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The Green Papers: 2008 General Election
 
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Vote: Monday 15 December 2008 		Copyright www.flags.net/UNST.htm
 
During the Year 2008
'Each political Party or Independent presidential candidate nominates Electors in each State or equivalent'
 
Appointment of Electors: Well before the General Election in Presidential Election years, Elector-candidates are nominated (for these do not become actual "Electors" unless and until the presidential/vice-presidential ticket to whom they are "pledged" actually wins the Popular Vote in their jurisdiction through the results of voting in that General Election) by either Political Parties or by the listing of slates of such potential Electors for an Independent (or "Third Party") candidate on a petition for ballot access in a State (or the District of Columbia). It is commonest practice for such Elector-candidates (who, at least in the case of the Major Parties, almost always are Party insiders for whom being so nominated is an honor bestowed because of their loyal service to the Party) to be nominated for the position of Presidential Elector at the same time as, or at least in coordination with, the State (or D.C.)'s final determination of those who are to be at-large delegates to the Party's National Convention being held in the Summer of the Presidential Election year (though this is not always the case): thus, most such Elector-candidates are actually chosen even before the Parties have formally nominated their presidential/vice-presidential ticket contesting the General Election at said National Convention. Elector-candidates, however, can only be constitutionally "appointed" (that is, actually become) Electors as a result of the voting in that General Election.
 
 
Tuesday 4 November 2008
''The voters go to the polls and Electors are "appointed" as a result of the Popular Vote for President in each State or equivalent'
 
General Election: The voters in each State (& D.C.) "appoint" (based on their respective choices from among the presidential/vice-presidential tickets on the ballot in their State) slates of Electors to serve in the so-called "Electoral College" ('so-called' because the 538 Electors never ever meet all together in one place as the term "Electoral College" might imply) based on the law in each State (& D.C.). 48 States and the District of Columbia "appoint" their Electors on a winner-take-all basis (that is, the presidential/vice-presidential ticket with the plurality of the Statewide vote [= most votes from the State] is intended to get all that jurisdiction's Electors). In each of the two remaining States, Maine and Nebraska, the presidential/vice-presidential ticket that receives the plurality of the vote in each Congressional District is intended to get the vote of the 1 "district" Elector from that CD, while the presidential/vice-presidential ticket receiving the most votes Statewide is intended to get the votes of 2 "at-large" Electors from the State.
 
(Apparent electoral vote -- 270 needed to be elected.)
Obama: 365
McCain: 173
Other: 0
 
 
Monday 15 December 2008
''The Electors meet in each State [and the District of Columbia] and formally cast their Electoral Votes'
 
Place and Time of Meeting of Electors: The Electors meet within their respective States or D.C. (again, there is no all-up meeting of the entire "Electoral College"-- each such Elector meeting is, in effect, one of 51 separate meetings of 51 different "Electoral College"s [one for each of the 50 States plus D.C.]), with each Elector in attendance casting 1 "Electoral Vote" for, separately, President and Vice President of the United States. No provision of the U.S. Constitution or Federal law requires Electors to vote in accordance with the Popular Vote in their respective jurisdictions from which they have been "appointed" in the General Election; however, State law or State Party rules (where these are authorized by State law to do so) might (or, for that matter, might not!) require that State's Electors to cast their Electoral Votes for the presidential/vice-presidential candidate to which they have been "pledged" via the results of the Popular Vote in that State cast during the General Election. The Electors record their votes on six Certificates of Vote and six Certificates of Ascertainment (three Certificates of each type for each of the two high Offices for whom the Electors are voting) and then sign, seal, and certify each set. One set for each high Office is sent to the President of the Senate (currently Vice President Richard B. "Dick" Cheney), while two sets for each high Office are sent to the Archivist. The Federal Register preserves one archival set for each high Office and holds the other set aside, subject to the possible call of the President of the Senate (again, in the case of the 2008 Election, Vice President Cheney) to replace potentially missing or incomplete Electoral Vote certifications among other sets of Certificates.
 
