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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."
Slow news day?
Why is this piece of tripe on Slashdot? You can read this stuff all you want on CNN.com or any other "news" channel. I thought Slashdot was "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."
This doesn't matter.
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A while ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I had to take the piss.
So all is left is to clear up the right wing conspiracy theories about Oboma's birth origin. (However McCain was born in Panama so I am not sure who would be left...)
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Mr. Hopey Changey is filling his cabinet with storied Washington insiders.
Woo hoo.
Can't wait to see how when we're having problems two years from now the Obamabots figure out ways to blame McChimpyHallibushHitlerCheney anyway.
Get this: Obama didn't inherit any problems. He turned off online contribution credit card validation and recording, sleazed his way to $300 million in contributions, and BOUGHT EVERY DAMN PROBLEM HE WILL FACE
lol, next story to justify. obama sneezes at 13:26 (in particular you've got to cover why its news for nerds)
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
What your saying is that McCain has an outside shot?
I'd love to see that. Not because I think McCain is such a great candidate, but just to see the reaction of the Democrats. Kodak moment, anyone?
And it doesn't really matter anyway who won or will be elected by the College, considering how Obama's change and freshness brings us people like Clinton, Kerry, Gore and all those other "new" faces.
And the point of this story is...?
Yesterday was a sad day for the republic.
Muslim Overlord.
"The mind works quicker than you think!"
no? what's wrong with you?
then you need to put a sign on every door in your house saying "gun in here" or "gun not in here" to guide criminals, for being the inadequately enthusiastic gun owner you profess to be
have i successfully dismantled your bullshit propaganda about the a sign on my window yet?
think of an urban environment as a large house. on the street corners, are police. they are the guns that i need to keep me safe from crime. the gun is in safe, responsible, vigilant (and awake) hands. that it is in his hands, and not in my apartment, is the same as your gun being in your bedroom, but not your kitchen
see how that works?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/prespop.htm
educate yourself, then open your ignorant hole
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I don't know about you, but I would really love to suck his dick.
That's because they recalled that a previous Democracy in Athens had killed one of mankind's greatest thinkers, Socrates, simply because they didn't like him. They did not want the right to life to be taken-away by a simple 50% +1 vote
Did you realize that to kill a man in many states it takes not 50% of people + 1 vote, but just 12 people? Well, maybe also the judge and DA.
your observations are spot on... in a rural land, where the law is too far away to matter
in an urban environment, there's something called POLICE
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
News for Nerds
Get it? If he had announced his pick for FCC chief or a new military AI project I would be interested. Instead he continues to fawn over Obama as he did through the election cycle.
PS - I voted for Nader asshole.
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
err defend the parts of the Constitution that i agree with - like "free" health care, raising taxes, and whatever George Soros says.
I certainly hope you weren't leaning on Obama's own experience. After all, (and I will be modded down for stating this fact), he hasn't actually completed a term in the last two offices he has held.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I too was discussing the Presidential election by the Electoral College. Go back and re-read the post a few more times until you understand.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.