At this rate, I'm not sure what will happen to Florida's electors. Gee, I hope that's not possible. I actually don't know what the state would do then. As a teacher in a Middle School, and the school webmaster, we are using this election as a teaching device to explain the Electoral College to our students. My question though is, what do we do to properly educate the American public who just honestly have no clear idea how it works, why it exists, and who have never really had to concern themselves about it.
Many folks think it's a dusty old device that never made a difference.
But, as you know, there have been situations before this one in which one candidate won the popular vote and the other became president because of the Electoral College. I've had many adults say, Why can't we just forget about the Electoral College, just have the popular winner take the White House. The only way to do that is with a constitutional amendment. Such claims are very hard to prove, however. I read that a Florida judge issued a preliminary injunction last night preventing state or county officials from certifying as final the presedential election results.