Tally of electors from Certificates of Ascertainment
Obama: 365
McCain: 173
Other: 0
51 of 51 Jurisdictions reporting
 
Tally of electors from Certificates of Vote
Obama: 365
McCain: 173
Other: 0
51 of 51 Jurisdictions reporting
 
THE "FAITHLESS ELECTORS" - Presidential Electors who have defected in the past
 
 
Thursday 8 January 2009
'The Electoral Votes are counted and tabulated before a Joint Session of Congress, after which it is officially declared who has been elected President and Vice President'
122 Stat. 4846 changed the date of the electoral vote in Congress from 6 January to 8 January 2009. This date change is effective only for the 2008 presidential election.
 
The so-called "Tabulation Joint Session of Congress": Congress meets in Joint Session (that is, Senate and House meeting together as a single body in the House of Representatives chamber in the U.S. Capitol) to formally count and tabulate the Electoral Votes with the President of the Senate (once more, re: the 2008 Election, Vice President Richard B. "Dick" Cheney) as the presiding officer of this so-called "Tabulation Joint Session". If at least one Senator and at least one House member jointly submit an objection to the counting of the Electoral Vote of any State (or D.C.), each House is required to immediately retire to its respective chamber to consider such an objection separately. If a State submits conflicting sets of Electoral Votes to Congress, the same procedure is utilized (the two houses immediately adjourn to their respective chambers to deal with the issue). If both houses, considering such an issue separately, happen to concur in the result (that is, they both agree as to whether or not a State's Electoral Vote should be counted and tabulated or they agree as to which set of conflicting Electoral Votes to count and tabulate), they return to Joint Session, count and tabulate the Electoral Votes they have thereby accepted and then continue with and complete the counting and tabulation of any remaining Electoral Votes (unless, of course, there should be another such objection raised re: another State); if, on the other hand, the two houses do not concur in the result, the votes of those Electors certified by the Governor of the State (or Mayor of Washington, D.C.) in question must be counted and tabulated as the Electoral Vote from that State (or D.C.), without exception, once the Joint Session is resumed. A candidate for President or Vice President must achieve a majority of the Electoral Vote (270 out of the total 538) in order to be declared elected by the President of the Senate (Vice-President Dick Cheney in this case) at the conclusion of the Tabulation Joint Session. In the absence of such a majority, the House (voting by State and not as individuals [a majority of States (26 of 51) being required]) selects the President, while the Senate (voting as individuals and not by State [a majority of Senators (51 of 100) being required]) selects the Vice President.
 
Final Electoral Vote for President (270 needed to be elected)
Obama: 365
McCain: 173
Other: 0
 
Final Electoral Vote for Vice President (270 needed to be elected)
Biden: 365
Palin: 173
Other: 0
 

