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Re: Zogby Poll: Obama Loses Key Electoral Votes
The latest figures from pollster John Zogby show three key states have bolted from Obama, dropping him below the necessary 270 electoral votes.
Florida sent 27 electoral votes to John McCain, and both Colorado (9 votes) and New Hampshire (4 votes) went from Obama to undecided. The final tally has Obama down to 260 electoral votes '” 10 shy of the necessary 270 for election.
John McCain has 173 electoral votes. There are 105 votes yet to be decided in 12 states that are too close to call, according to Zogby. Polling was done from Aug. 15-19, 2008.
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Re: Zogby Poll: Obama Loses Key Electoral Votes
I have never for the life of me understood the workings of the electoral college, and probably never will the day I die. Presidential election budget allocation is another thing that takes a brain surgeon to break down.
So what does this mean?
Re: Zogby Poll: Obama Loses Key Electoral Votes
The electoral College was and still is designed to give strength to smaller states aand areas, and give them more meaning in an election. Otherwise, politicians would basically visit larger cities like NYC, LA, Chicago etc to get their votes, isolating states like Iowa, Louisiana etc. It really dates back to pre-media days, when politicians traveled by horse & carraige later by train. I suppose it also neutralizes the home state factor as well, if a gov from NY got 80% of the NY vote, it would still only count as it's 31 or so electoral votes. There are critics who argue it isn't needed anymore since alot of Candidate stops are televised. I think it's one of those things that will just go on & never be overturned. Partly because parties are afraid they'll shoot themselves in the foot (Overturn it thru ammendment then years later have their candidate lose as a result of the popular vote, when they would have won the college)
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