{"id":1312,"date":"2004-09-17T03:02:51","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T10:02:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-09-17T03:02:51","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T10:02:51","slug":"how-one-elector-could-yet-tilt-us-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/17\/how-one-elector-could-yet-tilt-us-election\/","title":{"rendered":"How One Elector Could Yet Tilt US Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can one person&#8217;s vote make a difference for President?<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia GOP elector Richard Robb says he is ready to prove it can.<\/p>\n<p>As a Republican elector, Robb will get to vote as one of 538 members of the Electoral College in actually deciding who becomes President.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/states\/west-virginia.html\">According to polls<\/a>, West Virginia is currently floating along in the Bush column.  If Bush wins, Robb is not ready to vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>Robb, who has served for the past 28 years as mayor of South Charleston, said he has long had concerns about the administration&#8217;s fiscal policies and the decision to go to war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The neocon <I>New York Sun<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/1654\">has an excellent and surprisingly favorable article on Robb.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Richard Winger of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballot-access.org\">Ballot Access News<\/a> for this item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can one person&#8217;s vote make a difference for President? West Virginia GOP elector Richard Robb says he is ready to prove it can. As a Republican elector, Robb will get to vote as one of 538 members of the Electoral College in actually deciding who becomes President. According to polls, West Virginia is currently floating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}