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Do they not realize that they'd need a constitutional amendment to get rid of the electoral college?
1 posted on 11/22/2016 3:22:47 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Civil war will ensue.


2 posted on 11/22/2016 3:25:07 AM PST by DownInFlames
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Even if these idiots got their constitutional amendment to eliminate the electoral college, They’d STILL lose the election. What makes these people think that they would win a simple majority vote if the candidates were actually campaigning to win it?

Don’t they understand that they’re claiming victory in a game that nobody was playing?


3 posted on 11/22/2016 3:25:35 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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There is so much they don’t realize...


4 posted on 11/22/2016 3:26:13 AM PST by DaughterofEve (Proverbs 3:5-8)
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If these are in states where Hillary won, changing their votes won’t matter. Further, they’d have to get a lot from several states to make this happen.

If for some reason they are successful, they will be responsible for bringing war to the streets of this country.


5 posted on 11/22/2016 3:27:18 AM PST by Gaffer
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D: “You need to accept the results of this election!”

ELECTION

D: “We’re going to overthrow the results of this election!”


7 posted on 11/22/2016 3:30:44 AM PST by struggle (The)
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8 posted on 11/22/2016 3:32:56 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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They should all prove they are serious and vote for someone other than hillary.


11 posted on 11/22/2016 3:45:37 AM PST by pas
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The overwhelming majority of the extra votes that gave Clinton the “popular vote” came from California. SO those morons want one state — really two metroplexes, Los Angeles and San Francisco — to decided our presidential elections? The stupidity of the Left continues to astound.


12 posted on 11/22/2016 3:48:45 AM PST by Avalon Memories (Deplorables of the world, unite!)
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Shine a light on these cockroaches, and they will run away.

Their names are public record, publish who these anarchists are so the American People know who the enemy is,


15 posted on 11/22/2016 3:50:35 AM PST by wrench
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After the Electors vote, the vote is recorded and sent to Congress. Here, the House of Representatives verify the results and make them official.

However, that verification is not a rubber-stamp! The House can reject individual votes.

So this changes nothing.

However, bet the Left-wing media and democrats (same thing) would use it to “prove” how undemocratic the House Republicans are, and beat the drum about “stolen electoral votes” for years to come. That still won’t change the outcome of the election, but will further harm the country and erode the government, which they don’t give a f$%# about as long as they get to be in charge and tell the rest of us what to do.

It’s that simple. They’re not about the will of the people and the method of government we’ve had since 1787, but about being in charge and getting their way.


17 posted on 11/22/2016 3:53:14 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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Yep, good luck convincing three fourths of the state’s to shift the balance of power to a handful of hugely populated states.


18 posted on 11/22/2016 3:53:57 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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The Electoral College is one of the most important provision ever put into the Constitution. It prevents tyranny of the majority, particularly when the majority represents a comparatively small geographical portion of America (cities), and is overly representative of a specific way of life (i.e. urban). Why should people in Manhattan determine what regulations and tax burdens farmers in Iowa are likely to have?

How would these people who advocate doing away with the Electoral College feel about doing away with the Supreme Court, and having all decisions made by popular vote?


19 posted on 11/22/2016 3:56:15 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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Man—Talk about trying to create a news story.


20 posted on 11/22/2016 4:08:09 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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“Sire, the peasants are revolting”

“You’re telling me, they stink on ice”

Mel Brooks as the King of France


23 posted on 11/22/2016 4:19:25 AM PST by HonorInPa
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Well then I guess it’s a good thing more republican electors will actually be voting.


24 posted on 11/22/2016 4:20:38 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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The founders decided that the electors would vote in their own states so that they would be free from undue influence, collusion and bribery which might prevail if they gathered in the capital to vote as a single body. If the democrat electors are trying to influence their colleagues outside of their states they are in conflict with the protections of the constitution. If they are trying to influence them inside their own states they are disregarding their own voters. They should be named and exposed as subversives.


25 posted on 11/22/2016 4:23:57 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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they're unlikely to convince the necessary 37 Republican electors to reject Trump — the number they'd likely need to deny him the presidency and send the final decision to the House of Representatives. And even if they do, the Republican-run House might simply elect Trump anyway.

My problem with all these shenanigans is they demanded the Republicans and Conservative base simply rollover and accept everything they did for the LAST EIGHT YEARS. Forget about just the election and all the fraud they use to get the popular vote...let's really consider how they are acting and have acted!

There is simply no respecting the Rule of Law for these liberal, progressive, democrats and it is time to slap their treasonous butts down.

We need to go out to the 'petition' sight and start a 'petition' to strike back at them. We need to create a whole language (like their Political Correctness Speech) that focusses on the Free Speech of Treason and what it sounds like.

26 posted on 11/22/2016 4:31:29 AM PST by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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"...lobbying their Republican counterparts to reject their oaths.."

Oaths and honor mean nothing to these scumbag bastards.

28 posted on 11/22/2016 4:41:20 AM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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I don’t know. Much of the. Constitution has been eliminated without amendments.


29 posted on 11/22/2016 4:44:11 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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And these jerks were lecturing Trump about accepting the result just a couple weeks ago. The hypocrisy is incredible!

You almost want to say that the left must lack self awareness or a capacity for shame in order to be such hypocrites, but on second thought it’s probably simple arrogance or more precisely self-righteousness. When you’re on the side of the angels you’re not bound by such lowly constraints as being consistent.


33 posted on 11/22/2016 5:05:51 AM PST by Yardstick
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