Kerry gets first EV?

[minionofmidas]

I just read back what he's the mayor of... South Charleston. Suburban, in other words, not rural/smalltown. Yeah, his days as a Repub mayor are over.

[CARLHAYDEN]

Here he's already backpedaling.

Shows what one ill considered comment can do to one's political career.

Oh, and BTW, he sought the Republican nomination for Govenor before, and was trounced.

[minionofmidas]

Here he's already backpedaling.

Shows what one ill considered comment can do to one's political career.

Oh, and BTW, he sought the Republican nomination for Govenor before, and was trounced.

...that was before, though...

[Wakie]

It's my understanding that he can't get kicked off.  Sloppy job by WV state Republicans - really sloppy.

The WV Republicans ARE just plain sloppy.  The guy they are running for state attorney general, Hiram Lewis, is a complete buffoon (a friend of mine knew him in college and described him the biggest drunk on campus).  He has almost no legal experience (he's 3 years out of law school w/ the last year being spent in Iraq).  I heard him on CSPAN radio, he indicated he comes from a family of Democrats and became a Republican because "Ronald Reagan reminded me of my grandfather".  He had no other justification.

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A faithless elector has never changed the outcome of an election, and I highly doubt that will happen this time.

Ignoring the stupid technicality in 1800, 1876 is the only election where one elector would have made a difference.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

People should vote their conscience in the voting booth, not in the electoral college.  It's not the role of one person to subvert the will of millions of voters in their state.

Not that this really applies in this situation, but one of the purposes of the Electoral College is to shield the republic from the people making a very bad choice.

[Giant Saguaro]

Interesting scenario, but not likely, I think. One yahoo in West Virginia throwing the election to Kerry. Nah... maybe in an alternate universe... but not this one. I hope not.

Actually, I think this guy would probably abstain if he did anything. Besides, I agree that the most plausible 269-269 scenarios involve Kerry taking WV, so he wouldn't make any difference if that were the case.

[Rococo4]

People should vote their conscience in the voting booth, not in the electoral college.  It's not the role of one person to subvert the will of millions of voters in their state.

Not that this really applies in this situation, but one of the purposes of the Electoral College is to shield the republic from the people making a very bad choice.

We have the exact same maps....except for maine cd-02.   im thinking of changing that vote.  good minds think alike

[zorkpolitics]

If we had a truly investigative Press, someone would be out interviewing all 535 Electors for both Bush and Kerry to see if any one else is thinking of making a protest.  

In fact wouldn't it be nice to have a list of all the electors?  (Does such a list exist?)
Then Move-On.org and all the other 527s could focus on the 1070 electors instead of spending all their time trying to sway 110 million voters!

[A18]

There are 538 if you count DC.

If I was a Libertarian or Green or whatever, I would plant insurgants in the major two parties to hijack the presidency. It would be fun.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Only just noticed this thread...

Robb's being Mayor of South Charleston (Gore and Bush were, IIRC, fairly even in South Charleston) since forever... he's something of a local institution (bitter Republicans are allowed to joke about that ) and he could probably win as an Indie.

As for the WV Republican party... "sloppy" is too nice a word...
Permanent Minority status (about 60% of voters in WV are Democrats) does this to parties...
BTW, in the Gubernatorial Race, Manchin is heading towards a *huge* landslide.