pacino wrote:A second Washington State elector won't vote for Clinton:

One of Washington state’s Democratic presidential electors is vowing not to cast his Electoral College vote for Hillary Clinton — even if she wins the state handily on Election Day. Another elector says he is considering withholding his vote.

“No, no, no on Hillary. Absolutely not. No way,” said Robert Satiacum, a member of Washington’s Puyallup Tribe who had supported Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential nominee.


He had earlier told various media outlets he was wrestling with whether his conscience would allow him to support Clinton and was considering stepping aside for an alternate elector. But on Friday, he sounded firm, even if the election is close.

“I hope it comes down to a swing vote and it’s me,” he said. “Good. She ain’t getting it. Maybe it’ll wake this country up.”

Speaking with The Seattle Times by phone from the site of protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, he said he did not trust Clinton on tribal or environmental issues, and expressed anger that the Obama administration has not halted the project. The Associated Press first reported his decision Friday.

Satiacum, 56, was picked as one of 12 Democratic electors at Washington’s Democratic Party convention this year in Tacoma — a gathering dominated by supporters of Sanders, who won the state’s caucuses in March.

If no presidential candidate were to reach 270 electoral votes, the election would be thrown to the U.S. House of Representatives, which would pick from the top three electoral-college vote-getters.

In a statement last month, the Puyallup Tribal Council distanced itself from Satiacum. While saying the tribe supported the “personal convictions” of Satiacum, the statement noted that as an elector he had pledged to cast his vote for the winner of the state’s popular vote.

I'm sure the House will pick Bernie. Trump will definitely say no to the Pipeline.

Doll Is Mine wrote:The Trump campaign continues to be such a joke. They claim that they knocked on 1.4 million doors in New Hampshire. NH's population is 1.3+ million.

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jerseyhoya wrote: Also he's infinitely more competent than his opponent.

I've no doubt his adroit navigation of immigration policymaking alone will be studied in poli sci classes for generations

also,

“Let’s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s trying to change this country.”

He short circuited under pressure. Not the guy I want in a crisis.

CalvinBall wrote:why does murphy suck? seems to be a left leaning kind of guy

td11 wrote:and just a reminder, republicans nominated Donald #$!&@ Trump for president

pacino wrote:

td11 wrote:and just a reminder, republicans nominated Donald #$!&@ Trump for president

this election is a referendum on Patrick Murphy, and you know it.

td11 wrote:multiple people have said on here that patrick murphy sucks

“Major investment in jobs, debt-free college, immigration reform, criminal justice reform, closing corporate tax loopholes, a public option, paid family leave, raising the minimum wage, expanding Social Security, and confirming Supreme Court Justices who will overturn Citizens United will all be possible with a Democratic Majority,” the letter will say.