President-elect

[pne]

I keep hearing Obama referred to as "president-elect".

Strictly speaking, though, he won't be until the Electoral College up and elects him, though, won't he? Right now, people have only voted for electors; they just (many of them) thought they're voting for the next president.

Though I imagine having an elector vote for someone other than they pledged to do (or not voting at all) is probably rather rare.

Comments

[node-ue.livejournal.com]

Actually, here in Arizona, I think we did know who our electors would be. I voted absentee, and on the ballot, above the name of the candidate and their running mate, in much smaller print, were the names of 10 people I'd never heard of and whose names I couldn't find online, with one exception (a local democratic politician).

I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that's who they were.

[leora.livejournal.com]

Oh neat. I didn't notice any such thing on my ballot, but also I'm legally blind, so it might have been there and I may have missed it.

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

I can confirm that there was no such thing on my ballot in MA this year or NH four years ago.