It looks like the final electoral vote tally will be 364 for Obama and 174 for McCain. I'm including Missouri's 11 votes in that total. Officially the state is still listed as too close to call, but McCain has about a 5800 vote lead out of almost three million that were cast. State officials are still counting absentee ballots.
A couple of days ago I mentioned that Nebraska is the only state that splits its electoral votes based on the outcome in each congressional district. Well, turns out Maine does the same thing (I'll go back and correct the original post since it is likely to become an important reference tool for future scholars). Also, while all five of Nebraska's electoral votes are listed as being for McCain, there is now a strong possibility that one of them will go to Obama. Again, they are still counting some absentee ballots. The final totals should be out next week.
As the the popular vote stands now, Obama received 65,293,083 (53%) votes compared to 57,325,487 (46%) for McCain. The remaining 1% went to assorted minor party candidates.
Friday, November 07, 2008
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