Election 2012's biggest winners and losers, besides Obama and Romney

SLIDESHOW - Beyond the obvious victors and vanquished, who else won the night on Tuesday and who came up empty handed?...

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The seemingly endless 2012 campaign has finally come to an end — a happy one for supporters of President Barack Obama, who won re-election; but not so much for those who backed Mitt Romney.

But beyond the obvious victors and vanquished, who else won the night on Tuesday and who came up empty handed?

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