Updated Nov. 7, 12:09 a.m.
Cheers can be heard for blocks as students surge toward the White House to celebrate President Barack Obama’s reelection.
News outlets predicted an Obama win against Republican challenger Mitt Romney at about 11:15 p.m., after the president clinched Ohio.
Chants of “four more years” broke out at the College Democrats watch party before students rushed out of the Marvin Center toward 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. City police are trying to control the mobs and have pulled celebrating students from trees.
The Foggy Bottom Campus’ streets silenced as hundreds of students shifted east, chanting”U.S.A!” to welcome Obama’s next term. Car horns blared and screaming floods of people poured down the streets.
Georgetown University students joined the scene at about midnight.
Students also swarmed the White House after Obama was elected to his first term in 2008.
– Colleen Murphy, Chloe Sorvino, Matthew Kwiecinski, Jordan Emont and Catherine Barnao contributed to this report.
