Jeff Greenfield: The Faithless-Elector Fantasy Is Fun, but Its Just a Fantasy

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1. this is what i've been saying, in fact we had a far better chance in 2000,

but even that was never going to happen. had the supremes not halted the recount with the horrendous bush v. gore decision, and even if gore had won the recount, the florida legislature would have either picked bush electors anyway or simply not sent anyone at all, declaring the entire election flubbed or too close to call. then the house of representatives would have picked shrub.

same thing this time round. all paths to the presidency go through institutions controlled by partisan republicans, so we democrats don't stand a chance no matter how right we are, no matter how wrong they are.


what we can do is oppose their actual actions and proposals, and build up for 2018 and 2020. if there's a silver lining in this very dark cloud, it's that our chances of winning the house will improve considerably after trump's been on display for a while. if not in 2018, then in 2020.