The Electoral College met today and voted Donald Trump to be our next President. Good.
Washington state was a bit interesting - from The Seattle Times:
Four Washington state electors break ranks and don’t vote for Clinton
One third of Washington’s 12 Democratic presidential electors went rogue on Monday, breaking pledges to honor the state’s popular vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In acts of symbolic protest, three voted instead for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, while one voted for Faith Spotted Eagle, a Native American elder and activist from South Dakota.
That made Washington the national leader in so-called “faithless electors” on a day when the vast majority of the 538 members of the Electoral College heeded their states’ popular votes as expected, sealing president-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
Colorado also went rogue - from Denver station CBS4
Elector Replaced After Refusing To Vote For Clinton
There was some drama at the state Capitol on Monday afternoon when one elector had to be replaced after refusing to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
That elector was replaced and all nine electors in Colorado voted for Clinton.
And of course, irrelevant Al Gore had to stick his proboscis into the narrative - from The Washington Post:
The electoral college is thwarting our ability to battle global warming
Who (you might ask) is David Brearley?
Brearley plays a critical, and entirely accidental, role in climate change because of his position as the chair of the Committee on Postponed Parts within the Constitutional Convention of 1787. While drafting the U.S. Constitution, the convention left several “sticky questions” to Brearley’s Committee, such as the manner by which U.S. presidents would be elected. Brearley and the Committee were stuck between two difficult choices: election by the U.S. Congress or election by the voting public. The committee opted for a middle ground solution – an electoral college that would vote on behalf of the citizens, but which would be populated based on the number of congressional seats assigned to each State in the Union.
It is this solution, brilliant at the time, that leads us to Brearley’s legacy on climate change. Because over the course of the last 200 plus years, the electoral college, which provides for stronger voting power per person in more rural and less populated states, has elected four U.S. presidents who clearly lost the popular vote (1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016). Two of those elections have occurred during the period in which we have known about the causes and impacts of carbon dioxide emissions and climate change and in both cases, the impacts of those elections have very likely had profound impacts on our actions to address the challenge.
Yawn - don't waste your time reading this clueless idiocy - I got a couple paragraphs into it and started loosing brain cells faster than I like so stopped reading. Talk about grasping at straws.
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