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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012

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OBAMA
AMA WINS

WE KNOW THAT FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE BEST IS YET TO COME

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President Obama and his family greet supporters after being re-elected president at an election-night party in Chicago.

THE U.S. SENATE RACE

Casey name strikes gold again as Dem

retains seat over well-financed Smith
by

ANdREW CONTE

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. kept

his seat on Tuesday with voters choosing the Democrat over
a Republican challenger who
spent millions of his own dollars on a hard-hitting conservative campaign.
Casey, 52, of Scranton defeated
Republican Tom Smith of Armstrong County 56 percent to 42
percent, with 85 percent of precincts reporting.
Smith, 65, of Plumcreek lost

SENATE SEATS
DEM 52, GOP 43
INDEPENDENT 2

Kathleen Kane......... 59%

David Freed.........................39%
Eugene DePasquale ..52%
John Maher ........................44%

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despite spending at least $17 million of his money in a campaign

with major television advertising.
The job of putting this country back to work is not yet done,
Casey told his supporters late
Tuesday. As a member of the
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Robert McCord ........55%

Diana Irey Vaughan.............. 41%

Congress

14th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

Mike Doyle.............. 77%

Hans Lessmann...................23%
18th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

Tim Murphy ............ 63%

Larry Maggi ........................37%

INSIDE

JEREMy bOREN
a consolation prize to Pennsylvania Republicans scorched
by GOP presidential nominee
Mitt Romneys defeat and Democrats sweep of Republicans in
statewide row office races and
the U.S. Senate.
Supporters in both camps
were exasperated as the results
materialized, but cheers broke
out among the estimated 150
HOUSE A12

THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Romney concedes after falling

short in battleground states
by

Treasurer

85 PERCENT OF THE PRECINCTS

REPORTING

Rothfus grabs late edge over Critz;

both attracted heavy outside funding
Republicans seized a highly
sought seat when Sewickley lawyer Keith Rothfus won the most
expensive congressional race in
the country this year, according
to unofficial returns Tuesday.
Preliminary returns showed
Rothfus with 51.3 percent of the
vote to U.S. Rep. Mark Critzs
48.7 percent, with 91 percent
of precincts reporting. The
apparent victory in the 12th
Congressional District offered

Attorney General
Auditor General

THE U.S. HOUSE RACE

by

STATE RESULTS
AT A GLANCE

LONG LINES AND

CONFUSION OVER
VOTER ID GREET
VOTERS. A13-14
DEMS SNATCH
REPUBLICAN-HELD
SENATE SEATS
IN INDIANA AND
MASSACHUSETTS.
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LASTEST ELECTION
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MIKE WERESCHAGIN ANd SALENA ZITO

resident Obama won a second term against Republican challenger

Mitt Romney on Tuesday, becoming the first president since
Franklin Delano Roosevelt to win re-election with an unemployment rate above 7.2 percent.
Pennsylvania joined key swing states Ohio, Iowa and Colorado
to carry Obama past the 270 electoral-vote threshold. According to
preliminary returns, he won Pennsylvania 52 percent to 47 percent.
Obama won more than 300 electoral votes, according to the Associated
Press.

Tonight, more than 200 years after

a former colony won the right to
determine its own destiny, the task of
perfecting our union moves forward.
It moves forward because of you. It
moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed
over war and depression, the spirit
that has lifted this country from the
depths of despair to the great heights
of hope, Obama told a cheering
crowd in Chicago. We know that for
the United States of America, the best
is yet to come.
Romneys brief speech called for
national unity.
This is a time of great challenges
for America, and I pray that the
president will be successful in guiding
our nation, Romney told a cheering
crowd at his rally in Boston about 1

a.m. Wednesday.
Obama led Romney by just more
than 2 percentage points in the popular vote as of 1 a.m., offering another
reminder that the country remains
deeply divided politically.
I so wish that I had been able to
fulfill your hopes to lead the nation in
another direction. But the nation chose
another leader, and so Ann and I join
with you to earnestly pray for him and
for this great nation, Romney said.
Florida remained too close to call.
Turnout appeared to dip from the
record high of four years ago, and in
most states appeared to be lower than
2004, though the complete picture
wont be clear for weeks. Heavy turnout in Westmoreland County, where
PRESIDENT A14

Former CMU trustee accused of laundering $500M

El Paso attorney, a
1990 grad, allegedly
aided Mexican cartel
by

dEbRA ERdLEy

Federal authorities accuse a

former Carnegie Mellon University trustee of conspiring
to launder hundreds of millions of dollars for a Mexican
drug cartel.

WEATHER 48 27
Periods of sun today;
clouds breaking tonight
Details, A18

Marco Antonio Delgado,

46, an El Paso attorney who
graduated from CMU with
a masters degree in public
policy and management in
1990, was jailed without bond
when authorities arrested
him Friday in El Paso, court
records show.
Delgado, the founder and
managing partner of Delgado and Associates P.C. in El
Paso was arraigned in federal
court there on Monday. He is

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scheduled to appear before

U.S. District Magistrate Judge
Norbert Garney on Thursday
morning for a bond hearing.
According to court records,
a federal grand jury handed
down a sealed indictment
against Delgado in September.
The recently unsealed indictment does not detail specifics
of the alleged money laundering scheme or its participants,
but an ABC affiliate in El Paso
reported Delgado is accused

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Bridge D7
Business B9
City&Region B1

Classified E1
Comics D8
Crossword D7
Editorials A17

of laundering more than $500

million for the Milenio cartel.
Delgados lawyer, Jose
Montes, did not immediately
return a call for comment.
A biography that had been
carried on CMUs website
identified Delgado as a principal in Delgado and Associates and director and CEO
of Power Solutions of North
America. It says Delgado took
a leave of absence at the beginning of 2012 to join Enrique

Financial B10
Horoscope D7
Living D1
Lotteries A18

Movies D5
Obituaries B4
Sports C1
Television D6

Pena Nietos successful campaign for president of Mexico

and is assisting as a member
of Nietos transition team.
CMU records show Delgado
endowed a fellowship in public policy and management for
Hispanic graduate students
in 2003.
Although Delgado was
appointed to the board in 2006
and is listed as a trustee on
the universitys 2012-13 course
catalogue, a CMU spokesman

said Delgado left in June.

Sometime between last Friday
and Tuesday, his biography
was removed from the universitys Heinz College website.
He is no longer a member
of the board. We have no further comment, CMU spokesman Ken Walters said in an
email.

Debra Erdley is a staff writer for Trib Total

Media. She can be reached at 412-3207996 or derdley@tribweb.com.

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