Posted on 11/09/2016 7:17:27 AM PST by Scythian_Reborn
I am sorry for the vanity but I think this is important and worthy of it's own thread. The media totally stopped counting electoral votes after Trump surpassed 270.
I believe he is truly sitting at 306 right now which is an absolute blowout. Does anybody have the real electoral count? This is important I believe as Trump didn't barely win, he won "Bigly" and I think it should be reported as such. Since win did they ever stop counting? Never that's win, until Trump.
If you loose the popular vote, whether fairly or fouly, it become harder to argue for a mandate.
I still can’t. What is it?
Hillary was +2.5m in CA/DC. Trump only lost the popular vote in one big state and D.C. He won decisively across the other 49.
IL NY and CA are tone deaf, and completely out to lunch in the cesspool.
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The big rat controlled cities in those states control the outcome in elections.
Chicago, NYC, LA, The Bay area and Sacramento for California.
November 8, 2016—Election Day
Registered voters cast their votes for President and Vice President. By doing so, they also help choose the electors who will represent their state in the Electoral College.
Mid-November through December 19, 2016
After the presidential election, the governor of your state prepares seven Certificates of Ascertainment. “As soon as practicable,” after the election results in your state are certified, the governor sends one of the Certificates of Ascertainment to the Archivist.
Certificates of Ascertainment should be sent to the Archivist no later than the meeting of the electors in December. However, federal law sets no penalty for missing the deadline.
The remaining six Certificates of Ascertainment are held for use at the meeting of the Electors in December.
December 13, 2016
States must make final decisions in any controversies over the appointment of their electors at least six days before the meeting of the Electors. This is so their electoral votes will be presumed valid when presented to Congress.
Decisions by states’ courts are conclusive, if decided under laws enacted before Election Day.
December 19, 2016
The Electors meet in their state and vote for President and Vice President on separate ballots. The electors record their votes on six “Certificates of Vote,” which are paired with the six remaining Certificates of Ascertainment.
The electors sign, seal, and certify six sets of electoral votes. A set of electoral votes consists of one Certificate of Ascertainment and one Certificate of Vote. These are distributed immediately as follows:
- one set to the President of the Senate (the Vice President) for the official count of the electoral votes in January;
- two packages to the Secretary of State in the state where the electors met—one is an archival set that becomes part of the public record of the Secretary of State's office and the other is a reserve set that is subject to the call of the President of the Senate to replace missing or incomplete electoral votes;
- two packages to the Archivist—one is an archival set that becomes part of the permanent collection at the National Archives and Records Administration and the other is a reserve set that is subject to the call of the President of the Senate to replace missing or incomplete electoral votes; and
- one set to the presiding judge in the district where the Electors met—this is also a reserve set that is subject to the call of the President of the Senate to replace missing or incomplete electoral votes.
December 28, 2016
Electoral votes (the Certificates of Vote) must be received by the President of the Senate and the Archivist no later than nine days after the meeting of the electors. States face no legal penalty for failure to comply.
If votes are lost or delayed, the Archivist may take extraordinary measures to retrieve duplicate originals.
On or Before January 3, 2017
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January 6, 2017
The Congress meets in joint session to count the electoral votes. Congress may pass a law to change this date.
I noticed. They just wilted.
Those cornflakes on the Left are a real work of art.
“...it become harder to argue for a mandate.”
The Constitution does not require a mandate; only enough electoral votes. Popular vote is not the main concept in determining the outcome; the electoral college is.
However, do you really believe that Trump will abandon his platform and rely on consulting the ones who tried to destroy him? Why should the vanquished party be co-equal to the victorious party?
A “mandate” is always the cry of the losing party.
That, and the fact that the MSM and the GOPe/uni-party have been beating up on him 24/7 since the moment he entered the race.
Looks that way.
NYT map shows NH, MN light blue and undecided.
MI and AZ light red and undecided.
I agree with your analysis—”mandate” is nebulous. At the same time, it is a way of asking cooperation from the winners in the opposition who hold office in the legislative branch.
It is really something when millions of illegal aliens voting along with a hundreds of thousands of manufactured absentee ballots in strategic locations cannot flip an election. The Democrats believed their own polls and didn’t realize that they needed to cheat more to win.
I think New Hampshire is lost both on the Presedential and Senate level, at least without a recount—three of the last four precincts have come in, and the Dems have increasd their narrow lead. The one remaining precinct is in a blue county.
It has not yet been finalized...
last i saw they hadn’t called maine 2 either.
271 is a mandate for a real MAN and a true American!
To quote an infamous sitting president- “I won, you lost, get over it!”
We will be at 306 in the Electoral College vote.
There are significant precincts that had not reported in NH, AZ and Michigan. With practiced efforts to minimize any accomplishments by Trump the media is not showing the certain wins that Trump has in MI and AZ which will give him 306.
“Re-election will be 340 plus.”
Yeah, tell us, just which old worn out POS will the RATs dust off in four years?
I might add that I predicted the EV to within 1%.
Salazar. Racial politics.
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