Posted on 04/12/2016 3:08:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
“Sure. But the voters are who are the ones who determine who’s selected for the Electoral College. Not the Party. When the Party decides everything for us, the Uniparty rules the country.”
Amazing. A democrat could win most of the votes but lack the electoral votes. Them the republican house could pick the republican!
“Sure. But the voters are who are the ones who determine who’s selected for the Electoral College. Not the Party. “
Lesson Two for you:
Who selects the Electors?
The process for selecting Electors varies throughout the United States. Generally, the political parties nominate Electors at their State party conventions or by a vote of the party’s central committee in each State. Each candidate will have their own unique slate of potential Electors as a result of this part of the selection process.
Electors are often chosen to recognize service and dedication to their political party. They may be State-elected officials, party leaders, or persons who have a personal or political affiliation with the Presidential candidate.
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/electors.html
And you’d trust that bunch to do it for us?
They’d pick Jeb (or Hillary).
“Your boy Cruz is fronting for the Uniparty, bought and paid for.”
LOL! Cruz was the most despised by the ‘uniparty’ ...
No Legal Requirement
Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
ARIZONA
ARKANSAS
DELAWARE
GEORGIA
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
INDIANA
IOWA
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
LOUISIANA
MINNESOTA
MISSOURI
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
NEW YORK
NORTH DAKOTA
PENNSYLVANIA
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
TEXAS
UTAH
WEST VIRGINIA
Sure, Cruz is their guy while they are trying to wreck Trump..
But they’ll betray him in a Toronto instant once the get Trump out of the way.
Sure as the spring rain brings the little green froggies.
“And you’d trust that bunch to do it for us?”
I take it you are a constitutionalist ...
Twelfth Amendment
The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;—The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice....
“Sure, Cruz is their guy while they are trying to wreck Trump.. But they’ll betray him in a Toronto instant once the get Trump out of the way.”
Don’t blast Cruz for other’s actions ...
I blast Cruz for his slimy, back-stabbing tactics. I used to prefer him but he has shown his cruddy side for all to see.
“I blast Cruz for his slimy, back-stabbing tactics. I used to prefer him but he has shown his cruddy side for all to see.”
LOL! Name one.
But consider that Trump is the master of corruption and personal destruction ...
Exhibit A: his “ground game” snagging delegates the voters chose for Trump.
Exhibit B: his low-life tactics to get Ben Carson out of the race
No conservative resorts to DNC tactics.
“Exhibit A: his “ground game” snagging delegates the voters chose for Trump.”
hmmm. Trump got trumped! Trump failed to put a team together like he said. Trump said he was the master of corruption but failed.
“Exhibit B: his low-life tactics to get Ben Carson out of the race”
hmmm ... Memories .....
A few hours after claiming that Republican rival Ben Carson has an incurable “pathological temper” and comparing it to something else he says is incurable — “child molesting” — Trump escalated the battle, devoting over ten minutes of his rally to attacking Carson’s personal narrative.
“He wrote a book and in the book, he said terrible things about himself,” Trump said of Carson. “He said that he’s pathological and he’s got basically pathological disease ... I don’t want a person that’s got pathological disease.”
“Exhibit A: his “ground game” snagging delegates the voters chose for Trump.”
Trump gets 22% more delegates than the proportional vote. Seems that the system is rigged to give Trump the delegates ...
There are 858 still available delegates
Trump needs 482 delegates or roughly 56%
Cruz needs 692 delegates were 80% of the delegates remaining
None of that excuses Cruz: he has posed to all of us as a fervent Christian but he has been as foul and deceptive as any Democrat.
Trump is Trump - he doesn’t pretend to be anything but himself. Cruz however is a fake. He postured as a true Boy Scout - pure conservative and he has shown himself to be the same (or worse) than any other Karl Rove money-taking, back- stabbing politician (accompanied by spitting sound).
I have thirty SIX years on you. Can you imagine how it looks to those of us who can remember the Truman administration?
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