is this true?

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4057/59/

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AN IGNORANT CANADIAN "PUNDIT"

On "Hannity", Mark Steyn opined on the strengths and weaknesses of various 
potential Republican presidential candidates. At the end of his analysis 
he said he would like to see a ticket with Tim Pawlenty and Michele 
Bachman. Maybe it's because he's a Canadian citizen who has never voted in 
a US election, but apparently he's unaware that the US Constitution says 
state presidential electors in the Electoral College may not vote for both 
the presidential and vice presidential candidate if they are both from the 
same state as themselves. In other words, the Electoral College electors 
from Minnesota could not vote for Pawlenty for president and Bachman for 
vice president; they would have to choose to vote for someone not from 
their state for one of them. Obviously, no elector is going to sacrifice 
voting for president of their choice in favor of voting for the vice 
president of their choice, so the result is that it would be possible that 
the president would be a Republican and the vice president a Democrat. For 
this reason, no ticket has ever had both candidates from the same state.

My question is, why would I care for the opinion of a "pundit" who did not 
know this?

Dwight Burdette

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