In point of fact, former Senator Obama has not been elected President yet. November 4, 2008 was merely the election of Presidential Electors. The new members of the Electoral College in turn will meet on December 15, 2008 in their respective State Capitals to cast their votes for President of the United States. The Senate will meet on January 8, 2009 to count the ballots. Whomever (99.999999999999% certain to be former Senator Obama)gets the most vote will then become the President-Elect for a whole 12 days before taking the oath of office as POTUS.
What should we call former Senator in the meantime? President-designate. Because the results of the November election clearly indicated that Americans wanted him to be the next President (i.e., we collectively designated him to be the next POTUS).
No one else probably cares about this, but I find it extremely irritating and further evidence the MSM is lazy and stupid.
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It seems to me that he is still the President-elect because the populous has designated electors, and those in the college are prescribed to vote a certain way on the first ballot, which will clearly go to Obama. It just seems to me that you re splitting hairs and also that the term itself is not necessarily wrong.
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