Declan Murphy wrote:

> I can't see any reason why it couldn't be done within 48 hours of the
> election, the way it is in every other developed country with a
> democratic system. The only problem might be the sheer number of
> appointees the US system seems to involve.

It smells too much like a coup d'etat or royal succession.  Besides, as 
a representative democracy, there has to be time for the House and 
Senate races to be settled.  My own "home" state has still not declared 
the winner of the US Senate seat contest, yet.  The incumbent 
excrescence, Norm "Smarmy Normy" Coleman, seems to be leading by less 
than one hundred votes out of three million cast.

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CL