McCain "I will win in January"

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[TornadoAlley3]

McCain says he will win in January.

[domenad]

I’m predicting a McCain landslide in which he wins 55 of all 57 states.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Ummm . . isn’t the election in November?

[Lizavetta]

Does he know the election is in November?

[RightWhale]

He will either be sworn in in January, in which case he wins, or he will retire, in which case he wins. Win-win.

[TornadoAlley3]

He will win 56, but he will win in November:)

[Fido969]

Sounds like a trick - we should be voting in NOVEMBER.

[Theodore R.]

Technically, the official electoral vote count is to be announced by Vice President Cheney before the Senate on or about January 6, 2009. Oprah’s Obama seems the clear favorite at this point.

[Red_Devil 232]

Does he have a Lotto ticket?

[TomGuy]

January?

Is there another election in January?

[Poor confused ole guy.]

[Theodore R.]

Apparently, even McPain’s neighboring states, CA, NV, and NM are for Oprah’s Obama too.

[jpl]

For Republicans the vote is in November, Democrats vote in January.

[Nervous Tick]

Maybe he means, “My lawyers will win in January”. He’s out to topple the Bush record of not winning ‘til December!

[exile]

“McCain ‘I will win in January’”

Let’s focus on November, Toughguy.

[RexBeach]

OK.

I’ll see him, and raise him one month!

I’ll win in February! So there!

[proudpapa]

Actually the election is in December:

“Electors meet in their respective state capitals (or in the case of Washington, D.C., within the District) on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, at which time they cast their electoral votes on separate ballots for President and Vice President.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College

[Paladin2]

A couple of months too late.

[dforest]

Maybe McCain knows it will end up in court. I doubt it though, he is kind of looney.

[sweetiepiezer]

This is hugh and series for us.

[Paladin2]

A couple of months too late.

[Always Right]

Ummm . . isn’t the election in November?

That's what GW thought. But with the court cases and recounts, it went well into December.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I’m predicting McCain will lose. The GOP put out a loser candidate.

[Biblebelter]

The RINO relic is becoming the Yogi Berra of politics. And for McCain, the proper Yogism may be “it is getting late early.”

[goldstategop]

Er... in which of the 57 states did John McCain figure out the election is going to be in... January. If so he and Obama agree it won't be for another six months!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[BunnySlippers]

Why not all 57? Sheesh!

[davisfh]

"Does he have a Lotto ticket?"

No, but he's planning a visit to Vegas in early January.

[RockinRight]

No he’s not. Obama is going to get beat a lot harder than he realizes.

[cake_crumb]

Covering face and shaking head here...still he was obviously thinking "inauguration"...but D@MN that sounded stupid.

[buck jarret]

... at canasta?

[CWWren]

Perhaps he intends running for president of another country.

[Niteranger68]

Maybe he already knows how long the Democrat lawsuits will take to play out.

[Non-Sequitur]

McCain says he will win in January.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the next leader of the Free World...

[NewJerseyJoe]

God help us, this RINO doesn’t even know when the election is held.

[Dixie Yooper]

Did Bush win in December or January? McCain could be right about this...

[HawaiianGecko]

I'm sure he screwed up, but technically January 6, 2009 is when the next president 'technically' wins.  On the 1st Monday after the second Wednesday of December the 'electors' of each state get together in their respective states and cast their votes.  These 'electors' can vote for the other guy (known as a faithless elector), it has probably happened before, but I'm not aware of it.  Then the results of the 'electors' are presented to a joint session of congress on January 6th (12th amendment), counted and the results declared by both houses of congress.

[Brett66]

He chooses a conservative for a VP, then retires-we all win.

[HawaiianGecko]

You almost got it... see post #35

[TexasNative2000]

Expect this to lead the MSM coverage for the next three days. "McCain is senile and showing his age!"

Meanwhile, all of the veterans who paid the ultimate sacrfice but still showed up at Obama's rally will be laughing.......

[Jim 0216]

Ummm . . isn’t the election in November?

He's probably counting on the obligatory 3-month DEMOniCRAT legal army to challenge the election results in anyway possible.

[TLI]

McCain "I will win in January"

TLI... "I don't give a rat."

Four years of hearing that "my friend" smart-azz krap and I will be ready for a rubber room.

[Cheburashka]

Technically he's right. Come January in a joint session of Congress Vice President Cheney will open the envelopes from the 51 Electoral College meetings in the 50 states and the District of Columbia and announce who got the largest number of votes for president.

Of course the results will have been predicted ever since the public voted to choose the Electoral College slates back in November, so it will be rather anticlimactic.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

No, there is not one election in November, there are 51 separate elections, one in each state and one in the District of Columbia. Those elections are for electors, not for the president. The electors cast their votes in December and the totals for each candidate for president and vice president are certified by the electors and sent to Washington where they are held until after the new Congress is sworn in in January. Technically, we do not know who will be the president until those certificates are opened and tallied in a joint session of Congress.

If no candidate receivea a majority of the votes (270 electoral votes), the House choses the president on a one-state, one-vote ballot with 26 state votes required. That may happen in January or it may happen in February or in March depending upon the makeup of the individual House delegations.

Technically, McCain is correct, he will be declared the winner in January.

[Jim 0216]

Don’t forget about the DEMOniCRATS legal army waiting in the wings to litigate the election results any way it can.

[tophat9000]

Oh crap! not another stretched out recount mess!

[Reagan79]

I agree. Obama is such a flawed candidate on so many levels. I think it could actually turn ugly for Obama come election night.

Democrats will do really well in Congressional races however, lots of extra racist Democrats will be rushing to the polls to keep Obama out.

[LonePalm]

We vote for Electors in November.

The Electors vote for President and Vice-President in December.

The results are officially announced in January.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[BibChr]

I see.

Already counting on the “Buyer’s Remorse” factor.

[G.Mason]

I guess this means he thinks he will still be sorta / kinda alive in January?

72 year olds hate to stop for traffic lights, because they feel they are wasting their last few minutes.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Lotto?

[fightinJAG]

January?