[rightwingintelligentsia]

Ummm . . isn’t the election in November?

[jpl]

For Republicans the vote is in November, Democrats vote in January.

[proudpapa]

Actually the election is in December:

“Electors meet in their respective state capitals (or in the case of Washington, D.C., within the District) on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, at which time they cast their electoral votes on separate ballots for President and Vice President.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College

[Always Right]

Ummm . . isn’t the election in November?

That's what GW thought. But with the court cases and recounts, it went well into December.

[HawaiianGecko]

I'm sure he screwed up, but technically January 6, 2009 is when the next president 'technically' wins.  On the 1st Monday after the second Wednesday of December the 'electors' of each state get together in their respective states and cast their votes.  These 'electors' can vote for the other guy (known as a faithless elector), it has probably happened before, but I'm not aware of it.  Then the results of the 'electors' are presented to a joint session of congress on January 6th (12th amendment), counted and the results declared by both houses of congress.

[Jim W N]

Ummm . . isn’t the election in November?

He's probably counting on the obligatory 3-month DEMOniCRAT legal army to challenge the election results in anyway possible.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

No, there is not one election in November, there are 51 separate elections, one in each state and one in the District of Columbia. Those elections are for electors, not for the president. The electors cast their votes in December and the totals for each candidate for president and vice president are certified by the electors and sent to Washington where they are held until after the new Congress is sworn in in January. Technically, we do not know who will be the president until those certificates are opened and tallied in a joint session of Congress.

If no candidate receivea a majority of the votes (270 electoral votes), the House choses the president on a one-state, one-vote ballot with 26 state votes required. That may happen in January or it may happen in February or in March depending upon the makeup of the individual House delegations.

Technically, McCain is correct, he will be declared the winner in January.

[LonePalm]

We vote for Electors in November.

The Electors vote for President and Vice-President in December.

The results are officially announced in January.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Paleo Conservative]

Ummm . . isn’t the election in November?

Just the beauty pagent. The Electoral College meets in all the state capitols in December, and the results sent to the US Capitol by US Mail. The results are tabulated and reported by the President of the Senate in January after the new congress is sworn in. So technically McCain is correct.

Of course if no candidate wins a majority in the Electoral College, then the President will be chosen by the House of Representatives with each state delegation having one vote.

[sportutegrl]

Maybe he thinks Obama will pull an Al Gore and challenge the election until January.

[sportutegrl]

Maybe he thinks Obama will pull an Al Gore and challenge the election until January.