 
Reference: NARA | Federal Register | U.S. Electoral College

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Alabama   9 Electors. Population 2000 census: 4,447,100. 1,266,546 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainLes Barnett
2McCainWill Sellers
3McCainRalph A. Blythe
4McCainW. Jack Stiefel
5McCainJ. Elbert Peters
6McCainMatthew Fridy
7McCainRobert A. Cusanelli
8McCainCam Ward
9McCainJames E. Wilson
Alaska   3 Electors. Population 2000 census: 626,932. 193,841 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainRoy Burkhart
2McCainHope Nelson
3McCainRobert Brodie
Arizona   10 Electors. Population 2000 census: 4,447,100. 1,230,111 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainBruce Ash
2McCainKurt Davis
3McCainWes Gullett
4McCainSharon Harper
5McCainJack Londen
6McCainBeverly Lockett Miller
7McCainLee Miller
8McCainBettina Nava
9McCainRandy Pullen
10McCainD. Michael Rappoport
Arkansas   6 Electors. Population 2000 census: 2,673,400. 638,017 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainJim Burnett
2McCainReta Hamilton
3McCainRose Bryant Jones
4McCainPhyllis Kincannon
5McCainSteve Lux
6McCainKermit Parks
California   55 Electors. Population 2000 census: 33,871,648. 8,274,473 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaJaime A. Alvarado
2ObamaWilliam F. Gustav Ayer
3ObamaJoe Baca Jr.
4ObamaIan Robert Blue
5ObamaRoberta C Brooks
6ObamaNathan Eric Brostrom
7ObamaMark H Cibula
8ObamaRobert D. Conaway
9ObamaRaymond L. Cordova
10ObamaLawrence Steven Du Bois
11ObamaJames Paul Farley
12ObamaJohn Freidenrich
13ObamaMark Friedman
14ObamaBobby Gene Glaser
15ObamaAudrey Gordon
16ObamaIllene Haber
17ObamaRobert "Bob" M. Handy
18ObamaMary W. Hubert
19ObamaAleita Huguenin
20ObamaRichard Allen Hundrieser
21ObamaFred D. Jackson
22ObamaPatrick Kelly Kahler
23ObamaMary Elizabeth Keadle
24ObamaLeRoy King
25ObamaVinz J. Koller
26ObamaMark A Macarro
27ObamaAlma Marquez
28ObamaAna Delgado Mascarenas
29ObamaBetty McMillion
30ObamaMichael McNerney
31ObamaGwen Moore
32ObamaJeremy Seiji Nishihara
33ObamaGregory Ray Olzack
34ObamaNancy Jean Parrish
35ObamaLou Paulson
36ObamaJoe Perez
37ObamaAnthony Rendon
38ObamaFrank G. Salazar
39ObamaDavid A. Sanchez
40ObamaLarry Sheingold
41ObamaLane Sherman
42ObamaStephen Allen Smith
43ObamaJuadina Stallings
44ObamaKenneth D. Sulzer
45ObamaAaruni Kumar Thakur
46ObamaNorma Judith Torres
47ObamaSilissa Uriarte-Smith
48ObamaSid Voorakkara
49ObamaGreg Warner
50ObamaKaren D. Waters
51ObamaSanford Weiner
52ObamaGregory Howes Willenborg
53ObamaKelley Schnaitter Willis
54ObamaJames L. Yedor
55ObamaChristine Raye Young
Colorado   9 Electors. Population 2000 census: 4,301,261. 1,288,576 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaWellington Webb
2ObamaTerry Phillips
3ObamaCamilla Auger
4ObamaPam Shaddock
5ObamaJennifer Trujillo-Sanchez
6ObamaDon Strickland
7ObamaAnn Knoll man
8ObamaMargaret Atencio
9ObamaPolly Baca
Connecticut   7 Electors. Population 2000 census: 3,405,565. 997,763 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaShirley W. Steinmetz
2ObamaNicholas Paindiris
3ObamaAndrea Jackson Brooks
4ObamaJim Ezzes
5ObamaLorraine McQueen
6ObamaDeborah McFadden
7ObamaKen Delacruz
Delaware   3 Electors. Population 2000 census: 783,600. 255,459 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaJames Johnson
2ObamaEdward Kaufman
3ObamaHarriet Smith Windsor
District of Columbia   3 Electors. Population 2000 census: 572,059. 245,800 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaMuriel Bowser
2ObamaJerry S. Cooper
3ObamaVincent Gray
Florida   27 Electors. Population 2000 census: 15,982,378. 4,282,074 popular votes cast for electors pledged to pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaWillis Chip Arndt, Jr.
2ObamaT. Wayne Bailey
