today is the day!!!!

GoldenAssassin wrote:

I still don't understand why some idiots keep saying "Every vote counts."

Clearly not.

2000, Gore took the popular vote. Yet he did not win because of the inherently-flawed electoral system. Some votes were more equal than others.

This year, the president was decided before Alaska's polls even closed. Their votes clearly did not count.

These US election threads are very interesting to me....I'm not very educated in US politics.
I'm not sure how it works there, but I can say that if this were the case in Australia......(the decision of who had won the election to run our country was decided before a states or shires votes had been counted), it would still make a difference. Those votes would count towards who had won in that states councils/shires and also then determine how many seats the overall winning party (the party who won the country's election) has in Parliament (how much power they have in parliament when making decisions on running our country).
Is this not the case there?

Oh and....no need to call people idiots

Commy wrote:

no its not the case here. it all or none here. If you lose, you and your party get NO representation in gov't. I wish it was like that.

Wow. Thanks for answering - very interesting.