Newsflash(?): Obama quits
Hot off the wires from the Associated Press:
President-elect Barack Obama says he’s resigning from the Senate, effective Sunday.
. . . The move was expected. Obama won the presidency last week over Republican John McCain.
I like the understatement in that last paragraph. Did he have a choice? Does the Constitution have explicit procedures for this, or could Obama technically have kept his day job, so to speak?
(Just as a guess without looking, I’d imagine that he’d automatically surrender his Senate seat upon taking the oath of office, and this is just to give his replacement a head start. But the alternative possibilities are amusing.)
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