Archive Report
Archive Report
Reappraisal After Close Election
’What If’ Factors in Nov. 2 Vote Distribution
When americans went to the polls on Nov. 2 they did not, technically speaking, cast their votes for any of the candidates running for President or Vice President. Rather they chose slates of pledged electors who will vote for their party's candidates on Dec. 13 in the 50 state capitals and the District of Columbia. After these votes are cast, official state certificates will be sent to Washington where they will be opened by the President of the Senate, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and counted by tellers at a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. The candidate receiving a majority of the electoral votes will formally be declared the winner.
This year, as after almost ...