November 8, 2012, 2:01 p.m. Mitt Romney’s top campaign official in Florida conceded Thursday that President Obama will win the state, acknowledging a vote count that was moving inexorably against the Republicans.
Several Florida counties are still counting ballots, but most of what remains are in areas of South Florida that Obama carried by significant margins. When all those ballots are tallied, they likely will add to the president’s edge in the state, which was 55,832 votes as of Thursday afternoon, a lead of about 0.7%.
“The numbers in Florida show this was winnable,” Brett Doster, the senior advisor to Romney’s Florida campaign said in a statement to the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times. “We thought, based on our polling and range of organization, that we had done what we needed to win. Obviously, we didn’t, and for that I and every other operative in Florida has a sick feeling that we left something on the table. I can assure you this won’t happen again.”
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