President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida’s 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin
margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have
brought back memories of 2000.
No matter the outcome, Obama had already clinched re-election and now has 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206.
Like the Battle of New Orleans, the vote in Florida didn't change the outcome.
It’s normal for election supervisors in Florida and other states to
spend days after any election counting absentee, provisional, military
and overseas ballots. Usually, though, the election has already been
called on election night or soon after because the winner’s margin is
beyond reach.
And don't we all know that? The "razor-thin margin" of 74,000 votes was sufficient not to trigger a recount - not that anyone would pay attention. Thank you, Colorado, Nevada, and Ohio!
On behalf of Ohio, you're welcome ... here we say it means Only Handle It Once, so a recount would simply make our flesh crawl ... the Fla. behavior is a mystery to us even though our "snow birds" winter there ... and we know ALL about who helped the auto industry get its act together and that matters more than all the empty talk.
ReplyDeleteLouisiana once did recounts when we used the machine in which you pulled the levers. If the vote was very close, the candidate with the least votes could ask for a recount. I don't know about now, with computer voting and no paper confirmation, how a recount would be done. I think we should have a printed paper ballot after voting.
DeleteFlorida's governor should be ridden out on a rail for making voters stand in line for hours and hours.
Not a landslide (nationwide), but nevertheless a comfortable win for da Prez.
ReplyDeleteHard to believe that a week ago I was very worried that, even if President Obama won in the Electoral College, he might get a minority of the popular vote! :-/
I thought Obama would win, but I still sweated until the result was announced. That's what I don't understand about the Republicans - how they could be so shocked with disbelief when they lost. Was no one in the inner circle sweating? Were they afraid to speak out?
DeleteActually, Ohio was another state where it didn't matter. Although it was Ohio put the President over the top on election night, the fact that he won Colorado and Nevada meant that there would be no need for recounts that depended on the integrity of manifestly corrupt GOP operatives.
ReplyDeleteMalcolm, I thought that might be true, but I was too tired to look it up last night. I watched TV Tuesday evening, but I was nervous at the time, and I couldn't remember the sequence.
DeleteI thought Florida was still counting hanging chads.
ReplyDeleteNo more hanging chads, whiteycat. The new system is to fill in circles. The people in Florida should not have to wait hours to fill in circles.
DeleteI was just kidding. I thought maybe they were still working on Bush-Gore votes and so it took four days to decide Obama - Romney.
DeleteFlorida's voting process makes the powers-that-be a laughing stock. When will they ever learn?
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