Discussion: Maine Elector Says He Plans To Ditch Clinton And Vote For Sanders Instead

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Maine Elector Says He Plans To Ditch Clinton And Vote For Sanders Instead Maine Elector Says He Plans To Ditch Clinton And Vote For Sanders Instead Back to article
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…because 2016 taught us how useful “protest votes” were in a presidential election.

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Does his facebook post say anything about caucuses being inherently vote suppressing and that if Maine had a primary instead, Clinton probably would have won it. No? Well then he can just take his special little valentine vote and pound sand with it.

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He must want his 15 seconds of fame. Idiot.

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Way to go, stupid.

This’ll really show her! Goldman Sachs, Clinton Foundation!!!

Edited to add: this should finally disabuse anyone of the fantasy the EC might do something they should do. My fellow Americans, our fellow Americans are brain-addled morons addicted to stupidity and know nothing of “the greater good.”

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No doubt this sh*thead voted for Gov. LePage twice thinking, well, it’ll get better as time goes on…

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Nah. Eliot Cutler voter.

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Oh for fucks sake. It’s cold in Maine. Snowflakes last longer there than they do in other places.

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Useful idiot sounds appropriate, especially in the full context of this election.

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According to Maine law, Bright should be voting for Hillary Clinton when the state’s electors cast their votes Monday. Instead, he wrote that he planned on casting his vote for Sanders “not out of spite, or malice, or anger, or as an act of civil disobedience,” but rather “to represent thousands of Democratic Maine voters – many less than a third my age – who came into Maine politics for the first time this year because of Bernie Sanders.”

and this is a prime example of why Donald John Trump will be the 45th president in less than two hours.

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ding, ding, ding

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This is just the beginning–and it’s why I’m so set against the electoral college strategy. The anti-democratic forces on the extreme right (i.e., the GOP), and the fake left (their useful idiots) will only grow stronger in this age of disinformation. In practice, this will mean that the GOP will ensure that all electors in battleground states are GOP diehards who will “vote their conscience” in order to overturn an electoral college victory by a future Democratic candidate; and any electors not controlled by the GOP will be put under enormous pressure to do likewise. We are headed for pure chaos.

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and here’s a very important video.

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n a popular vote will solve this?

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A presidential elector from Maine announced Monday that he plans to cast his vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), despite Hillary Clinton winning the state’s popular vote.

Big help. Thanks for nothing, dood.

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I’d like to shank this man in the kidneys. This preening moron and people like him are precisely why Pepe is going to be president. Wouldn’t it be a horrific irony if enough electors vote for Clinton, but she loses by one because some idiot voted his “conscience”?

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BernieBros gotta BernieBro

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“I am not a Clinton elector, I am a Democratic elector. I do not
represent Democrats all over the country, I represent the Democrats in
Maine …"

  1. The Democrats in Maine voted for Hillary Clinton, so you’re not representing them by voting for someone else.

  2. You say you are a Democratic elector, yet you are voting for someone who is not a Democrat, who despite running as a Democrat in the spring disavowed the party in the fall.

Jackass.

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Guy looks like something left in the sediment after the swamp is drained. Who knew there were Duck Dynasty Bernie-Bots?

To a greater extent, I can’t blame Sanders. The man is what he is. But Jesus Christ in a stained bedsheet…

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