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Byron York: With 7 days left, Trump resistance pins last hope on Electoral College
The Washington Examiner ^ | December 12, 2016 | Byron York

Posted on 12/12/2016 6:39:22 AM PST by kevcol

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To: meyer

That clown from Texas,Suprun just exposed himself as a fraud.
For days he said his mind was made up to vote against Trump,now he gloms onto the phony news article in the post and Times that the Russians hacked the election and the idiot jumps right on the phony story and says he is not going to cast a vote for the Kremlin.
This guy is an ass,the story says NOTHING ABOUT THE KRELIN DOING ANY HACKING,your trying to hard Suprun


61 posted on 12/12/2016 11:04:45 AM PST by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: goldstategop
The people of TX voted for Trump.

Well, no, they didn't. They voted for a slate of Electors who pledged to vote for the Republican candidate. This guy is reneging on that pledge, and should be blackballed from the GOP from now on.

But, this is also the base rejection of the "Hillary won the popular vote" meme, because neither Hillary nor Trump, nor any other Presidential candidate won a single vote anywhere. What people were voting on were slates of Electors, and in most States the Electors were decided on 50%+1 margins. Any "popular vote" over 50% is meaningless for any particular State, which is why Hillary's numbers in California are meaningless. She got all 55 CA Electors already.

If anybody is being "disenfranchised" by the current "winner take all" set up, it's folks like the 30% or so GOP voters in CA, who saw 100% of the California Electors go to a single candidate.

62 posted on 12/12/2016 1:25:26 PM PST by LexBaird (Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: LexBaird

Does Texas have a “faithless elector law”?


63 posted on 12/12/2016 1:26:25 PM PST by Reily
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To: Reily

No formal law, but that doesn’t mean the GOP can’t drive him out of any Party function or position for going back on his pledge.


64 posted on 12/12/2016 1:30:13 PM PST by LexBaird (Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: LexBaird

They need one!
Though such laws have never “ constitutionally” validated!


65 posted on 12/12/2016 1:35:55 PM PST by Reily
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