Will Romney Take the Campaign to the Electoral College ?

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Donald Trump is outraged and thinks the election is a sham. But it is not over yet. The electoral college has not voted. Can Donald Trump convince the Obama collegiates that they should defect and vote for Romney? Remember heaven is hearing the cries of the poor aborted babies and that alone justifies going against the will of the people. But no Obama collegiate is going to defect unless Romney promises universal health care, more welfare ,guaranteed good paying jobs, and key cabinet positions for all those liberal democrats.

He needs to go away. Quite honestly, he was never that good of a candidate to begin with.

The Electoral College holds it's votes on "the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December after the presidential election", which makes it December 17, 2012.

A faithless elector is one who casts an electoral vote for someone other than the person pledged or does not vote for any person. 24 states have laws to punish faithless electors. In 1952, the constitutionality of state pledge laws was brought before the Supreme Court in Ray v. Blair, 343 U.S. 214 (1952). The Court ruled in favor of state laws requiring electors to pledge to vote for the winning candidate, as well as removing electors who refuse to pledge. As stated in the ruling, electors are acting as a functionary of the state, not the federal government. Therefore, states have the right to govern electors. The constitutionality of state laws punishing electors for actually casting a faithless vote, rather than refusing to pledge, has never been decided by the Supreme Court. While many only punish a faithless elector after-the-fact, states like Michigan also specify that the faithless elector's vote be voided.

As electoral slates are typically chosen by the political party or the party's presidential nominee, electors usually have high loyalty to the party and its candidate: a faithless elector runs a greater risk of party censure than criminal charges.

Thus, it is unlikely that any member of the Electoral College will risk censure, fines, and/or imprisonment to put Mr. Romney in the White House.

Mr. Obama's job is secure for another 4 years, no matter what Donald Trump may say.

No, he will not and it wouldn't make a difference if he did.,

Trump is just a troll and looking for attention

an IRL Stephen Colbert

Trump says s**t like this all the time. Conservatives keep Donald Trump around for moments like this when they want to kick and scream, but don't want to look like crybabies. So they send out Trump to get the anger and immaturity out of the party's system, knowing full well that no one takes the man seriously.

Besides, Gov. Romney knows better than to try something this foolish. First of all, it's an unwritten rule of political decorum that a presidential electorate representative casts the vote he was expected to cast. Second of all, it convincing 50+ electors to defect is an impossible task given the nature of the election and the fact that Romney lost the popular vote. (Albeit not by much.) Finally, Romney has already publicly conceded the election. Any action like that now would not only look desperate, but also horribly unpresidential.

Pay attention now. The voters of the electoral college are required by law (in most states) to vote according to their prior pledge.

Democrat electors are required to vote for the Democrat candidate elect.

There is nothing the Romney can do about it.

ruveyn

There is nothing in the constitution that requires an electorate to honor his pledge. The electoral college was set up as an additional check and balance against mob rule.

But if an electorate elects a candidate that is not pro-life he will have to answer to God.