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Eastern Iowa mayor casts ballot for Obama as national elector

December 18, 2012 By Matt Kelley

Mayor Bill Gluba

Davenport Mayor Bill Gluba changed hats last night and voted in the Electoral College.

The Iowa elector from the state’s 2nd congressional district was among 538 electors nationwide to cast the official ballots for president and vice president.

Gluba called it “a great honor” to vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden at the state capitol in Des Moines.

He says the founding fathers knew what they were doing when they created the electoral college for the United States, which is not a “pure” democracy.

“We’re a federalist system, we’re a representative democracy, a republic, so each state has some clout and as it turns out, in most cases, it ends up being whoever gets the majority of votes takes it all anyway,” Gluba says. “We’re the oldest democracy the world’s ever seen, 237 years approximately. It’s worked pretty well and I don’t know if it needs to be tinkered with too much.”

Gluba says he first met the president in former Illinois Congressman Phil Hare’s basement, when Obama was running for the U-S Senate.

In 2008, the mayor also helped develop the Obama campaign strategy for Iowa.

As an elector, Gluba will receive two tickets to the inauguration next month. He says having a reserved seat will be a lot better than standing far in the back, like he did four years ago.

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