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DFW

(54,268 posts)
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 04:46 AM Nov 2012

Go ahead. Make Obama's day.

To those Republicans who advocate that their electors boycott the Electoral College vote:

I say--fine. Instead of an overwhelming majority of the electoral votes cast, Obama would receive a UNANIMOUS vote in the Electoral College.

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Go ahead. Make Obama's day. (Original Post) DFW Nov 2012 OP
Beautiful union_maid Nov 2012 #1
Not only that DFW Nov 2012 #2

union_maid

(3,502 posts)
1. Beautiful
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 06:30 AM
Nov 2012

It won't happen because every time they actually examine the Constitution on this they figure out they can't do it. But it would be just fine if they did.

DFW

(54,268 posts)
2. Not only that
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 04:39 PM
Nov 2012

I doubt they want to look that petty, and that's saying something. But Obama would laugh his teacher-of-constitutional-law head off if they tried it, and don't think for a minute that more than a few idiot Republicans out there would seriously like to go through with it.

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