I, for one, am ready to find out who the president is going to be. From what I've heard from the media, whoever is elected is not going to be able to do much in office. At this point they are going to just have to lay low and do minimal work. Not make any sudden changes and basically keep the country as it's going now. If that's true, it doesn't really matter who's president.
I want to touch base about this electorial college thing again. First, my opinion is, it should be done away with. Living in a rural state (west virginia) I hear so many people complain about doing away with it "if they do away with the electoral college--then we will never see another presidential candidtate in this state." That's a good argument. BUT--all of you worried about this, I don't know about the statistics in YOUR state, but in mine I do. This was a close presidential election--obviously--so each candidate made a visit to WV 3 times. I think that's a record. Anyway, the only reason they came here was because they KNEW it was going to be tight. Last presidential candidate to visit WV before this election? John F. Kennedy!!!!! It's not like presidential candidates vist our state ANYWAY so it doesn't MATTER if they don't come here, it's not like all that many did in the first place!
Ok, on ANOTHER note, I have more info on the presidents elected in a year ending in 0. It's called 'the X factor'. Tucumpsa (indian--I don't remember how to spell) put a curse on the presidential election process--so to say. Any president elected in a year ending in 0 will die in office. After looking through one of Bryan's many history books, we found that every president elected in a year ending in 0 HAS died in office--except Reagan--and an attempt was made. So again, maybe we should have been electing a Vice President instead of a President! I thought I'd just add a bit more info for those of you wondering.
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