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...eight statewide ballot initiatives, including a proposed income tax rate cut, might be the most exciting races to follow in the ultra-liberal Commonwealth...
...plan is heavily backed by Cellucci, who helped ensure it would be on this year's ballot and has been promoting it around the state...
...want to put this on the ballot every year until it passes," Barkley says...
...scenario assumes electors vote as they have pledged. But some electors have gone their own way. In 1976 a Republican Washington State elector cast a ballot for Ronald Reagan even though Gerald Ford was the G.O.P. nominee. Only a handful of electors have strayed. But in a tie race, it would take only one elector voting for Ralph Nader or his Aunt Edna to throw the whole thing off. To be sure, since electors are chosen by their parties, they're usually loyal. But only a few states require a pledge from electors. And that rule has never been tested...
Could someone not on the ballot win the race? There's a meteor-landing-in-your-backyard chance. If Bush-Cheney or Gore-Lieberman won the race but, say, were caught in some scandal, the electors could vote for someone not on the ballot. President John McCain? Vice President Bill Bradley? The media would love that infinitesimal possibility. The incredible thing about the Electoral College is that it's a possibility...