OK, a little political education.

[gridlore]

Daily now, we're being bombarded by the results of various polls conducted nationwide about the election.

Ignore them. Because, as most of you Americans should remember, we don't elect the President, the Electoral College does. We vote for the electors. In all but Maine and Nebraska these votes (one for each member of Congress [both houses]) are winner take all. Say Obama takes California by the slimmest of margins, 51/49. He still gets all 55 votes in the college. So the important thing is how the states are feeling.

Which is where electoral-vote.com comes in. Daily updates on how the states are leaning.



270 are needed to win.

Comments

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

The Electoral College is, IMO, largely an artifact of a time when prompt polling - let alone nearly real-time polling - was impractical or impossible. Times and technology have changed, but the method of electing our leaders has not.

There are things to be said both for and against "but that's how we've always done it."