About 2,600 local residents stepped into a voting booth on election day, picked up their pen and thought something like, "I'm going to do it. I'm going to vote for Roseanne Barr."

Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney by about 32,000 votes, or roughly six percentage points, in the Sacramento region, according to election returns through Wednesday.

Use or interactive map to see results of Tuesday's election broken now by neighborhoods and find out what influence various parts of Sacramento had on the outcomes.

In 2008, big money flowed into California in support and opposition to a gay marriage ballot initiative. In 2012, big money is flowing out of California toward similar initiatives elsewhere.

Republicans and Democrats have spent a lot of time during their conventions arguing over this question: Are Americans better off today then they were four years ago?

President Barack Obama was the only choice on the ballot for the 85,000 Democrats and 5,000 decline-to-state voters who took Democratic ballots during last Tuesday's primary. But about 8,000 of those voters left their presidential ballots blank, and another 5,300 scribbled in a write-in candidate.

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