Why are contacts created on my Mac not syncing to other devices?

I have created contacts in address book on my Macbook Pro and they do not show up on my iPhone or iPad.  I have iCloud (contacts) turned on on all three.  OSX ver. 10.7.5

You're welcome.  I'm not sure how this happens, but it does from time to time.  When you first enable contacts syncing with iCloud on a Mac, it's supposed to upload your On My Mac contacts to iCloud and delete the On My Mac account, but in some cases it doesn't work properly and you're left with some "stranded" contacts and the potential to add new contacts to an account that doesn't sync with iCloud.

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