Over the past few months, and most likely until the end of time now (or as long as he’s mentioned in the history books), people will be dabating on many things about Obama… may most likely will be completely untrue, others will be plausible enough that they won’t be able to be proven “true” in the minds of some, nor “false” in the minds of other — no matter what’s decided.
The biggest thing right now is the “Was Obama an Indonesian citizen?”, “was he really Muslim”, or even “was he even born in the USA?” The world may never get an answer to these that satisfies all.
And perhaps the biggest question of them all, assuming he is elected president by the actual people that vote on it, “will his ability to be president ever stop being questioned even after his 4 years are up?”
With all the comments floating around, and the electoral college still not actually casting the votes, is “president elect Obama” actually going to be president?
Will anyone even notice if President George Bush does anything? Like what if he starts a new war? What if he invades a country or something? Will the media and people ever find out, or will this “Obama’s elected, so everything’s different, let’s see what he’s up to now!” attidute make the people generally blinded to anything going on?
Now the question remains: will people be complaining about the election being rigged?
Now that it’s assumed that he’ll be president, I keep on looking at the actual votes cast — it’s close in a sense… under 2 million votes separate the two at the time of this post…. for me, personally, I prefer a much greater span of votes. The greater the span, the less divided the country truly is over who’s in office.
Perhaps it will grow, maybe not. But no matter what — a lot of people will most likely not be happy.
edit: 2.5 million votes separate them now… a bit better, but I’d really prefer 15 million.
Well at the time this is posted, it’s highly likely given general statistics and predictions. Now while it’s possible that everything will be tossed on its head, chances are Obama will be the new President.
Which leads to the questoin: did you really think he’d be the best president for the country?
Couldn’t you just picture it? A tie in the presidential race. While it’d be pretty unlikely to happen (an incident involving popular vote vs electoral college would be more likely), it’d just add to the uproar in the country.
For one, it’d go to the house to decide. And no matter what they’d choose — close to half of the country would disagree and claim some conspiracy. Perhaps it would be an interesting thing to have happen just to see how the people would react.
