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Cheney Officially Announces Obama Winner of 2008 Election
January 08, 2009 3:48 PM
ABC News' Dean Norland reports: Members of the Senate marched to the other side of the Capitol just before 1 p.m. to meet in a joint session in the House chamber with their House colleagues to witness the quadrennial counting of the electoral votes.
The procession of senators was preceded by youthful Senate pages. Four of them carried two highly polished wooden boxes that contained the actual electoral vote certificates from each state.
Vice President Dick Cheney, acting in his capacity of as president of the Senate, presided as clerks opened the sealed certificates.
Cheney then handed them state by state in alphabetical order to one of four tellers, two members of the House and two members of the Senate, who announced the results.
After the declaration and counting was over, Cheney proclaimed to the cheering chamber what the world has known since Nov. 4, that Barack Obama and Joseph Biden had been elected the next president and vice president of the United States.
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I hear silence in the room!
Posted by: D. | Jan 8, 2009 4:54:30 PM
It was better that he was handling electoral vote certificates today rather than a rifle with his hunting buddies. I'm sure he enjoyed all that royal pomp and circumstance, his face may have even cracked a little bit with a lopsided smile.
Posted by: kat | Jan 8, 2009 5:05:53 PM
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