Racket wrote:
L L wrote:
All of this talk about Republicans not accepting the results and saying the states should make their own calls on who to commit their electoral votes to regardless of how the people of those states voted is comical.
Four years ago, enough Democrat lead states whose people voted for Trump could have made their electors choose Hillary.
Democrats did the same thing. Every week there was an article in Vox or Huff Post pleading with electors to do their constitutional duty and vote against the mad man. People marched in the streets for a solid week after Trump got elected - I remember because I was there, and people chanted the exact same thing : Not My President. Then Russian interference stories and innuendo started rolling out and people began to instantly de-legitimize the election result. Just look at Flagpole - 4 years later and he still thinks Trump actually lost.
It was literally nothing but desperation talk for about a month until the electoral college confirmed Trump and the despair set in. At the end of the day it's just desperation. I know how all those people in the streets feel because we all felt the same 4 years. Maybe we should empathize with them and let them know that it's gonna be alright
Hmmm. I don't remember that sentiment being anywhere near as strong in 2016, but then I didn't (and don't) frequent Vox or HuffPost media outlets. Care to provide some links? Upon a cursory search, I was able to find some articles considering the prospect of faithless electors (against Trump, presumably), but it seemed to be more of a Constitutional exercise, rather than a call to action.
I do know that there were actually a handful of faithless electors that year, the majority of which were supposed to vote for Clinton.