When will Obama officially win the election
By Pitstop
@pitstop (15551)
Australia
November 5, 2008 9:45am CST
For the past 12 hours I have heard several terms used - projections, phonecalls, polls, senate, house etc etc. Is all the counting over?
I'm just curious as to when the process ends / has ended and when Obama is officially the winner.
Also when does he take over as the president!
Sorry for these basic queries - but thats just me!
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2 responses
@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
5 Nov 08
The counting is over, and Barack Obama has won, save some mess the republicans may bring up in order to gain a recount. Even that isn't likely, because Barack ran away with the Electoral College, so a recount is really unnecessary. But Obama will officially take the office in January, so we actually have another two months of this mess with Bush, and then change can begin!!!
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@Kowgirl (3489)
• United States
5 Nov 08
No it's not over until December when the elector voting is done.
And it could still go the other way if some of them decide to vote
against the state votes. It has happened and could happen again.
Candidates can fail to get the most votes in the nationwide popular vote in a presidential election and still win that election. This occurred in 1876, 1888 and 2000.
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
6 Nov 08
I hope you're not holding your breath for some groundbreaking change, Kowgirl. What you are talking about I believe is the Electoral College. A candidate needs 270 votes at the least to win the election. Obama spanked McCain's booty in that category. He got 349 electoral votes all together. Way more than necessary. Sorry but I don't know when the campaign was called, but I heard the news last night after 11pm est (At the time he only had 333 electoral votes), and again this morning.
