My apologies! This is what I get for not actually clicking the links. I thought you were characterizing the Dems' response to the Electoral College, over time, between "fuck this we lost" and "oh wait maybe there's still hope".
As a further point, "the results of this election" involve the entirety of the process - including potential recounts, including the outcome of the electors' vote.
This cuts both ways.
The system that allows for a Presidential election where one candidate wins more votes but loses because of the system of electoral votes... allows for a candidate to win more electoral votes, but lose the RESULTS of that subsequent vote.
Further, the founders of our nation set it up that way on purpose. They could have imposed punishments for faithless electors - they could even have called it treason. They could even have gone so far as to take out the electors in the electoral college entirely, retaining the "Electoral Vote" system but assigning them directly, and having the "Electoral College" merely a gathering of messengers from every state, with each bringing an affidavit certifying the results of the election there, and then verifying that everything was in order.
They didn't do that, and they didn't do it on purpose.
Moreover, the "faithless elector" situation actually came about, as early as 1796 - which is to say the VERY FIRST election not involving George Washington. Then again in 1800, 1808, 1812, 1820, 1828, 1832, 1836, 1872, 1892... point being, if the patriarchs of the nation didn't want this possibility, they had every opportunity to prevent it, and have had for over two centuries.
Now, you may argue that that's not fair. That may be - and it may be more or less fair than the electoral vote system is to begin with. But it IS the system that we have, and this possibility is NOT an unintended side effect - and in fact I would argue that our current President-elect is exactly the sort of situation it was intended for.
Oh man, I love this song.
11. He is literally not Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Yup, Steelheart et al and The Rithmatist are non-Cosmere books. But I agree - Sanderson's works are amazing! :)
Ugh. He's such an asshole. :(
Seriously. I normally play a fair bit of Heroes of the Storm, but this thing has its hooks in me good!



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