3ObamaFred Balsera
4ObamaTerrie Brady
5ObamaKarl Flagg
6ObamaJoe Gibbons
7ObamaJanet Goen
8ObamaJames Golden
9ObamaChris Hand
10ObamaMarlon Hill
11ObamaTony Hill
12ObamaJoan Joseph
13ObamaAllan Katz
14ObamaGena Keebler
15ObamaJoan Lane
16ObamaCaren Lobo
17ObamaRick Minor
18ObamaJared Moskowitz
19ObamaAngela Rodante
20ObamaFrank Sanchez
21ObamaJuanita Scott
22ObamaGeraldine Thompson
23ObamaKaren Thurman
24ObamaCarmen Torres
25ObamaKirk Wagar
26ObamaEnoch Williams
27ObamaFrederica Wilson
Georgia   15 Electors. Population 2000 census: 8,186,453. 2,048,744 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainEsther Clark
2McCainDennis Coxwell
3McCainNorma Edenfield
4McCainRandy Evans
5McCainSue P. Everhart
6McCainLeigh Ann Gillis
7McCainJudy Goddard
8McCainLinda Herren
9McCainRufus Montgomery
10McCainClint Murphy
11McCainSunny Park
12McCainAlec Poitevint
13McCainJohn Sours
14McCainAllan Vigil
15McCainJohn White
Hawaii   4 Electors. Population 2000 census: 1,211,537. 325,871 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaJoy Kobashiga Wa Lewis
2ObamaMarie Doloers Stmzar
3ObamaAmefil Agba Yani
4ObamaFrances K. Kaga Wa
Idaho   4 Electors. Population 2000 census: 1,293,953. 403,012 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainDarlene Bramon
2McCainBen Doty
3McCainJohn Erickson
4McCainMelinda Smyser
Illinois   21 Electors. Population 2000 census: 12,419,293. 3,419,673 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaConstance A. Howard
2ObamaCarrie Austin
3ObamaAndrew Madigan
4ObamaRicardo Munoz
5ObamaJames DeLeo
6ObamaMarge Friedman
7ObamaVera Davis
8ObamaNancy Shepardson
9ObamaWilliam Marovitz
10ObamaLauren Beth Gash
11ObamaDebbie Halvorson
12ObamaMolly McKenzie
13ObamaJulia Kennedy Beckman
14ObamaMark Guethle
15ObamaLynn Foster
16ObamaJohn Nelson
17ObamaMary Boland
18ObamaShirley McCombs
19ObamaDon Johnston
20ObamaBarbara Flynn Currie
21ObamaJohn R. Daley
Indiana   11 Electors. Population 2000 census: 6,080,485. 1,374,039 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaJeffrey L. Chidester
2ObamaOwen "Butch" Morgan
3ObamaMichelle Boxell
4ObamaCharlotte Martin
5ObamaJerry J. Lux
6ObamaConnie Southworth
7ObamaAlan P. Hogan
8ObamaMyrna E. Brown
9ObamaClarence Benjamin
10ObamaDaniel J. Parker
11ObamaCordelia Lewis Burks
Iowa   7 Electors. Population 2000 census: 2,926,324. 828,940 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaElwood Thompson
2ObamaSlayton Thompson
3ObamaKathleen O'Leary
4ObamaJon Heitland
5ObamaDennis Ryan
6ObamaJoe Judge
7ObamaAudrey Linville
Kansas   6 Electors. Population 2000 census: 2,688,418. 699,655 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainTom Arpke
2McCainDavid Kensinger
3McCainMike Pompeo
4McCainJeff Colyer
5McCainKris Kobach
6McCainHelen Van Etten
Kentucky   8 Electors. Population 2000 census: 4,041,769. 1,048,462 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainRobert E. Gable
2McCainElizabeth G. Thomas
3McCainJames Henry Snider
4McCainAmy B. Towles
5McCainWalter A. Baker
6McCainNancy Mitchell
7McCainEdna M. Fulkerson
8McCainDon Ball
Louisiana   9 Electors. Population 2000 census: 4,468,976. 1,148,275 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainDianne Christopher
2McCainRoger F. Villere, Jr.
3McCainLynn E. Skidmore
4McCainJoe Lavigne
5McCainBilly Nungesser
6McCainAlan Seabaugh
7McCainKaren Haymon
8McCainCharles Davis
9McCainCharlie Buckels
Maine   4 Electors. Population 2000 census: 1,274,923. 421,923 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaJill Duson
2ObamaSamuel Shapiro
3ObamaRobert 0 'Brien
4ObamaTracie Reed
Maryland   10 Electors. Population 2000 census: 5,296,486. ,629,467 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaGene Ransom
2ObamaA.G. Bobby Fouche
3ObamaDelores Kelley
4ObamaElizabeth Bobo
