Posted on 12/15/2016 6:05:29 AM PST by Dana1960
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican electors have been hounded to abandon Donald Trump, but they appear to be in no mood for an insurrection in the presidential campaign's last voting ritual. This most untraditional of elections is on course to produce a traditional outcome Monday — an Electoral College ticket to the White House for the president-elect.
Whether they like Trump or not, and some surely don't, scores of the Republicans chosen to cast votes in the state-capital meetings told AP they feel bound by history, duty, party loyalty or the law to rubber-stamp their state's results and make him president. Appeals numbering in the tens of thousands — drowning inboxes, ringing cell phones, stuffing home and office mailboxes with actual handwritten letters — have not swayed them.
The Associated Press tried to reach all 538 electors and interviewed more than 330 of them, finding widespread Democratic aggravation with the electoral process but little expectation that the hustle of anti-Trump maneuvering can derail him. For that to happen, Republican-appointed electors would have to stage an unprecedented defection and Democrats would need to buck tradition, too, by peeling away from Hillary Clinton and swinging behind a consensus candidate in sufficient numbers.
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Plus, they may want to get a job some day.
And what would he call the current occupant of the White Hut?
There is one Elector from Dallas TX who is saying he will not vote for Trump. Under Texas law, can they replace him?
translation: Time to deflate the trial balloon, boys. Get ready for Meltdown Monday.
Democrat whining about the election.
After Monday, hopefully reality will settle in with them.
That said, its gonna be a fun four years.
“The electoral voters speak, and they’re not out for a revolt”
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and/or so they want us to think....beware!
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Gunny G @ Planet WTF!!!!!
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It will be fun, but I’m expecting the legacy media to start spinning nonsense about the Jan 6, 2017 electoral vote tabulation sometime after Monday.
"doing your duty" and "Keeping your word" is now
rubber-stamp their state's results
“After Monday, hopefully reality will settle in with them.”
LET them become a fringe, urban party that constantly whines, and is seen as full of batshit crazy people (which, apparently, it is). Please, let’s not stop our enemies from destroying themselves.
After the vote and the house accepting it, the headlines will be:
Will John Roberts swear in Trump:Pressure builds to enforce the emoluments clause.
Napoleon said that you should never interrupt your enemy in the middle of a mistake. Let them keep ranting...
Seems like folks might have suggestions for the CLM logo.
clam - hard shell, slimey foot, gritty interior, needs to be washed thoroughly before using... whatever.
The fact that no alternate candidate is out there making noise puts the kibosh on the Dems plots; see this snippet:
“...The Associated Press tried to reach all 538 electors and interviewed more than 330 of them, finding widespread Democratic aggravation with the electoral process but little expectation that the hustle of anti-Trump maneuvering can derail him. For that to happen, Republican-appointed electors would have to stage an unprecedented defection and Democrats would need to buck tradition, too, by peeling away from Hillary Clinton and swinging behind a consensus candidate in sufficient numbers....”
Good News
“Get ready for Meltdown Monday.”
Extra popcorn purchased, ready for a FReeping good time.
All this whining and hoopla over the EC and its unfairness only further illustrates that liberals really think rural America is not worth anything.
To libs only the opinions of folks in big cities, universities, and news media counts for the election.
It would be a lot less expensive to have a contest simply be a referendum on issues by voters in NY City and Los Angeles.
It would give us a dictatorship, and apparently that is what liberals want. No respect for anyone other than their own lofty [non]ideals.
Typical AssPress.
RUBBER-STAMP??!?
How about "FULFILL THEIR OBLIGATION".
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