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Has the requirement that the majority of states bind their electors to vote the way of the state majority of voters, under penalty of law, ever been challenged in court? Just curious.

If Trump had won the popular vote, but Hillary won the electorial vote, we would NOT be having this conversation about the pluses or minuses of the EC! Democrats and the media would be protecting the EC at all costs, and publicly laughing their behinds off at the Republicans. If you believe different, you live in another universe. It will be all over later today.

bblhd672 wrote: There's another name for northerners who come to the South and act like they know what's best for us...carpetbagger!

A lot of New York bashing going on.

I don't like what this elector is planning to do, but blaming where they were born or raised is a red herring IMHO. I'm a native New Yorker, a staunch conservative, and have been voting since 1964, and I have never voted for a Democrat. I've lived and worked in Texas for 28 years.

On a factual historical note, 55 men from "Yankee" states died defending the Alamo (nearly 1/3 of the total). Only 11 native Texians died at the Alamo. The rest were outsiders from other states and foreign countries. None of the Presidents of the Republic of Texas were native Texans. Did they not think they were doing what was best for Texas? Were they "unscrupulous opportunist" carpetbaggers too?

Texas has been growing liberal democrats of its own for a long time, with many born and raised right here.