(11-07-2020, 12:42 PM)hazard Wrote: The presidential election isn't done on November 3rd anyway. That's just the election of the electoral college; the actual presidential election will be on 14th of December, and there's no guarantee that the electors will vote in accordance with the voters that send them. Faithless electors as a thing crop up time and time and time again.
It would take quite a number of them doing so given the current numbers, both confirmed and projected. That doesn't say it won't happen... but on the other foot, that would basically ensure that everyone with a head on their shoulders, both inside and outside the country, would consider American "Democracy" a complete and total failure. We're already going to be treated like anything we agree to can be undone literally every four years... having the Electoral College do that would basically have anyone approached by the U.S. (or U.S. companies, given the trade shitshow with China and elsewhere) considering that we can't be trusted to keep word over anything, at best agreements will become incredibly short term with high levels of concessions... at worst we will be left out in the cold as much as a former world power can be.
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