This isn’t a matter of “how things actually function vs what we were taught.” You’re wondering why the EC didn’t respect the popular vote in 2016 and speaking of it as an entity to be swayed. The EC for this election does not exist yet. It has not been selected.
The degree of “influence” you suggest would require potential sworn electors to already be compromised before being selected. That suggests that you believe Democrats at the state level, who have been chosen as potential electors by the party itself, have been influenced to vote for someone other than their party’s candidate.
Both your questioning of why the EC didn’t follow the popular vote and your implication that Harris would somehow lose party support to such a degree that slates of electors chosen by the Democratic party would cast their votes for a non-Democrat indicate that you don’t completely grasp how the EC works either by design or in practice.
Not knowing something is fine, especially something as convoluted as the EC. But there comes a point when it’s probably best to admit, at least to yourself, that you had only a partial understanding of a process. Otherwise, how can you ever learn?
This isn’t a matter of “how things actually function vs what we were taught.” You’re wondering why the EC didn’t respect the popular vote in 2016 and speaking of it as an entity to be swayed. The EC for this election does not exist yet. It has not been selected.
The degree of “influence” you suggest would require potential sworn electors to already be compromised before being selected. That suggests that you believe Democrats at the state level, who have been chosen as potential electors by the party itself, have been influenced to vote for someone other than their party’s candidate.
Both your questioning of why the EC didn’t follow the popular vote and your implication that Harris would somehow lose party support to such a degree that slates of electors chosen by the Democratic party would cast their votes for a non-Democrat indicate that you don’t completely grasp how the EC works either by design or in practice.
Not knowing something is fine, especially something as convoluted as the EC. But there comes a point when it’s probably best to admit, at least to yourself, that you had only a partial understanding of a process. Otherwise, how can you ever learn?