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Kotya

(235 posts)
6. GOP electors will not only vote for Donald Trump,
Sun Dec 18, 2016, 08:45 AM
Dec 2016

They will do so enthusiastically.

How is it everyone is deluding themselves into thinking that Republican electors are somehow morally troubled about voting for Donald Trump? Rest assured, they're not. The GOP will enter Washington DC early next year the most powerful it has ever been; in control of a majority of statehouses, state legislatures, the senate, the house and the presidency. A vacancy on the Supreme Court and three liberal or swing justices 78 or older.

State electors are partisan Republicans. They don't care that Hillary won the popular vote. They don't care about allegations of Russian funny business, if they believe it at all. They hate Martin Sheen. They can't stand Hotlips Houlihan. They don't even know who the rest of those people in that silly video even are, but they're laughing their asses off at them anyways.

Donald Trump is forming the most conservative cabinet this country has ever seen and everyone one with an (R) after their name, from the President down to the local dog catcher is salivating at the opportunity to undo decades of progressive legislation, and these partisan, vetted Republican electors are looking forward to nothing more than being part of this juggernaut.

Honestly, I'll be surprised if there is more than a single faithless GOP elector so I wouldn't worry too much if this individual unfairly votes for Romney or Kasich over Hillary "but she won the popular vote!!!" Clinton. It's just not going to happen.

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