Republicans: Explain how your party is NOT setting a bad precedent which will ultimately doom us?
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Skill and Chance
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« Reply #25 on: January 04, 2021, 01:24:56 PM »
« edited: January 04, 2021, 01:28:19 PM by Skill and Chance »

I am actually concerned about the Dems trying this years down the line and it actually working for them because they have more institutional support.

In any plausible near term EV/PV split scenario, all they have to do is vote to reject Texas.  Then the PV winning Dem has a majority of the "electors appointed."

Things could get really crazy if there is a split congress and one house objects while the other house accepts.  The language of the Electoral Count Act is bizarre.  The current SCOTUS would almost surely rule the electors valid and seat the Republican in this scenario, but if Democrats got to flip Thomas or Alito's seat by that time, Roberts probably dodges the case as a political question, and we end up with the House Speaker as president (more likely to be a Dem in this case, but IDK 2013 was Dem Senate/GOP House).
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« Reply #26 on: January 04, 2021, 10:18:42 PM »

I'm starting to think maybe I shouldn't vote for any GOP candidates until they can get their act together. Of course I think the Democrats also have their problems but I'm starting to think the GOP is quite a bit worse.

In an alternate and better time- line, 70 to 80% of Republicans should have decided this when Trump was their nominee, and certainly after he became president. Kudos to you.
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« Reply #27 on: January 05, 2021, 04:05:23 AM »
« Edited: January 05, 2021, 04:08:40 AM by Come For AOC, Stay For Policy »

I'm starting to think maybe I shouldn't vote for any GOP candidates until they can get their act together. Of course I think the Democrats also have their problems but I'm starting to think the GOP is quite a bit worse.
This is the best Chips post I've read so far. Your hunch is 100% correct.

Regardless of which policies / ideologies each party has and which you agree with more, the GOP is a deeply immoral organization.
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