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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve
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To: chomolungma who wrote (2446)11/17/2000 2:37:33 PM
From: TraderGreg  Read Replies (5) of 6710
 
Another little tidbit as we now seem to be heading closer to guerilla operations.

Bob Beckel, self admitted political hack(at least he admits it) and architect of Walter Mondale's 49 state loss in '984(lol) plans to approach all of Bush's electors, in every GD state that GW won. He will present his case for that elector to ignore his state's decision and switch to Gore. He will cite Gore's nationwide pop vote advantage and the way the FL situation has been handled. Since FL will give Bush a 271 to 267 lead(assuming NM and OR stay the way they are). Beckel will need to get a net gain of 3 electors to switch.

Anticipating your questions, here are some answers from Carnac:

Not all states require electors to remain loyal to the candidate who won that state.

Even in those 24 states(I believe) that have imposed fines, prison sentences, draw and quartering, on "disloyal" electors, no one has ever subjected those state laws to a constitutional test.(No disloyal elector(and there have only been a handful) in US election history has ever altered the final victor) The US Constitution says "1 man, 1 vote"(while FL says 1 woman 25 votes) and makes no requirement that electors vote the way they are "pledged" on the ballot.

BTW, when it was thought that Bush would win the pop vote and possibly lose the electoral vote, their people were planning the exact same strategy, so no one get sanctimonious on me...it's HARDBALL remember.

So unless K-K-K-Katie personally plans on "charming" all 271 of Bush's electors, the Repubs better start getting ready for trench warfare...state by state, elector by elector.

TG

TG
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