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Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President
At 3:00 Eastern time on Monday Dec. 15, 538 electors in state capitols across the US cast the votes that actually elected Barack Obama the 44th President. Obama received, unofficially, 365 electoral votes (with 270 needed to win). The exact total will not be official — or Obama officially elected — until Congress certifies the count of electoral votes in a joint session on Jan. 6, 2009. The Electoral College was established in its present form in 1804 by the Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution. Electors are not required to vote for the candidate who won their state — in fact, 24 states make it a criminal offense to vote otherwise, but no "faithless elector" has ever been charged with a crime. "On 158 occasions, electors have cast their votes for President or Vice President in a manner different from that prescribed by the legislature of the state they represented. Of those, 71 votes were changed because the original candidate died before the elector was able to cast a vote. Two votes were not cast at all when electors chose to abstain from casting their electoral vote for any candidate. The remaining 85 were changed by the elector's personal interest, or perhaps by accident. Usually, the faithless electors act alone. An exception was in 1836 when 23 Virginia electors changed their vote together. ... To date, faithless electors have never changed the otherwise expected outcome of the election."
Okay kids - let's add some more!
and your doubt will be fruitful and hav a point
otherwise, you still need to believe in democracy
churchill: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Obama planned his first public appearance since his presidential victory for Friday -- a meeting with economic advisers to discuss the nation's financial woes that Americans listed as their top concern on Election Day. Obama plans to talk to the news media Friday afternoon following the meeting, aides said. He and his wife, Michelle, will visit the White House on Monday at President Bush's invitation, aides said. http://kingpahat.blogspot.com/
I love the bat-shit crazies who think that dual-citizenship can bar someone from being president. With that logic, the UK can prevent everyone from being president, by declaring all US citizens are UK citizens as well. Idiots.
editted and worked over though:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1021887&cid=25678743
people give me flak for this, i do it alot. but i don't understand what their problem is, there's no such thing as self-plagiarism. if the remark is applicable to the subject matter, which it is, what's the problem?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
as much as the thought of the inequality of the ec has I can not bring myself to support moving the US to they tyranny off the majority if but for one small slice of our world that i was shown by jay leno.
jay leno runs that Great American Pop Quiz every once in a while. it's neat to see what most normal americans right off the street of nyc do and do not know. when the average american knows who teddy roosevelt was, knows who's faces are carved into mount rushmore, who knows why the south tried to leave the union, when the average american knows all that with out needing to wrack their brain then i'll agree that the ec has gone the way of the dodo.
until someone can prove that the common man has the intelligence and the great concern to educate themselves properly on what is going on in the world so they can make an informed decision as to who to chose for president then i am all for the ec. i would prefer it if there were more "faithless" among them to be honest.
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