Your Vote Counts
Submitted by admin on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 02:24.
Correction: Vote Today Tuesday November 4th, 2008! (This went out late)
Just want to remind everyone to vote for Obama tomorrow November 4th,2008 and don't let anyone stop you from voting. It's your right. Peace.
History proves to us that one vote absolutely does matter," says Lou DiGioia, Executive Director of MATHCOUNTS the national math enrichment program for middle school students. "As people watch the news and read the papers, it's mcts 70-562 easy to get lost in all the numbers having to do with election polls, predictions, the Electoral College and all the rest. Numbers play as vital a role in politics as they do in science, music or any other subject you can name and the most important number is one that one vote we all have the privilege to microsoft 70-270cast."Here are five examples of how one vote really did make a difference in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives:In 1829 in Kentucky, Nicholas Coleman defeated Adam Beatty 2,520 to 2,519. In 1847 in Indiana, George G. Dunn defeated 70-290 exam David M. Dobson 7,455 to 7,454. In 1847 in Virginia, Thomas S. Flournoy defeated his opponent 650 to 649. In 1854 in Illinois, James C. Allen defeated William B. Archer 8,452 to 8,451. In 1882 in Virginia, Robert M. Mayo defeated George T. Garrison 10,505 to 10,504.But what about the U.S. Presidential election? Has one vote ever made a difference in electing someone to our country's highest office?