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Six members vow to cast Electoral College votes against Trump
The New York Daily News ^ | November 22, 2016 | Adam Edelman

Posted on 11/22/2016 2:07:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Fake News at its finest, from one of the fakest news sources there is, The New York Daily "News."

The story falsely claims that electors have vowed to oppose Trump, going against the popular vote in their states.

Nope.

Not one of the six "faithless" electors is the least bit faithless, not a single one is a Republican, and not a single one is going against the popular vote in their state, as the original article in Politico makes clear: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/democrats-electoral-college-faithless-trump-231731

Politico, also a fake news site, should ask the Fake Daily News to take down the story that attributes Politico as a "source."

What are we coming to as a country when fake news sources are even faking their own fake sources?

Actually, nothing. Leftwing news sources have always been fake.

21 posted on 11/22/2016 2:21:57 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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Why the 2016 Election Proves America Needs the Electoral College

Jarrett Stepman / @JarrettStepman / November 14, 2016 /

Commentary By
Portrait of Jarrett Stepman

Jarrett Stepman is an editor for The Daily Signal. Send an email to Jarrett.

In the last week since Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in a stunning electoral blowout, there have been calls from many on the left to abolish America’s unique presidential election system.

It still hasn’t been settled whether Trump or Clinton won the popular vote, but many Democrats are upset about the possibility that their candidate may have won more total votes, yet lost the election.

Progressives are taking aim at the Electoral College and want to replace it with a national popular vote. This would both remove the indirect mediation of the electors’ votes, and more damagingly, eliminate the power of states in choosing a president.

You can read my pre-election explanation of how the Electoral College works and why the Founding Fathers created it here. The 2016 presidential election is a perfect illustration of why America needs to keep this institution in place, regardless of whether one supported the winner or the loser in 2016.

The War on the Electoral College

A number of prominent people have called for abolishing the Electoral College, including President Barack Obama’s former attorney general Eric Holder, and former Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. And some of the media’s charges against the Electoral College have been hyperbolic.

One liberal professor called the Electoral College a “peculiar institution” and likened it to defending slavery, others simply labeled it racist, and one Slate writer denounced it as an “instrument of white supremacy—and sexism.”

Read at:

http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/14/how-the-2016-election-proves-america-needs-the-electoral-college/


22 posted on 11/22/2016 2:22:15 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What next, we will find out that the electors from Vermont wont be voting for Trump LOL


23 posted on 11/22/2016 2:22:23 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fake news from the pit.


24 posted on 11/22/2016 2:22:26 PM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Maybe they will vote for Bernie Sanders. We had 16 write-in votes for president in our precinct, almost all of them for Bernie Sanders. As I recall, one of them was for Jesus Christ. They print out with the results tape when we close out the machines.
25 posted on 11/22/2016 2:22:43 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman

We need to post the personals(Legally obtained of course) on the writer of this article.


26 posted on 11/22/2016 2:24:42 PM PST by pburgh01 (Negan all the MSM)
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To: NorthMountain
I am a bit confused here. Is there only one slate of electors per state, or are there a set for each candidate? If only one set, AND the state requires them to vote for the winner of the state popular vote, then only states that went for Trump AND did NOT require electors to follow the wishes of the voters would be a potential threat to Trump. If these guys arew from states that elected clinton, then they are not going to vote for Trump anyway. So how does their threat to not vote for Trump matter at all?

I'm so confused.

27 posted on 11/22/2016 2:24:46 PM PST by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Electors being bought....


28 posted on 11/22/2016 2:25:07 PM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Electors owe loyalty to the state they reside in. All this talk of respecting the federal popular vote is ridiculous. It is the state popular vote that matters.


29 posted on 11/22/2016 2:25:19 PM PST by roostercogburn
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To: Vigilanteman

Ooh... interesting. Bernie. Way to rub it in to Her Heinous.


30 posted on 11/22/2016 2:25:34 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ari-freedom

I understand there will 232 not voting for Trump.


31 posted on 11/22/2016 2:27:35 PM PST by xp38
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The first stage of grief ....

DENIAL.

They still think Trump won’t be President.


32 posted on 11/22/2016 2:28:09 PM PST by TigerClaws
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Your writer of this tripe

Good gawd is this guy a bad sterotype of low-T Jewish, Beta male Cuck or what? I'm ashamed to have Jewish blood when I see a waste of space like this moron.

33 posted on 11/22/2016 2:28:22 PM PST by pburgh01 (Negan all the MSM)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve been waiting for this. Not good.


34 posted on 11/22/2016 2:28:24 PM PST by Gator113 (~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~ LOCK HER UP ~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Baca is a Democrat from Colorado, a state Hillary won. Chiafalo is from Washington state, which Hillary also won.


And having dug a hole of their own making in earning the distrust of the American people, the media requests a backhoe.


35 posted on 11/22/2016 2:28:52 PM PST by Flick Lives (Les Deplorables Triumphant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

#fakenews


36 posted on 11/22/2016 2:29:47 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More propaganda pablum for the uninformed constituencies of Obama, Hillary and encouragement for the Soros hirelings to keep protesting!
Must suck to be them.


37 posted on 11/22/2016 2:30:04 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reminds me of Cruz, bragging about his ability to “poach” delegates.


38 posted on 11/22/2016 2:30:53 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: BigEdLB

Why is this even being reported? These are Clinton electors


The media can’t. stop. lying.


39 posted on 11/22/2016 2:31:25 PM PST by Flick Lives (Les Deplorables Triumphant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So these guys are switching from Hillary to Hillary?


40 posted on 11/22/2016 2:31:33 PM PST by Emergencyawesome
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