As another poster pointed out Obama is NOT YET the President Elect per Amendment 20, Section 3. He does not ‘officially’ become the President Elect until January 6th, when the ‘electors’ present their nomination to Congress, upon which Congress affirms.
Right now all he has is a number of ‘electors’ getting ready to vote on December 15th.
The ‘media’ refers to him as the President-Elect, but in reality that’s false because the Electoral college has not yet met.
Yep. But for all intents and purposes he is the one elected. Our Founders were more careful in their speech but we have gotten lazy. Also I think there is such a big time lapse in between events because travel used to be much slower.