The way the pledges are constructed there is no way to ever be "released from your pledge" and no circumstance under which the party tells you it's okay to just use your own judgment Both parties specifically tell you if the nominee dies they'll tell you who the new one is
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That's kind of fucked up I guess it matters what the states mean that say you are "required" to take the faithless vote back really mean by "required" What if you just put your hands behind your back and say you're absolutely not changing it
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(It's that whole dorm-room anarchist argument that "all power is ultimately enforced through the barrel of a gun", like are they going to have a bailiff grab your arm and physically make you check the box in order to save American democracy)
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the electoral college is such a deeply fucked institution that if you explain to people in plain terms how it works they don't believe you "what do you MEAN the founders just left a loaded gun lying around here!? they couldn't possible have designed something so facially bad!!"
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@LemieuxLGM says, the key to understand the electoral college is to understand that its sole and single purpose was to make sure george washington was the first president of the united states that is literally it, that's its entire being, no deeper thing anywhere - Show replies
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