as of right now romney won 49.22%. compared to obama s 49.92% that puts the president ahead by 58,000 plus votes. in a statement tonight to fox news the republic party of florida wrote we are not conceding, we are waiting for the final results to be announced. the presidential race has already been conceded by the romney campaign but there are other races that matter. we also have to sertd phi the results. so what remains to be done is to oget the final count. also a lot of the blame can go around to all the florida voters who ignored advice, did not read up and do their homework first, so they ended up going through this historically long ballot for the first time in the booth. taking up to an hour to vote while the line outside simply didn t move. shep? shepard: phil keating in our florida newsroom tonight. thanks. we got word of another victory for civil rights today. the latest returns show that washington state voters have narrowly approved a law that legalizes same sex marriage