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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Tue Dec 20, 2016, 08:36 PM Dec 2016

So...why Colin Powell?

Any explanation of why three of our four unfaithful electors went unfaithfully for HIM?

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So...why Colin Powell? (Original Post) Ken Burch Dec 2016 OP

I suspect in the hope that if enough other electors defected from asshole pangaia Dec 2016 #1

Powell is perceived as Cincinnatus nt Xipe Totec Dec 2016 #2

pangaia

(24,324 posts)

1. I suspect in the hope that if enough other electors defected from asshole

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Tue Dec 20, 2016, 08:39 PM

Dec 2016

to deny him the 270 needed to win, the election would go to the house where they wold pick from the three top elector vote-getters.. perhaps their thought was that if Powell had even just three, that might justify the house voting him as precedente..

Xipe Totec

(43,888 posts)

2. Powell is perceived as Cincinnatus nt

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Tue Dec 20, 2016, 08:44 PM

Dec 2016

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