Your vote could decide state’s electoral votes
Please let me share with you the importance of your vote in the Nov. 4 election of the president of the United States.
The president is elected by a majority (one-half plus one) of electoral votes. The number of electoral votes a state has is determined by the total number of representatives and senators a state has in Congress. North Carolina has 15 electoral votes. The candidate who gets 270 of the 538 electoral votes becomes our president.
The candidate who gets a majority of the votes cast in North Carolina on Nov. 4 gets North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes.
Your vote could be the one vote that gives the presidential candidate the majority of electoral votes needed to be president. This is how important your vote is.
James W. Swindell
High Point
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This year, in North Carolina, this might actually be true.
Posted on October 8, 2008 3:47 AM
Please, please, please let it be a tie.
Posted on October 8, 2008 7:40 AM
No tie, please! I was pregnant in 2000 and almost had a nervous breakdown during the months that I woke up each morning remembering that the presidential race was STILL NOT OVER! I don't think I could go through another mess like that. I want to go home after closing the polls, sleep in the next morning, then turn on the news and find out how tightly I need to continue clinging to my guns and religion.
Posted on October 8, 2008 3:39 PM