Posted on 12/01/2016 1:30:16 PM PST by Leaning Right
A teenager from Washington state has become the seventh "faithless elector" to protest Donald Trump's election as president of the United States.
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Our PET (President Elect Trump) so much better than
Their PEC (President Elect Clinton)
Gives me a warm feeling;)
Note to Morons. YOU DO NOT COUNT as a Trump elector if you are from a state that went to Hillary.
“How many Republican electoral votes did Trump win in Washington?”
Exactly! NONE. She’s not a Trump “faithless elector”
But I don’t understand how ANY of these faithless or potentially faithless electors were chosen in the first place??? They’re appointed by the respective political parties within the state. AND, they run as “electors for ....” so not sure why they aren’t held to that.
Fund raising scam. They are busy raising money off this con.
They fund raising off this scam. It a con game for the brain dead like Stein’s “re-count”.
The conceit of the faithless “Clinton” electors is that they can coalesce around a Republican who would be more acceptable to the Republican electors than Donald Trump is, thereby seducing enough of the R electors to abandon Trump to throw the election into the House, where the same dynamic would defeat Trump again. They wouldn’t expect the House to vote Hillary, and - given the dynamic in the House (voting by state) even defeating Trump should be difficult there.It’s kinda hard for me to be entirely critical of the “faithless” elector, because the constitutional design clearly intends that the Electors should be independent.
The Constitution does not so much as suggest that the Electors be popularly elected - let alone that they should be bound to reflect a popular vote in their state. Say nothing about the popular vote in the whole country.
But in that context teenage “faithless electors” are a parody of the intent of the Framers. They should have stipulated that the Electors would all be over the age of 35, just like the POTUS - and for the same reason.
she’s not voting for Hillary either?
“What next — faithless electors from Madagascar?”
Well years back, Obama did make mention of 57 states being in the Union so yeah, faithless electors from Madagascar are not out of the question.
You have received a display of just how stupid the libs in Washington State are. I live up here and they never seem to amaze me at their idiocy. Keystone cops.
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This is designed to stampede the uninformed and unaware. Washington is a blue state already. All electoral votes are the hildabeasts anyway.
guilty.
People of that age are wise enough to vote in a election.
I never tire of pointing this out. There are obviously not 57 states in the Union. But there are 57 member states (nations) in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Quite the coincidence, eh?
The net of all this Dem foolishness is Hillary will end up with even fewer electoral votes. Brilliant!
You can bet there”s a Republican who has been conspiring with them. Probably from Utah.
Yuck....
Always said Trump needed to win by more than 6 EV at a minimum. Even now, I wouldn’t count on all the electors from Utah.
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