5ObamaGuy Guzzone
6ObamaMichael Barnes
7ObamaNathaniel Exum
8ObamaSusan Lee
9ObamaChristopher Reynolds
10ObamaRainier Harvey
Massachusetts   12 Electors. Population 2000 census: 6,349,097. 1,904,097 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaSamuel Poulten
2ObamaMelvin Poindexter
3ObamaJason Whittet
4ObamaJoseph H. Kaplan
5ObamaJohn P. Brissette
6ObamaRaymond A. Jordan
7ObamaPatricia Marcus
8ObamaBrenda Brathwaite
9ObamaCarol Pacheco
10ObamaMary Anne Dube
11ObamaFaye Morrison
12ObamaCorinne Wingard
Michigan   17 Electors. Population 2000 census: 9,938,444. 2,872,579 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaRon Gettelfinger
2ObamaJames Hoffa
3ObamaRichard B. West
4ObamaDallas Dean
5ObamaIda I. DeHaas
6ObamaGary Shepherd
7ObamaArturo Reyes II
8ObamaWhitney Randall Wolcott
9ObamaBrenda Abbey
10ObamaGriffin Rivers
11ObamaDavid T. Woodward
12ObamaKenneth Paul Jenkins
13ObamaJessica Mistak
14ObamaCharlene Yarbrough
15ObamaHarry Kalogerakos
16ObamaRoger Short
17ObamaArthur D. Shy
Minnesota   10 Electors. Population 2000 census: 4,919,479. 1,573,354 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaArthur Alfred Anderson
2ObamaBill Davis
3ObamaJim Gremmels
4ObamaBenjamin Franklin Gross
5ObamaDavid W. Lee
6ObamaWilliam Matthew Little
7ObamaAlvin William Patton
8ObamaJackie Stevenson
9ObamaJoan Marie Wittman
10ObamaDonyta Jeannea Wright
Mississippi   6 Electors. Population 2000 census: 2,844,658. 724,597 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainJim Barksdale
2McCainBarry Bridgforth
3McCainFred Carl
4McCainBobby Chain
5McCainCharles Doty
6McCainVictor Mavar
Missouri   11 Electors. Population 2000 census: 5,595,211. 1,445,814 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainWillis Corbett
2McCainScott Dickenson
3McCainRobert Haul
4McCainRonny Margason
5McCainCathy Owens
6McCainRon Muck
7McCainGene Hall
8McCainR. Mellene Schudy
9McCainNadine Thurman
10McCainPaul Nahon
11McCainJerry Dowell
Montana   3 Electors. Population 2000 census: 902,195. 242,763 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainErrol Galt
2McCainThelma Baker
3McCainJohn Brenden
Nebraska   5 Electors. Population 2000 census: 1,711,263. Two at-large electors represent the statewide winning presidential and vice presidential candidates and one elector each from its three Congressional districts represent the winning presidential and vice presidential candidates from that district. First Congressional District: 148,179 popular votes cast for the elector pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin. Second Congressional District: 138,752 popular votes cast for the elector pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Third Congressional District: 169,361 popular votes cast for the elector pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin. Statewide: 452,979 popular votes cast for the at-large electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
CD 1McCainCharles Thone
CD 2ObamaWilliam Forsee
CD 3McCainD. Neal Smith
At-LargeMcCainNorman Riffel
At-LargeMcCainPatricia Dorwart
Nevada   5 Electors. Population 2000 census: 1,998,257. 533,736 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaTahis Castro
2ObamaRuby Duncan
3ObamaRonald L. Hibble
4ObamaMaggie A. Carlton
5ObamaTheresa E. Navarro
New Hampshire   4 Electors. Population 2000 census: 1,235,786. 384,826 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaMartha Fuller Clark
2ObamaGaeten DiGangi
3ObamaEdgar Helms
4ObamaKathleen Sullivan
New Jersey   15 Electors. Population 2000 census: 8,414,350. 2,215,422 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaJose Colon
2ObamaWilliam Fontanez
3ObamaGina Genovese
4ObamaWilma Grey
5ObamaKevin G. Halpern
6ObamaVictor J. Herlinsky, Jr.
7ObamaStacy Lubrecht
