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To: Heff
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.


26 posted on 12/01/2016 1:56:13 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
.Gov sends people of that age to go house to house in Fallujah or patrol and sacrifice in the hills of A Sầu Valley.

People of that age are wise enough to vote in a election.

34 posted on 12/01/2016 2:23:48 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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