365 to 173
by Jonathan Singer, Mon Dec 15, 2008 at 04:10:40 PM EST
Per the Associated Press, it's official:
More than 131 million voters cast ballots -- the most ever in a presidential election. But Obama's election is not complete until Congress tallies the outcome of Monday's Electoral College vote at a joint session scheduled for Jan. 6.Monday's voting was largely ceremonial, the results preordained by Obama's Nov. 4 victory over Republican Sen. John McCain. Obama won 365 electoral votes, to 173 for McCain. With every state reporting, all the electors had cast ballots in accordance with the popular votes in their states.
Unlike the last two elections, there do not appear to have been any faithless or mistaken electors, keeping the electoral college tally as expected. As mentioned in the article, Congress still has to tally the vote from the electoral college, so not every step in the process has been completed. But for now we're one step closer to Barack Obama becoming the 44th President of the United States.
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