Electors are wavering in their support for Donald Trump

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http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-new ... heir-vote/

Look how upset democrats are when the Same thing was proposed before the election. And now they propose the very thing they were upset about happening. The comments are full of people saying they can't do that. So it's ok have republicans ignore their voters but not democrats to do it.

Liberals are so hypocritical and sore losers.

Also if you got what you wanted it'd go to the republican controlled house to decide the president.

I think in order for it to happen there would have to be a specific reason for it such as suspected voter fraud or something other than people just not liking him or his policies.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/12897066

This explains it and has a link to info about faithless electors and the states with Republican voter majorities in the populous. You would still see a Republican as president just not one who is so outspokenly against fundamental freedoms. What Trump has said is more troubling than what Ted Cruz said, for instance. Trump has denounced freedom of the press pretty much. That is pretty scary for a president. Thing is, I've seen tea party candidates less radical than Trump lose local elections here.

Pretty sure Pennsylvania and Florida are good places to start. If you aren't in states that chose Trump this election, your elector votes already went to HRC.

Here we go again. This is the sort of crap that is currently going on with Brexit.

Critical thinking is great until you apply it in a way that makes my views look obviously stupid.
Free speech is great until you say something that hurts my feelings.
A democratic system is great until you elect someone I don't like.

So I'm gonna throw wrenches in or subvert all three when it pleases me. The butthurt peons of the establishment ladies and gentlemen.

What was it JFK said? Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

...I am completely against any electoral nullification (I believe that is the proper word for it) , electors not voting for Trump , AspieUtah summed it up nicely ~ But , as far as " the will of the PEOPLE " , doesn't Hillary having won the popular vote put a funny spin on that phrase ?
It seems to me like the " flyover " states which whine about how victimized they are could be argued as having (Yes , legally .) VICTIMIZED the " evil , coastal " states (Taking into account of course that plenty of " flyover " voted for Hillary and plenty of " evil , coastal " voted for Trump !)

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Give it up, Trump won fair and square. You people are the enemies of democracy just like I said, it's only "democracy" to you if it's one party rule and you get your way all the time and all others are ostracized from society.

Perhaps this anger should be directed at the most flawed presidential nominee in the history of the US Hillary Clinton and the corrupt DNC and complicit media who rigged their primary, take a long look in the mirror before you start foaming out the mouth at others.

What leftists lack today is empathy, they might claim they have empathy for their selected identity groups(inherently divisive and racist) but they really don't and have zero tolerance for dissent or even discussion. It's a totalitarian world view, they never tried to understand or appeal to Trump voters, they called them deplorable and stupid and every nasty thing in the book. Hillary ran on a message of hate and fear, these people stuck inside their own bubble took it hook line and sinker and are now violently rioting. They're totally self-defeating, these dodos who like to roleplay as 60s radicals have a very poor understanding of history because it was the extremists who ruined the civil rights movement and generated an epic backlash. People like Martin Luther King Jr is who people should look up too, not terrorists like Bill Ayers and whoever else they want to glorify. So keep rioting, it'll make it just that much easier for Trump in 4 years.

It's not like any Democrat will get the job as president so I dunno why Republicans are so fierce about this. Questioning a President Elect's mental ability to take office is allowed and I encourage those with any doubt follow their intuition and fight for their rights now while they still can.

Sly, that article I posted says electors would choose another Republican instead of Trump.

As a mentally disabled person, I was very scared and upset (still am) about this bigot being president. I would have thought more people here would be upset about it but I don't think this is going to do any good.

He may be a dangerous man but he may just be full of hot air. As much as it almost kills me to accept this, what else can we do? We have to live life as best as we can and if he crashes and burns, we can laugh at him and hope that the country does not go down with him.

I always believe in striving harder to succeed to beat my enemies and since Donald Trump is an enemy to me, I'm only going to fight harder.

What's really weird about this is the Republican establishment rejected Trump at first partly because of his bigotry, now he can do no wrong. Why suddenly the change? What will stimulate the economy more than anything he does is people spending money but hey guys you can spend money anytime. Trump doesn't have to be President to do that. Spending always helps economies. You all will spend the money while Trump takes all the credit but please don't go into massive credit debt just because you are excited about him or it will be 2007 all over again.

Ana,

If they did this, if the electoral college subverted the outcome of the vote, it would set a precedent for it happening again much more easily. Right now you might think it's justified (although who would they vote for instead....Hillary!?) but once it's happened successfully one time it would be yet another pattern of our sovereignty getting overthrown because they'd be able to do this with pretty much any popularly elected president elect who the globalists or whoever has the money in Washington doesn't want to see in power.

If you're really worried about Trump, if anyone really is, take Sam Harris's advice and speak as much as you can at making sure he's wrapped in competent advisers and people who will keep our country safe from his inexperience and personal oddities. Also no one had the will to limit executive power under Bush, no one had the will to do it under Obama; do you think we might have the will to get it done now?