8ObamaSalaheddin Mustafa
9ObamaPeter D. Nichols
10ObamaWilliam W. Northgrave
11ObamaKen Saunders
12ObamaGinger Gold Schnitzer
13ObamaCarl E. Styles
14ObamaShavonda Sumter
15ObamaStephen S. Weinstein
New Mexico   5 Electors. Population 2000 census: 1,819,046. 472,422 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaBrian S. Colon
2ObamaAnnadelle Sanchez
3ObamaTom Buckner
4ObamaChristy French
5ObamaAlvin Warren
New York   31 Electors. Population 2000 census: 18,976,457. 4,610,809 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaVelda Jeffrey
2ObamaJune F. O'Neill
3ObamaDennis Mehiel
4ObamaDavid A. Paterson
5ObamaAndrew Cuomo
6ObamaThomas P. DiNapoli
7ObamaSheldon Silver
8ObamaMalcolm Smith
9ObamaMaria Luna
10ObamaRobert Master
11ObamaPamela Green-Perkins
12ObamaHelen D. Foster
13ObamaJon Cooper
14ObamaHakeem Jeffries
15ObamaRichard Fife
16ObamaDeborah A. Slott
17ObamaTerrence Yang
18ObamaGeorge Arthur
19ObamaGeorge Gresham
20ObamaAlan Van Capelle
21ObamaInez Dickens
22ObamaSuzy Ballantyne
23ObamaAlan Lubin
24ObamaBethaida Gonzalez
25ObamaChristine Quinn
26ObamaWilliam Thompson
27ObamaStuart Applebaum
28ObamaMaritza Davila
29ObamaIvan Young
30ObamaBarbara Fiala
31ObamaFrank A. Bolz, III
North Carolina   15 Electors. Population 2000 census: 8,049,313. 2,142,651 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaJanice Cole
2ObamaLouise Sewell
3ObamaVirginia Tillett
4ObamaLinda Gunter
5ObamaTimothy Futrelle
6ObamaWayne Abraham
7ObamaArmin Jancis
8ObamaWendy Wood
9ObamaMichael Cognac
10ObamaDan W. DeHart
11ObamaHarley Caldwell
12ObamaSamuel Spencer, IV
13ObamaPatricia Hawkins
14ObamaDavid Crawford
15ObamaKara Hollingsworth
North Dakota   3 Electors. Population 2000 census: 642,200. 168,601 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainRichard Elkin
2McCainCleo Thompson
3McCainSusan Wefald
Ohio   20 Electors. Population 2000 census: 11,353,140. 2,933,388 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaCatherine Barrett
2ObamaBarbara Tuckerman
3ObamaWade Kapszukiewicz
4ObamaTamela Lee
5ObamaRenee Cafaro
6ObamaVictoria Wulsin
7ObamaCraig Brown
8ObamaJimmy Cotner
9ObamaJanet Carson
10ObamaBruce Johnson
11ObamaNannette Whaley
12ObamaMartha Jane Brooks
13ObamaEugene Miller
14ObamaFran Alberty
15ObamaChris Redfern
16ObamaJohn Kostyo
17ObamaKelly Gillis
18ObamaCharleta Tavares
19ObamaMichael Todd
20ObamaTed Strickland
Oklahoma   7 Electors. Population 2000 census: 3,450,654. 960,165 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainVirginia Chrisco
2McCainGail Stice
3McCainPete Katzdorn
4McCainRobert Cleveland
5McCainMary Phyllis Gorman
6McCainBunny Chambers
7McCainDiane Murphy Gunther
Oregon   7 Electors. Population 2000 census: 3,421,399. 1,037,291 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaMichael J. Bohan
2ObamaShirley A. Cairns
3ObamaR.P. Joe Smith
4ObamaJohn C. McColgan
5ObamaMeredith Wood Smith
6ObamaFrank James Dixon
7ObamaBernard Gorter
Pennsylvania   21 Electors. Population 2000 census: 12,281,054. 3,276,363 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaLynne Abraham
2ObamaJohn S. Brenner
3ObamaEileen Connelly
4ObamaKathi Cozzone
5ObamaJohn K. Fetterman
6ObamaWilliam M. George
7ObamaPatrick Gillespie
8ObamaJ. Richard Gray
9ObamaFranco Harris
10ObamaGeorge P. Hartwick, III
11ObamaDaylin Leach
12ObamaChristopher A. Lewis
13ObamaValerie McDonald-Roberts
14ObamaThomas McMahon
15ObamaRobert J. Mellow
16ObamaMichael A. Nutter
17ObamaCorey D. O'Brien
18ObamaJoshua Shapiro
19ObamaJack Wagner
20ObamaMichael J. Washo
21ObamaWendell W. Young, IV
Rhode Island   4 Electors. Population 2000 census: 1,048,319. 296,571 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaMaryellen Goodwin
2ObamaCharlene Lima
3ObamaJohn J. McConnell, Jr.
4ObamaMark Weiner
