Shortly after the 2000 election - which also ended with a qualified Democratic candidate losing the Electoral College to an unqualified, silver spoon idiot who'd unfortunately go on to oversee one of the worst terrorist attack on America's soil that 15 years later, we're still ...read more
Now that the final tally is in and Trump lost the popular vote by almost 3 million, there is a new talking point coalescing among the right to bolster Trump's fragile ego: If you don't count certain liberal states, Trump won the popular vote. Dear god in heaven, I am not making ...read more
The Electoral College has concluded its work and, with only six electors casting ballots against their designated candidates, Donald Trump will be the next president. I'm not a praying man or religious in any way, but God help us all. Of course we shouldn't discount the odds of ...read more
With the electoral college vote nearing, many Americans are holding out a glimmer of hope that enough electors will turn against Trump and cast their votes for another candidate. If Trump does not get the required 270 votes, the election then gets turned over to the House of ...read more
The format of Tucker Carlson's new show on Fox News appears to be as follows: introduce topic of controversy, pull extremely annoying face (see above) for the entire length of the segment and pretend to be genuinely perplexed as to why people don't agree with you. Usually, ...read more
I have been extremely uneasy about weighing in on the movement to get the electoral college to block Trump on December 19th by refusing to vote for him due to a number of reasons. Firstly, the immediate fallout would be spectacular, and Trump supporters would almost certainly ...read more
In 2000, the Electoral College fell under intense scrutiny after Al Gore won the popular vote by 500,000 or so votes but lost the election. One Electoral College elector abstained from voting against the plurality of American citizens but the election still went to Bush (thanks ...read more
If nothing else has driven home exactly how weird this election is, this should do it: RealClearPolitics has found that Texas is an electoral toss up. Texas, the blood-red, deeply conservative bastion of all things far right, is a statistical dead heat between Donald Trump and ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From ThinkProgress: Unlike the plan Priebus backs, the New Republican Plan would not tie electoral votes to congressional districts. Instead, it would award the overwhelming majority of Pennsylvania’s electoral votes proportionally according to ...read more
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore) By Robert Parry Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Old Confederacy, is a fitting place for the neo-Confederates who now control the Republican Party to reinstate a version of the slave-era ...read more
When reality began to disprove Republican ideas, instead of coming up with better ideas, conservatives created their own television news network to broadcast their "side" of reality, as if reality has "sides." When the neoconservative faction of the Republican Party wanted to ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney dueled for the White House on Tuesday in a tight-to-the-finish election shadowed by a weak economy and high unemployment that crimped middle class ...read more
Although the popular vote looks increasingly close, Obama is retaining the edge when it comes to electoral votes - and that is down to his performance in swing states. From the Huffington Post: Ohio remains one of the most critical states in the election. Along with Wisconsin, ...read more
This from Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight: It's no wonder the Romney camp is floundering all over the place. The ridiculous attacks on Obama over the Libya crisis are a sign that Romney is getting increasingly desperate and doesn't know how to mount an effective attack on the ...read more
Image via Wikipedia Mother Jones reports on the GOP's terrifying scheme to snatch the Presidency in 2012 by implementing new rules in the electoral system. The basic premise: Each state gets to determine how its electoral votes are allocated. Currently, 48 states and DC use a ...read more
