A New Dawn?
Well, wasn’t this a historic election. Not my man, but I recognize the historical importance of this election. Now I will have a “wait and see” attitude and see if the president-elect can pull off what he says or if he’ll be a party puppet. We will look back on this election long in the future and see what change this brought to our nation. Hopefully, its for the better.
Anyway, I would just like to say it is time in this country for the Electoral College to go away. I have argued this issue since the days when Perot was considered a real candidate. The President was chosen well before 10 or so states had even closed the polls. That means all those votes were worthless. None of them really counted for anything in the presidential election. McCain had conceded and Obama had given his speech long before the polls even closed in Alaska, so all the votes here might as well have been flushed down the toilet for all they counted. So in reality, not every voice was heard or even given a fair chance to be heard.
Secondly, if you look at the popular vote, the country is actually almost evenly split 51% / 48%. That means half this country was alienated tonight because the electoral college vote is the only vote that actually counts. In this day and age of computers, the Internet, and systems where the news can look at polling returns by county nationwide in real-time, the antiquated Electoral system isn’t need. The Popular vote can be accurately and quickly counted.
i’ve some problem with system and...
I’d like to say that every voted counted 8 years ago in Florida, but then we know that just isn’t true because so many of the Florida votes just “didn’t count”…anyhow, the point being that the results from each and every state mattered. So you never know. Also, Obama got a majority of the popular vote, so either way you look at it, he would have won. “It’s the economy, stupid”….bottom line. If this election had been 2 months ago it may have had a different outcome. Cheer up and give the guy a chance.
Yea, I understand he won either way, and like I said now its time to see if he an do what he says.
My point is that with the Electoral College, the election was over long before 8 – 10 states had cast their final ballots. That means that those 8 -10 states votes didn’t count as the election was determined before thier votes were counted, which is wrong. The other point was that the popular vote was a lot closer (52% Obama to 48% McCain) than the Electoral Vote led people to believe (364 /163 – basically 2/3 to 1/3).
The country is basically split, not 2/3 siding for Obama. Looking at the disparity closer leads to the conclusion that Obama won Electoral Votes in many places by only a thin margin. In my opinion this country is looking for change regardless, and if the democrats alienate half the US population with their historically bad partisan politicism (regardless of what they are saying now – and not saying Reps are better either) this country will be worse off than it is now.
Obama has a big hill to climb and the question is can he do what he says and climb the hill. Secondly, we have the technology now that makes the Electoral College obsolete and superfluous, so we need to get rid of it. Let the popular vote stand as the measure of the election, not the EC. Then we would have to wait for every vote to be counted and every vote would count.