, from when the first polls open until a candidate hits 270 votes from the Electoral College. We’ll also curate the best of our campaign embeds and political reports on Twitter along with voter stories from around the nation.
For more election coverage on your Microsoft PC or Surface tablet, download the NBC News app for Windows 8.
Social TV
NBC News will again optimize an experience with new second-screen platform Zeebox. Within the app, users will have a curated view of real-time social media reaction along with the ability to share images, quotes and more behind-the-scenes views. For more information, visit http://nbcnews.com/zeebox.
Additionally, be sure check-in to NBC News Election Night 2012 coverage on GetGlue and continue to be rewarded with another exclusive sticker.
ElectionGrams
A new project, ElectionGrams.com, is a curated collection of political images posted to the popular photo-sharing service Instagram from all 50 states. We are using geotags to display the images on a state-by-state basis, and will post photos uploaded with terms such as #obama2012, #romney or #vote. To participate, tag your voting photos with the #NBCPolitics hashtag and let us know where the photo was taken. Then check in throughout the day to see what you and others are seeing around the nation.
Viewers can be a part of the experience on Twitter by following and joining the conversation using the hashtag #NBCPolitics and by following @NBCPolitics and @NBCNews. Want to get a glimpse of the conversation on Democracy Plaza? Follow @DemocracyPlaza and the #DemocracyPlaza hashtag.
Additionally, NBC News has curated a list of some of the best NBC News analysis you can get on Election Day. View that list at https://twitter.com/nbcnews/electionday2012.
Turn to NBC News and NBC Politics on Facebook for a livestream of Election Night 2012 coverage in its entirety. In addition, check back for highlights, polls, analysis and more commentary all day long.
XBox
Election coverage will be streamed in the NBC News app available for free to Xbox Live Gold members. App users can participate by answering election-related questions throughout the evening. Tune in, answer questions and see what others are saying about Election Night 2012.
Crimson Hexagon Social Analysis
We're tracking social media commentary on the presidential candidates using a natural-language tool called ForSight, developed by Crimson-Hexagon Inc. Results are culled from all Twitter messages and a sampling of Facebook posts each day, and reflect not national opinion but a broader look at what's being said by Americans who follow politics and are active on Facebook, Twitter or both, and why they're saying it. Read more about what people said during the final presidential debate and what it all means in analysis by NBC News’ Alex Johnson here, and turn to NBCNews.com in the days following Election Day 2012 for more analysis of social media sentiment.
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NBC "news" coverage. HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa. Now that's funny.
How to watch Election Day coverage with NBC News..
A. Romove your brain
B. Ignore reality
C. Become a leech on society
These 3 steps will make NBC almost tolerable.
Maybe if you watch Fox AND NBC together, they will negate each other. Which is kind of like watching nothing to begin with.
The results will be the same no matter where you watch!
Come on!!! NBC isn't nearly as bad as the lies perpetrated on FOX – anyone who believes the reporting on FOX needs to get their I.Q tested as brain cells are destroyed with every report!
At least NBC has a right winger in Morning Joe going for it as FOX has only right wing lunatics! But as sea2see says - the results will be the same
4 more for 44!!!!!! and a House still run by Right Wing, do nothing obstructionists
Kate Anderson's Real Picture banned, rereg of multiple accounter Nobozospeak.
What, no Android love?
Why no Android love?
Not only will I NOT watch ANY coverage, I'm cleaning out my closets of DVD's and, yes, VCR tapes that I can watch instead.
I am so sick and tired of these attack commercials; it just shows you the regard these politicians hold you in. Do they really believe we are so simple minded???
The only ones who make out are the TV and radio stations that air these things. Look for their stocks to show a profit this quarter.
If you vote you are simple minded. Simple enough to believe that a candidate can or will do anything that they promise. It is better to put your energy into improving your own situation than to wait in line to cast a pointless vote for a person that is either unwilling or unable to do what you want, or even do what is in the best interests of your township, city, state, or what is best for US. This is campaign and electoral process is a enormous waste of our time and money.
I am so sick of all the robo calls. I have been harrassed by these and feel they should be illegal, but they are not. For me, it is just another reason to vote Independent as the majority of these were for Mitt or Obama and neither one should be our next President.
