Posted on 10/22/2012 7:11:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“I think if there is a tie the Obama people will bribe or blackmail one Romney elector into voting for Obama.”
Obama and co. are dirty enough to try this, I’m sure, which Gore and co. would not have done. They really are no better than a bunch of crooks this bunch.
The truly frightening part of your scenario, as with everything about this man, is that the media would never even question it. Rather they’d heap praises on the head of the faithless elector.
However, should the above come to pass (God forbid!) it would not end well as faith in our government and media would be completely destroyed for better than 1/2 the populace. I say better than half because there appears to be no doubt Romney will win Independents commandingly.
This is just pathetic.
First of all, the situation in 2000 was not a crisis and was not frightening. The creators of the system anticipated non-decisive Presidential elections (they thought it would be common) and designed a mechanism to deal with that. If the Supreme Court had stayed out of it in 2000, Bush would have been elected President in any legal and constitutional scenario (there were several).
As far as 2012 resulting in a no candidate majority situation: BFD. Again, the Constitutional mechanism for designating a President is more than adequate to deal with it.
The Gore people had a lot of dirtry tricks in 2000, including making a specail effort to disallow votes from soldiers stationed overseas—particularly in Florida where it could help them overcome Bush’s lead in the popular vote. There was talk of trying to flip some of the Bush electors because the plurality in the electoral college was so small, but it may have been from people not officially connected to the Gore campaign.
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