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2:12 A.M. E.T.: And with that, we’re wrapping up for the night. Thanks for reading, everyone. Be sure to check back with us tomorrow; New Yorker writers and editors will have plenty more to say about Tuesday’s events.

1:53 A.M. E.T.: This speech is vintage Obama, and that’s probably what’ll be talked about in the immediate coverage. But there were a couple signs of what lays ahead in the second term that are worth noting as well: Obama alluded to both climate change and immigration. This is the sign that he really is done with his reëlection campaign. He’d been avoiding climate change talk because the G.O.P. was bound to hit him over the head with it, and he was unable to get immigration reform done in his first term, but now, after the Latino vote pushed him into the White House for a second time, he really owes it to them to get it done.

Will he be able to accomplish either, though? My guess: not with this House. Maybe—maybe—after 2014. But we’ll see.

1:39 A.M. E.T.: Obama speaking now. It sounds like he’s going for the kind of soaring rhetoric that defined him in 2008. “The task of perfecting our union moves forward. It moves forward because of you,” he says.

1:17 A.M. E.T.: At this point, it’s looking like a decent, if not spectacular, night for the vocal fringe in the House of Representatives. Right now, Florida Republican Allen West is trailing in a close race, and it looks as if he will lose. But Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann has a small lead in her race, and her friend Iowa Republican Steve King held on for reëlection as well. On the Democratic side of the aisle, Florida’s Alan Grayson—a guy who was once content just to be a strong liberal, but who seems to have made a deliberate decision to be just plain noxious recently—is coming back to the House, after he lost in 2010.

1:08 A.M. E.T.: A Cassidy’s Count update: with only Florida still left uncalled, and probably remaining that way for now, John Cassidy’s gotten everything right so far. He said Romney would win Florida; if that happens, his prediction will have been dead on.

1:01 A.M. E.T.: A remarkably short concession speech by Romney—lasted for only about five minutes. Earlier today, his campaign was saying the candidate had prepared only one speech, and that it was a victory address. No one believed them. But now, we have to wonder: maybe they were telling the truth?

12:58 A.M. E.T.: Romney, delivering his concession speech from his Boston headquarters, looks exhausted, broken. So far, a fairly conciliatory speech: “At a time like this, we can’t risk partisan bickering and political posturing,” he says.

12:51 A.M. E.T.: Multiple reports now that Romney has called Obama to concede. If there was any doubt remaining, it’s gone now—this one’s over, folks. (But still plenty more results coverage to come, plus the two candidates’ speeches, so stick around.)

12:46 A.M. E.T.: A popular vote update: Obama has now clawed his way out to a narrow lead over Romney, at least in the real-time count. Looks like Donald Trump’s calls for revolution may have been just a tad premature.

12:41 A.M. E.T.: The Associated Press has now called Virginia for Obama. Romney still hasn’t come out to concede yet, and he’s been waiting, but the New York Times’s Ashley Parker reports, on Twitter, that she has two sources who say he will, and that he’ll do it tonight.

12:30 A.M. E.T.: Another historic first coming out of ballot measures tonight: Washington is now the first state in the Union to legalize marijuana. Not medical marijuana—marijuana. Period. I haven’t seen official calls on a similar measure in Colorado yet, but it looks like legal marijuana is heading towards a victory there, too.

There’s one whopper of a caveat to add to this, though: states can do whatever they want, but marijuana is illegal under federal law, and federal law trumps state law. The most interesting thing to watch in the coming days, weeks, and months here is the Obama Administration’s reaction. If they want to crack down in those states, they can. Given their history, they probably will. But who knows? Maybe this is the point, and maybe this is the President—one who has admitted to smoking to quite a bit of marijuana himself, after all—when federal policy changes.

12:10 A.M. E.T.: Fox News has now called both Colorado and Nevada for Obama. So as long as Karl Rove doesn’t decide to dispute those results, it really is official: the President doesn’t need Ohio, he doesn’t need Florida, he doesn’t need Virginia. He wins reëlection, with or without them.

12:06 A.M. E.T.: It’s a historic night for same-sex marriage. Voters in Maryland and Maine have apparently approved measures to allow same-sex couples to wed in their states. Before this, every time the issue had gone directly to the voters, it had lost—all the states that have legalized it previously have done so in other ways.

There are still two more states—Minnesota and Washington—in which the issue is on the ballot. While we wait for them to come in, read Margaret Talbot’s overview of the electoral picture for same-sex marriage.

11:49 P.M. E.T.: On Fox News, Karl Rove is apparently still arguing—against his own network’s people—that Obama has not won Ohio yet. But at this point it looks like that doesn’t matter. The Associated Press has called Colorado for Obama, and CNN has called Nevada for Obama. If both of those hold up, Obama is basically guaranteed two hundred and seventy-two Electoral College votes, and victory, even if he loses Florida, Ohio, and Virginia.

11:36 P.M. E.T.: If you don’t follow Donald Trump on Twitter, now’s a good time to check in. He—or whoever is behind his account—is melting down right now. A sampling:

“We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!”

“More votes equals a loss…revolution!”

11:31 P.M. E.T.: On Twitter, our Ryan Lizza sums up the scene on Fox News right now: “Rove has basically bullied the Fox hosts into backing off from their call of the election. Amazing TV.”

11:25 P.M. E.T.: Woah, hold on a second: Fox News’ Chris Wallace and Karl Rove say the Romney campaign is disputing the call for Obama in Ohio. They’re not ready to concede this yet, it seems.

11:18 P.M. E.T.: The calls are now in from across the networks: President Obama has been reëlected to a second term.