NBC NEWS projects Obama wins Oregon and Ohio and will therefore win re-election

UPDATE: NBC NEWS projects Obama wins Oregon and Ohio and will therefore win re-election. Obama thanks supporters on Twitter; `We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned'

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EARLIER STORY:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama took command of the fierce race for the White House Tuesday night, capturing battleground Ohio from Mitt Romney and edging ahead in other pivotal states despite a weak economy and high unemployment that crimped the middle class dreams of millions.

At home in Chicago, the president all but claimed victory. "This happened because of you. Thank you" he tweeted to supporters.

Romney was in Massachusetts after a long and grueling bid for the presidency.

Since the CNN Poll of Polls is an average of multiple surveys, it does not have a sampling error. But the president's one point margin is well within the sampling errors of the surveys averaged into the poll of polls.