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GOP Elector Threatens To Vote Against Bush

HeadlineSep 09, 2004

In West Virginia, one of the state’s five Republican electors is * threatening to vote against President Bush in the Electoral College* if the president carries the state’s popular vote. Richie Robb, who is the mayor of South Charleston, said he would do so to protest what he believes are misguided policies of the current administration. He said, “I know that among some in my own party, what I’m discussing would be considered treasonous. But I’m not going to cheerlead us down the primrose path when I know we’re being led in the wrong direction.”

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