Don Del Grande
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Nov 20, 2008, 8:24 PM
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If you want to get technical, he hasn't been elected yet.
All that happened on November 4 was, the people elected the members of
the Electoral College. The electors don't actually vote until
December 14 (the Monday after the second Wednesday in December).
While, in most, if not all, states, the electors are forced to vote
for a specific person for President, there is always the case of what
to do in case something, er, "happened" to one of the Presidential
nominees.
(For example, if Obama were to suffer some fatal "accident" by, for
example, being hit on the head by a falling bowling ball dropped by a
disgruntled Brunswick executive who is afraid that he really would
tear out the White House bowling lane to make room for a basketball
court, then the electors from California could vote for anybody. Given
that they were pledged to Obama and Hillary won the state's Democratic
primary way back when, I wonder who they would vote for...)
As for how he got elected; more people voted for him than anybody else
in enough states (or, in some cases, Congressional districts) to give
him more than 269 of the 538 electors. Seems straightforward enough
to me.
-- Don
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