Four Washington state electors break ranks and dont vote for Clinton

the wrong kind. What jerks.

that Sanders didn't win the nomination, I would imagine.

wat


I don't even

JHC.

presidency because of people like that.

they won't vote for her.

Most people thought she'd bury Il Douche, so they felt safe in making those statements
When the reality strikes and their stupid decisions have consequences, people think twice

who made the announcement long ago.

Our state needs to be a lot more careful about who it chooses to be its electors.

and afterwards saying that even if he had the deciding vote he wouldn't vote for her. And the Democratic leadership was brushing it under the rug.

Was that you telling about the meeting? Caucus? (I don't quite understand those. )

So some people voted for him as a Bernie delegate not knowing that he would refuse to support the ultimate nominee. A*hole.

My husband and I are trying to find a balance to keep informed yet keep our mental health. I want to find a way to fight back so I'm trying to educate the people around me, to start with.

nominee, or at least the winning candidate, there's no reason for anybody on the right to give a shit. They're fine with it, really, and you can't get changes to election laws unless they're deemed unconstitutional in this nation if one side is always benefitting from the status quo.

I swear to god if I see one more use of the phrase "liberal tears"...

....and earned. If they think we've seen "liberal tears", there will be a lot more "conservative tears"!

All of us will be suffering thanks to our archaic 'Electoral College', a system that should have been abandoned a hundred years ago. It's just unfathomable that a candidate can win by nearly 3 MILLION VOTES and still lose.

The deplorables will be blaming Pres. Obama for tRump's mess, and they don't know it YET, but they'll be IN that MESS up to their deplorable eyeballs.

Yay.

it was a better ploy than trying to swing Republican electors to Hillary. You'd never get Hillary to 270 that way. The only hope was to keep Trump under 270 and send it to the house, and if that happened, they'd need an alternate to vote for besides Trump. So these Washington electors gave them Powell as an option.

But, it looks like the gambit failed because Trump will get 270 anyway.

You have it in three sentences. No way to swing republican electors to HRC. Only chance was to see their bloc drop below 270 and coax a vote for a more mainstream, responsible choice like Powell.
We did our part in Washington state and tried to show the way toward Bernie during the primary/caucus season. Even so my precinct still came in overwhelmingly 22-1 for HRC in the general.

about not following the will of the state...oh THAT'S right, we *only* see that when it's the majority of Americans trying to keep the KGB out of the WH....THEN it's a fucking crisis.

I'm going into my cave for a while. Time to recharge the battery. Signed, Depleted

I'm not sad per se, because for me this was expected.

I'm not even watching anything related to it. I'm watching my Roku and thankfully the great folks here are keeping me abreast of what's happening. I REFUSE to watch the so-called Liberal media which doesn't exist talk about anything dealing with tRump--who with the help of his bestie boy toy putin--stole the 2016 General Election.

Shows that we're never really into Bernie if they not only fail to vote for Hillary or Bernie, but for a Republican.

If no canidate has 270, then the house picks among the 3 with the highest electoral college votes.

There is no way the house is voting for Clinton. By giving Powell 3 votes he becomes an option, and its possible the house elects him president. (And the idea is powell is a better compromise than trump )

Since trump got more than 270, it really doesnt matter who clinton electors voted for.

Republicans have done nothing but genuflect in front of Trump since the election, we're fortunate to have had 2 not vote for Trump, they are as shocked as we are that he won and are GLEEFULLY lining up for jobs.


Hell, Kasich is probably not rightwing enough for most of those electors, or the House GOP, let alone Powell, who broke ranks to support Obama. Wanted a real chance at this crazy scheme? The half-assed effort we got wasn't good enough, how about this if all 232 Democratic electors had said they were voting for Ted Cruz, that might have tempted 38 Republican electors, maybe the entire Texas delegation. Would you have wanted that? I think I'd honestly rather have fucking Trump than that wingnut Cruz.

I can respect the Bernie elector in Hawaii and the one who voted for the Native American activist, either of which might have been a better candidate than HRC, but voting for a Republican? Even a "moderate" like Colin Powell? When every rational person knew there was NO chance of this working. No.

Sorry if I sound testy just, ugh. This "real" election is just as painful as the one in November. To see our electoral count go even lower, for nothing, just makes me...... I once entertained the thought that Trump could actually end up with ZERO electoral votes. I thought common decency might be stronger than partisanship, or self interested partisanship might lead down ballot Republicans to cut bait totally. But no they all voted for him, and he had fucking coatails in the Missouri Senate race.