DrTorch
Proved mach and GTS to be liars
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from the electoral-vote guy.
Quote:Stupidity news revisited: Yesterday I pointed out that one of Kerry's Ohio electors, Rep. Sherrod Brown, is constitutionally ineligible to be an elector because he is a federal officeholder. He resigned yesterday as elector, undoubtedly due to my pointing this out to 650,000 people. Suppose he had stayed on and Kerry won the popular vote and Ohio and the electoral college 270 to 268. If the Republicans had gone to the Supreme Court and gotten Brown declared ineligible and also gotten a ruling saying that Ohio could not replace him with someone the voters had not selected, the score would be Kerry 269, Bush 268. Since Kerry would no longer have the required 270 electoral votes needed to win, the House, controlled by the Republicans, would then choose Bush. We could have had a situation in which Kerry won the popular vote, Kerry won the electoral vote, and Bush became president. I don't think that would have been good for the country.
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Schadenfreude
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<a href='http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1099042315252190.xml' target='_blank'>http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/...42315252190.xml</a>
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GrayBeard
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Ohio...The Florida of 2004!
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