Election 2012: Obama, Romney watch as voters decide fate Voters cast their votes at Linwood Holton Elementary School, a polling station for Election Day, November 6, 2012, in Richmond, Virginia. The nation goes to the polls to decide if Democratic President Barack Obama will be re-elected to another four-year term or if Republican challenger Mitt Romney will become the 45th president in the country's history. CHICAGO, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- President Obama was projected to win several battleground states, including Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where Republican rival Mitt Romney visited Tuesday. Pennsylvania, a battleground state leaning Democrat and which Romney made a late push to put it back in play, has 20 electoral votes. Soon after polls closed, CNN projected Michigan, also considered a swing state, and its 16 electoral votes would fall into Obama's column. New Hampshire, with four electoral votes, was projected to go to Obama, NBC News said. Wisconsin, home of GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, was projected to go for Obama, NBC News reported. It has 10 electoral votes. Leads flipped between Obama and Romney in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Ohio -- among the first states to close their polls -- but never varied by more than a couple of percentage points as results started being counted. Republicans were projected to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives. Reports indicated Republicans not only would hold their majority, but possibly add to it. Two major upsets for Republicans were projected in the Senate. CNN projected Democrat Elizabeth Warren will oust Sen. Scott Brown and Democrat Rep. Joe Donnelly will defeat Richard Mourdock to replace veteran Sen. Richard Lugar, who was ousted in the nominating process. In Connecticut, Democrat Chris Murphy was the projected winner over Linda McMahon to replace retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. Republicans were projected to lose in Maine, as independent Angus King was the projected winner to succeed retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe. Elected to his first full term in the Senate was Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who was elected to complete the unexpired term of Sen. Robert C. Byrd. President Obama hunkered down in Chicago as Election Day results rolled in while Republican rival Mitt Romney watched the returns and projections in Boston. As projections were made for other states, no real surprises came out. Besides Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, projections indicate states logged in Obama's column include Vermont, with three electoral votes; Connecticut, seven electoral votes; District of Columbia, three electoral votes; Illinois, 20 electoral votes; Maryland, 10 electoral votes; Massachusetts, 11 electoral votes, Rhode Island, four electoral votes, Maine with three of four electoral votes; New York, 29 electoral votes and New Jersey, 14 electoral votes, CNN said. Maine's electoral votes are determined by congressional district voting. States projected to land on Romney's side of the ledger are Georgia with 16 electoral votes, South Carolina, nine electoral votes; Alabama, nine electoral votes; West Virginia, five electoral votes, Oklahoma, seven electoral votes; Indiana, 11 electoral votes; and Kentucky, eight electoral votes, Arkansas, six electoral votes; Tennessee, 11 electoral votes; Kansas, six electoral votes; Louisiana, eight electoral votes; Nebraska, three of five electoral votes; North Dakota, three electoral votes; South Dakota, 3 electoral votes; Texas, 38 electoral; Wyoming, three electoral votes; Mississippi, 6 electoral votes; and Utah, six electoral votes, CNN said. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Both candidates said they felt good about the campaigns they ran. Early results from the tiny New Hampshire hamlet of Dixville-Notch reported an even split between Obama and Romney, the first time candidates have tied in that community. The hamlet, which votes at midnight, reported five votes each for the president and his GOP challenger. In 2004, Obama received 15 of the 21 votes cast. In Hart's Location, N.H., whose population of 41 is nearly four times Dixville Notch's 12, Obama won with 23 votes, Romney received 9 and Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson got 1 vote.