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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 7 years, 3 months ago
    To me, coming from Fox News, this is hypocritical. I will not vote it down, but the OT is not well thought out.

    As originally intended, the electors to the Electoral College were chosen by the state legislature, or by the people according to district. Electors ran for office on their own merits. They could vote for anyone for President and Vice President.

    By the mid-1800s, the system had been corrupted to its present situation, with most states mandating that electors must vote for the candidate with the most popular votes. Today, only two states (Maine and Nebraska) adhere to processes aligned with the original intent. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elector....

    Generally, electors are chosen by their parties at state conventions. Those are the people who vote when the Electoral College convenes. The Republican electors from "Red" states and the Democrats from those that went "Blue" goto Washington DC to vote.

    In 1972, Virginia Republican elector Roger Lea McBride - executor of the estate of Rose Lane Wilder, among other credentials - voted for John Hospers, the Libertarian Party candidate, giving the LP its one electoral vote for the almanacs. McBride was the LP candidate in 1976.

    For Fox News to say that the Electoral College must pick the popular winner is for them to deny the validity of a republic and endorse democracy. They never impressed me as being deep thinkers.
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    • Posted by 7 years, 3 months ago
      Mike, you are absolutely correct. The original intent was for the electors to select the best person for the position. the also allowed the runner up to be vicepresident. That didn't work too well (re Arron Burr and a few others).
      My point was they are trying io institure a change to the "Normal" way it is done now without thinking it through or have any real plan of action thus my term "hair brained".
      You analysis was spot on from the historical context.
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      • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 7 years, 3 months ago
        Thanks, MM. I do note that while the majority of states do require electors to obey the popular vote - vox populi vox dei - Texas is not one of those.

        "This process has been normalized to the point the names of the electors appear on the ballot in only eight states: Tennessee, Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and South Dakota." -- Wikipedia.

        PS: Hare-brained - a brain the size of a rabbit's.
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        • Posted by 7 years, 3 months ago
          I used "Hair" deliberately. If you were I New Jersey about 25 years ago you would understand. Girls wanted big Hai and drove people crazy with it. Example: My 18 year old used about 1 can of hair spray a day to keep her hair up and puffed out.
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