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HOW TRUMP WON THE ELECTIION...or did he?
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HOW TRUMP WON THE ELECTIION...or did he? Can u believe that the election is over,Hillary wins the popular vote by 1.5% but not the election. I thought this country was "For the People ,by the People. Right? Wrong! We have this thing called the Electoral College. Put in place by the countries Founding Fathers. The intent was to put in place a system where elections could be pure and free as meant to be. As prescribed in the US Constitution. The concept is this, where the population is denser the electoral votes available increase. Thus more populous states in the Union carry more electoral votes. This years election was so tight in some regions of the country,(In the popular vote), whether the state went red or blue came down to votes in one or two precincts being the deciders. So just who are these very special and powerful people? The electors are selected from slates of electors affiliated with the parties. Each party at their state's conventions decide who their electors will be. They cannot be Senators or Representatives. The electors are often picked for their longtime dedication and or service to the party.Sometime before the general election the parties go thru their processes to select the electors. What happens is each candidate ends up with their own slate of electors in each state who are not bound legally in any way to vote according to the popular vote in that state. But there are many instances where certain states have always voted rep or dem. The Civil War created much of these divides with most of the conservative states being part of the confederacy. Texas for example , will probably never vote blue. There are a handful of states however that throughout their election history have voted differently more than 50% of the time. These are the "on the fence" states or the "swing" states. Thought I lived in a swing state for sure cuz there is a lot of "swinging" going on here in California. Naw, but seriously this is why the candidates spend lots of money and valuable time in these battleground states. He who wins the most swing votes usually wins the prize. But what i found interesting is the Political parties often choose Electors for the slate to recognize their service and dedication to that political party. They may be state elected officials, state party leaders, or people in the state who have a personal or political affiliation with their party's Presidential candidate. (For specific information about how slates of potential Electors are chosen, contact the political parties in each state.) What happens on Election Day. When the voters in each state cast votes for the Presidential candidate of their choice they are voting to select their state's Electors. The potential Electors' names may or may not appear on the ballot below the name of the Presidential candidates, depending on election procedures and ballot formats in each state.The winning Presidential candidate's slate of potential Electors are appointed as the state's Electors—except in Nebraska and Maine, which have proportional distribution of the Electors. In Nebraska and Maine, the state winner receives two Electors and the winner of each congressional district (who may be the same as the overall winner or a different candidate) receives one Elector. This system permits the Electors from Nebraska and Maine to be awarded to more than one candidate. There is no Constitutional provision or Federal law that requires Electors to vote according to the results of the popular vote in their states. Some states, however, require Electors to cast their votes according to the popular vote. These pledges fall into two categories—Electors bound by state law and those bound by pledges to political parties. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the Constitution does not require that Electors be completely free to act as they choose and therefore, political parties may extract pledges from electors to vote for the parties' nominees. Some state laws provide that so-called "faithless Electors" may be subject to fines or may be disqualified for casting an invalid vote and be replaced by a substitute elector. The Supreme Court has not specifically ruled on the question of whether pledges and penalties for failure to vote as pledged may be enforced under the Constitution. No Elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged. Today, it is rare for Electors to disregard the popular vote by casting their electoral vote for someone other than their party's candidate. Electors generally hold a leadership position in their party or were chosen to recognize years of loyal service to the party. Throughout our history as a nation, more than 99 percent of Electors have voted as pledged. Here is the real kicker: THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE HAS NOT CAST A SINGLE VOTE YET AND ARE NOT REQUIRED TO UNTIL DECEMBER 19. SO TECHNICALLY TRUMP HAS NOT WON YET! LASTLY i would like to point out that Gary Johnson Libertarian candidate pulled a resounding 3% of the vote in a few of the crucial swing states. If you take this 3% which can equate to several hundred thousand votes in some cases and add it to Hillary's total she would have beat trump in those tightly contested states and won the election. I also found it interesting that one of the major contributors to the Johnson campaign were billionaire business moguls Koch Brothers[/B]. [B]Is there really a Billionaires club? I would think that to be true! And they are slick and thick as theives! EMPHASIS ON THIEVES!  |
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1/28/2020 1:31 pm |
Your picture had me laughing . Politically, I agree with you. D. Trump is the dumbest idiot we have had as a president. Even the presidential historians rank him in the 40s as to the number of presidents we have. PS. A tasty cock you have
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