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Because we're stupid. If we weren't stupid we would just give up our paychecks to those wise worthless Libs and accept that they are our betters.Originally Posted by Dave_L
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It's over, folks. Electoral college has elected Trump as President.
In all of the talk about getting electors to not vote for Trump, there were more defections on the Democrat side.With Hawaii still to vote, Trump had 304 votes and Clinton had 224. It takes 270 Electoral College votes to win the presidency. Texas put Trump over the top, despite two Republican electors casting protest votes.
Democrats turn 'faithless electors' in U.S. Electoral College surprise
At least five Democrats who had been committed to back Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Electoral College cast ballots for other people on Monday, the largest number of "faithless electors" seen in well over a century.
The 538 electors were voting across the country to confirm Republican Donald Trump as the next president. The event is normally a formality but took on extra prominence this year after some Democrats urged electors to revolt and switch to Clinton, who won the national popular vote on Nov. 8.
In the end, it was not Republicans breaking ranks. The Democratic dissidents - four from Washington state and one from Maine - underscored deep divisions within their party and effectively dashed long-shot hopes by some activists that Republicans pledged to Trump might back Clinton.
By late afternoon, no Republican elector was reported to have cast a ballot for anyone other than Trump, although one elector from Texas had written that he planned to do so.
The move by the five was a rare break from the tradition - and in many states a legal requirement - of casting an Electoral College ballot as directed by the outcome of that state's popular election.
It appeared to be the largest number of electors not supporting their party's nominee since 1872, when 63 Democratic electors did not vote for party nominee Horace Greeley, who had died after the election but before the Electoral College convened, according to Fairvote.org. Republican Ulysses S. Grant had won re-election in a landslide.
Last edited by Gman; 12-19-2016 at 19:03.
Liberals never met a slippery slope they didn't grease.
-Me
I wish technology solved people issues. It seems to just reveal them.
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I know about one of those TX turncoats but not the other.
Something tells me a lot of state laws regarding the EC are going to change after this.
In the end, two republican electors turned their votes to Ron Paul, and Gov Kasich, respectively, from Texas. Five electors from other states turned their votes to Bernie Sanders (4) or some injun chick instead of Hillary Clinton.
Final total - Trump 304, Clinton 227, Sanders 4, Ron Paul 1, Gary Kasich 1, some injun chick 1.
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If you click on the article, everyone's name is clearly printed. Then you can just copy and paste instead of making up a name.
So on the one hand, Obama "takes some of the blame" for huge Democratic losses in the Senate, House, governorships, and state legislatures during his reign: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ocratic-losse/
On the other hand, he still doesn't realize or care about why they lost: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...s-targeting-c/
Seriously, rushing out more ill-conceived regulations that are just going to be struck down in a month ... even if he believes his BS, why do this?
The bed-wetter-in-chief is flailing about, trying to do anything to preserve his "legacy".
Oh, he'll have a legacy. It won't be "a good thing" as Martha Stewart likes to say.
Liberals never met a slippery slope they didn't grease.
-Me
I wish technology solved people issues. It seems to just reveal them.
-Also Me
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