If Romney wins, 90% of the voters were badly informed by the corporate media and we clearly need more independent media sources
From: Bill Moyer’s: The Trigger of Economic Inequality. Interview with Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierce, who have written “Winners Take All Politics”. Their income graph during the past 30 years is very revealing and income is based on 2008 dollars.
1980 Bottom 90% Average Annual Income $ 31.073
Top 10% Average Annual Income $ 318.657
2007 Bottom 90% Average Annual Income $ 30.981
Top 10% Average Annual Income $ 988.955
Income increase for 90% was negative, while that of top 10% was an increase of more than 300%. With one of their one in the White House this will only get worse.
The gap between rich and poor has increased since Obama has been in office... and not because the rich got richer but because America got poorer as a whole.
Try including averages from the current year instead of stopping 5 years ago, you unthinking, blind, party-owned sheep.
pjam - Not good with dates or numbers.
I love how they write
"How to watch Election Day coverage with NBC News"
Apparently they think people are too stupid to know how to watch the news without being told how to. Just as they pick the candidates for us as well. Then they give us a choice of "two". They just ignore the other parties because they know what is best for the people. People cannot choose for themselves.
It's not really that. If the election is breaking for Obama, they want you to watch the numbers. If it is breaking for Romney, ignore the numbers and listen to what they say. Also, if they award a state to Obama that has less votes than Romney, ignore it until they can check the trunk and behind the sofa for any uncounted ballots.
While one person will be elected today for the White House, America lost - Especially if the polls are any way near accurate. We have failed to have the best person's name on the ballot. We have also failed to have the best candidates running for Congress and the Senate. Who ever is elected today - The "Blame Game" continues..... We continued to keep it a simple two party confrontation!
How things change; X-box, twitter, e-mails, instant everything. I can remember my dad allowing me to stay up until 11 pm to see if John Kennedy won. He hadn't obtained a majority of the electorial college by that time and I had to go to bed as it was a school night. The radio the next morning told us he had won.
Watch election coverage on NBC, CBS, ABC, or CNN? I'm laughing so hard my side is splitting with pain!
I have my tv set tuned to Fox, thank you very much!
Vote!-1183028 banned, spamming. Good cause though it may be, it's still advertising.
I'm having a party at my house. Lots of munchies and food. Going to be a great night. What channel are we going to watch it on. NBC thank you. We will be recording FAUX news so we can compare election coverage. We know what FAUX News will be like. Hitting Democrats with everything including the kitchen sink. I don't think FAUX news has reported anything near the truth these last two years about this election. I am glad that you, Harry 1952 are sittling there in pain by laughing so long. So while your watching the election coverage and at the end, Obama wins, your grin will be gone, your stomach will turn sour and probably be in a terrible mood for days. Hope you enjoy your misery.
Draw straws and have the "loser" monitor FAUX on their smartphone (or similar device) in another room while the rest of you enjoy the party!
...AAAAHHHHHH...the bantering feet of politicos....left AND right! So...has any one seen my pipe and slippers...?!
If I want accuracy and complete coverage of this election, NBC is one of the LAST places Id watch! And Im a Democrat!
I wish you'd just put a "watch live TV now" button on the splash page like CNN.com. I've watched all the conventions and debates with them, because NBC doesn't seem to offer that option. :-(
I'm going towatch CBS News. Seems to me to be the least biased.
As for how to watch the election, with the various social media, NBC was simply stating how they fulfill that particular function. And that doesn't mean they'll be less or more biased. Just how they have used social media to get their coverage to people that way.
Doesn't mean I'm not gonna watch CBS though, or PBS. That last is unlikely if they have that wooden idiot, Jim Lehrer that presided over the first Presidential Fight, er Debate,
I have a feeling that this is going to be one heck of a mess...
Law suits will come out of the woodwork and delay the results of the election esp. the east coast. Just when one would think that this episode cannot get any worse...
Stand by...
Rent a good comedy instead.
Thank you for offering this. I don't have cable tv at home, and the OTA reception is horrible, so watching results online is my only option. Cheers!
I could not stand listening to and watching Savannah Guthrie during their coverage, she clearly is not objective in her reporting and it was rather distracting and enormously annoying!