Just this afternoon, an intelligent
woman who was in the Trump corner but was willing to entertain the
idea of Gov. Gary Johnson in the debates, if not in voting for him.
She was willing to listen. Now, after last night's first Presidential
debate (in which Johnson was excluded), she is adamantly for Trump.
She declared that no one should vote for Johnson because it would
sway the electoral to Clinton.
When I told her that Johnson still had
a chance to win the election, she insisted he did not. “Don't you
remember the Bush Gore election, where Gore won the popular vote and
Bush won the Electoral College vote?”
This did not sit right with me, so I
went back to my Government 101 recollections. And figured out that
the major party campaigns want to perpetuate the falsehood that
Governor Gary Johnson, as a third party candidate, cannot win the
electoral vote. If they get everyone out here in reality land to
believe their lies, they don't have to face the truth.
That they could lose.
Okay, here's where the lie of the
Electoral College option falls apart.
There are 50 states and the District of
Columbia. Each state has a set of electors in the Electoral College.
They vote for the candidate who won the popular vote, or the
candidate of the party who wins the popular vote.
And in 29 states plus the District of
Columbia, this is true. They have laws governing this process. In 21
states, they do not. These states can vote for whoever they want, no
matter the popular vote.
Now to be fair, they usually do. But
there are no laws that would restrict them.
But lets get back to those 26 states
plus DC that do have these laws. These states are: Alabama, Alaska,
California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida,
Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi,
Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia,
Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
So let us presume that the outcome of
these states only are a popular vote win for Gary Johnson. Those
states are obligated, under law, to vote for the winner of the
popular vote. I then added up all the Electoral votes of these
states. And do you know what I came up with?
293!
That's right, if Gary Johnson were to
win the popular vote of these states, he would have more than the 270
Electoral votes to win. And that's just winning these 26 states and
DC. ANY combination of different states would win him the election.
Now I know you might keep saying, he
doesn't have a chance of winning these states. A third party
candidate can't win. And this is exactly the thing that Trump,
Clinton, the GOP and the Democrats what you to believe.
But here is an interesting statistic
that comes from The Federalist website
(http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/16/these-numbers-say-a-third-party-can-win-the-presidency/):
“Is
it possible for a third-party candidate to actually win states? In 20
percent of twentieth-century elections, third-party candidates did
just that (Roosevelt in 1912, La Follette in 1924, Thurmond in 1948,
Byrd in 1960, Wallace in 1968). Now, none of them won the right
combination of states to deny other candidates a majority, but that
also happened twice, in 1824 electing John Quincy Adams and in 1876
electing Rutherford B. Hayes.”
So the myth, the fallacy, the outright
LIE by Clinton and Trump and the establishment absolutely falls
apart.
Now that I have busted that myth, I
want you to all consider letting the pollsters and the Commission on
Presidential Debates know that you want Gary Johnson in the next two
debates. Because a third voice is so very much needed.
Especially now that you see the truth
of their lies to you, the voter. They steal your choice. They steal
your voice. They will steal the election from the will of the people.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is
STILL voting for an evil
Don't for AGAINST someone. Vote FOR
someone.
The American people deserve ALL the
information to make their decision. Not just the information they
want you to know.
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