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Texas GOP elector resigns [W: 35]

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poweRob said:
She lost because she lost three of the only handful of states that presidents campaign in. Ohio, Michigan and Pennsyvlania. The vast majority of the rest of the states don't matter with the EC.
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Michigan and Pennsylvania aren't really swing states since Mchigan didn't go for a republican since 1984 and Pennsylvania didn't go for a republican since 1988. The fact is no one expected Trump to win either of those states.
 
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katzgar said:
your post is ignorant, that isnt how it works.
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Ummmmmmmm.....

"Resigning would allow the remaining electors to fill his vacancy with someone who will vote for the president-elect during Texas electors’ Dec. 19 meeting, Sisneros added."

Thats taken straight from the cited article.

You DID read the article...right?
 
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I get the feeling there are going to be some salty mother ****ers in this country come 21 January 2017
 
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Ikari said:
No, that's our system, this is how it was built, this is part of the purpose of the EC. Texas doesn't bind the electoral to the popular vote, and faithless electors are a necessary precaution against popularism. This is partly why the EC exits the way it does, it was purposefully established this was so that the EC isn't bound to the popular vote. The EC almost always goes along the lines of the popular vote in a State, but it doesn't need to and shouldn't be required.

There is a reason the Founders set up the EC like they did. It's not "upending a legal election", the EC is PART of the legal election process.
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Right, but that's a good way to get yourself killed.
 
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Fishking said:
Right, but that's a good way to get yourself killed.
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No faithless elector to date has been killed.
 
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Harshaw said:
A) Hamilton didn't mention anything about "illiteracy."

B) Some late 20th-Century justification for the Electoral College by a minor flunky at the FEC is neither 1) deliberation at the Constitutional Convention, nor 2) argumentation presented in the Federalist Papers.
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I see you want to parse it down to a word. It was about electing someone with intelligence, which includes the ability to read back then especially.

Did the early presidents campaign in all the states? No, they didn't.

Good lord its annoying trying to discuss anything with serial refuters.
 
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Henrin said:
Michigan and Pennsylvania aren't really swing states since Mchigan didn't go for a republican since 1984 and Pennsylvania didn't go for a republican since 1988. The fact is no one expected Trump to win either of those states.
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They are hard fought for states... the ones that are of the very few.
 
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RickJames3000 said:
The entire electoral college is "unethical"... especially if you value democracy.
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Not that the state level it isn't.
 
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