Posted on 12/18/2016 4:51:32 AM PST by Be Careful
WASHINGTON On Monday, 538 people will meet to determine who will be the next president.
These meetings of the Electoral College, convened in every state and the District of Columbia just shy of six weeks after Election Day, have long been little more than a formality.
But the victory of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who lost the popular vote but is projected to win the most electoral votes, has thrust the Electoral College into the spotlight once more. The conclusion of American intelligence agencies that Russia tried to intervene in the election to harm Hillary Clintons campaign has only intensified the focus in recent days.
President Obama on Friday described the Electoral College originally a compromise between those who wanted Congress to choose the president and those who favored a popular vote as a vestige. As electors gather in state capitols across the country, here is a rundown of what comes next.
Who are the electors? In short, the electors are people chosen by their state political parties to cast votes for president and vice president. Electors can be state party leaders or elected officials; sometimes they are individuals with a personal connection to a presidential candidate. Bill Clinton, for instance, is a New York elector this year.
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Read my lips...this is manufactured drama.
Gotta like the way they act like it's still in doubt.
Throughout my life, and even during Bush/Gore, the meeting of the Electoral College and the casting of their votes was an afterthought. A slam dunk. A pro forma exercise that gave a few people a few minutes in the sun of officialdom.
News coverage was of the oh-by-the-way-the-sun-rose-in-the-East, smart aleck variety: ‘XYZ is officially president elect....’
It goes without saying that the left thinks they can, should, and never will lose but their last-gasp behavior has been truly appalling as they, including the Obamas, foul the nest on their way out. These EC high jinks will probably have the opposite of the intended effect ie the states that lack laws binding electors to the vote total will pass them.
It also proves that there is no public office or assembly, from the local school board on up, that the left will not try to corrupt. Hillary lost, thank God, but the Clintons’ real legacy is the automatic attempt to subvert the law by ignoring it and daring someone to stop them. This mentality has seeped into every federal agency and many state and local offices.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
It also goes without saying that hypocrisy continues to be their watchword. They are STILL banging on about the national popular vote - a metric that has no value, no effect, and no reward. But the popular vote within each state IS important and meaningful yet they conveniently forget this.
Agree 100%. Excellent post.
Author, Ed Klein just on Fox News stating that Obama is forming a ‘Shawdow Government’, in Washington DC to subvert the Trump Presidency.
Charlie Spiering 25 May 2016
After President Obama leaves the White House, his family has plans to move to a $5 million mansion in Washington D.C.
According to Politicos Mike Allen, Obama will lease the mansion from former Bill Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart and Giovanna Gray.
The home was sold in 2014 for $5,295,000 and has 9 beds and 8.5 bathrooms, according to the McFadden group. It has 8,200 square feet and was built in 1928.
Getting paid big bucks to undermine the government begins to look like sedition to me.
“Trump wins or faithless electors have started a new civil war.”
That’s a fact.
“Trump wins or faithless electors have started a new civil war.”
That’s a fact.
Just a part of the old “super” system.
O he get da chit beat out.
Learning new stuff is always fun and important. I spend hours wiki surfing (yes...I know the dangers)...mostly about European history (I love the 11th-17th centuries) of kings, kingdoms, dukes and earls....wars and such. I also like reading about ancient,,China. Fascinating stuff. Each one of those guys could have a docudrama made about them. Lol
Good for you.
Here is a book that talks about that...and many other things still relevant today over 2,000 years from when it was first written:
Key takeaways:
1. start when you are young
2. moderation in all things
3. grow your own grapes and veggies
4. enjoy the your company
5. experience and learn new things.
Has PRyno come out and stated that he is not bought and paid for by H->?
The polls clearly showed nillary won..until she lost.
This is no different ..whatever perception that nillary has even a speck of am chance is crapola.
But it will serve to get The radical nut bars worked up. And in their pea brains it will justify destroying more cities and killing more people.
“Heres what to expect in a nutshell: screaming, gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair on the part of democrats, who willl complain that it was all so unfair and Valdimir Putin elected Trump.”........
There is going to be a lot of wet diapers, Kleenex and safe rooms needed as well. The thumb sucker snowflakes will be crying in the streets when Trump kicks odumbo off the throne and tells him to get his damn feet off our desk.
I love how Trump is ‘tenderizing Ryan with a meat hammer’ in public....over and over and over.....especially in Wisconsin....when Ryan is on stage with Trump.....
I am not worried so much about the libs.
I am worried about the McConnell crowd....slithering snakes hiding under rocks, like they have been all along.
I think that this is where the real peril lies.
I think that we should re-name Trumps Twitter account and call it ‘The Flashlight’
THe victor lost CALIFORNIA. The rest of the popular vote he won.
If SorozNazi and his islamonazi co-conspirators even imagine the American people will accept their forcing or bribing the EC to foist another illegal “president” after they shoved Hussein down our throats for eight years of Destruction Derby against USA , they have another thing coming. It won’t happen. Then the traitors and saboutours need to be arrested tried and sent to Gitmo for life without parole, or just executed.
If it were a secret vote, bill would not vote for HilLIARy
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