South Carolina   8 Electors. Population 2000 census: 4,012,012. 1,034,896 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainBenny Kinlaw
2McCainBetty Sheppard Poe
3McCainKaton E. Dawson
4McCainPatrick Bonner Haddon
5McCainRebecca W. Delleney
6McCainShelby M. Phillips
7McCainSusan Aiken
8McCainWayland Moody
South Dakota   3 Electors. Population 2000 census: 754,844. 203,054 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainMike Rounds
2McCainDennis Daugaard
3McCainLarry Long
Tennessee   11 Electors. Population 2000 census: 5,689,283. 1,479,178 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainBeth Campbell
2McCainMarilucile Counce
3McCainJ. Wayne Cropp
4McCainShirley Curry
5McCainWinfield Dunn Jim
6McCainHaslam, II
7McCainChrystal Horne
8McCainAlbert McCall, Sr.
9McCainColin Richmond
10McCainSara Sellers
11McCainLisa Wheeler
Texas   34 Electors. Population 2000 census: 20,851,820. 4,479,328 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainGenny Hensz
2McCainTalmadge Heflin
3McCainMarcia Daughtrey
4McCainVirgil Vickery
5McCainCharlie O'Reilly
6McCainBrenda Zielke
7McCainMary Darby
8McCainMelba McDow
9McCainPaul Pressler
10McCainJames Wiggins
11McCainDeborah Cupples
12McCainFrank Alvarez
13McCainRuss Duerstine
14McCainZan Prince
15McCainBruce Harris
16McCainGordon Starkenburg
17McCainSandra Cararas
18McCainDonene O'Dell
19McCainLarry Lovelace
20McCainNelda Eppes
21McCainKenneth Corbin
22McCainGene Ryder
23McCainBob Hierynomus
24McCainTerese Raia
25McCainArturo Martinez de Vara
26McCainThomas Ferguson
27McCainRobert Long
28McCainPat Peale
29McCainJoel Yowell
30McCainJudith Hooge
31McCainGiovanna Searey
32McCainPatricia Ann Van Winkle
33McCainRonny Risinger
34McCainFrank Eikenburg
Utah   5 Electors. Population 2000 census: 2,233,169. 596,030 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainStan Lockhart
2McCainEnid Green Mickelsen
3McCainMark Shurtleff
4McCainScott Simpson
5McCainRichard Snelgrove
Vermont   3 Electors. Population 2000 census: 608,827. 219,262 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaClaire Ayer
2ObamaEuan Bear
3ObamaKevin B. Christie
Virginia   13 Electors. Population 2000 census: 7,078,515. 1,959,532 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaChristia V. Rey
2ObamaSandra W. Brandt
3ObamaBetty L. Squire
4ObamaSusan Johnston Rowland
5ObamaMarc L. Finney
6ObamaDorothy S. Blackwell
7ObamaJames Harold Allen Boyd
8ObamaMarian A. Van Landingham
9ObamaRobert Edgar Childress, Jr.
10ObamaRolland D. Winter
11ObamaJanet A. Carver
12ObamaMichael Jon Khandelwal
13ObamaSophie Ann Salley
Washington   11 Electors. Population 2000 census: 5,894,121. 1,750,848 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaJafar Siddiqui
2ObamaMaggie Hanson
3ObamaJane M. Buchanan-Banks
4ObamaPat M. Notter
5ObamaMarcus Riccelli
6ObamaBradford L. Donovan
7ObamaLesley G. Ahmed
8ObamaDi A. Irons
9ObamaCalvin L. Edwards
10ObamaKristine F. Fallstone
11ObamaJohn M. Daniels
West Virginia   5 Electors. Population 2000 census: 1,808,344. 397,466 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainRobert Fish
2McCainZane Lawhorn
3McCainCatherine Sue McKinney
4McCainMary (Marti) Riggall
5McCainTheresa A. Waxman
Wisconsin   10 Electors. Population 2000 census: 5,363,675. 1,677,211 popular votes cast for electors pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1ObamaRay Rivera
2ObamaFred Risser
3ObamaRollie Hicks
4ObamaPolly Williams
5ObamaDian Palmer
6ObamaGordon Hintz
7ObamaChristine Bremer-Muggli
8ObamaDonsia Strong Hill
9ObamaJim Doyle
10ObamaJoe Wineke
Wyoming   3 Electors. Population 2000 census: 493,782. 164,958 popular votes cast for electors pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
1McCainRosa Goolsby
2McCainRon Micheli
3McCainSusan Thomas
 

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