the conversation over the next month is going to be dominated by the Supreme Court battle and recounts, but at the end of the day faithless electors are a decently common thing and come time for the electors to cast their vote, we could see an upset. If the states still being counted stay the color they are right now, its gonna be 270-268. In 2016, a bunch of Colorado dem electors randomly voted for Colin Powell. Electors are not predictable or reliable enough for that 2-point margin to actually be and ironclad victory.

What happens when 2 never-Trump dipshits vote for the corpse of John McCain in the name of decency, or two holdouts amongst the Dems vote for Bernie? what’s the fallout?

  • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Shit, if it's 270-268, it'd only take one faithless elector to hand it to the state delegation of the house. Silver lining being that maybe, just maybe this would get the Dems to put abolition of the electoral college onto their platform.