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We're not voting for Clinton or Trump. We are voting for electors who are pledged to vote for Clinton or Trump. If Clinton succumbs to a debilitating illness at some point between now and the electors being polled, the Democrats can swap her out for anyone else they might want to choose.

They wouldn't have to convince millions of Americans to vote for the new candidate, just a few hundred Democrat faithful who would be easy to threaten, cajole, and/or bribe.

What the Dems would have to do is convince the voters to vote for Hillary not necessarily knowing who would be swapped for her. This is the interesting choice: whether to specify someone as a replacement before or after the election. Either alternative has advantages and disadvantages.

Still, I think any uncertainty, would tend to take some votes away from Hillary. She might get some Dems to get off their couches to make a sympathy vote, but they could lose many more votes to those Bernie voters who would feel totally burned by a system that propped up an unhealthy candidate that couldn't even make it through the summer.

[C210N]

convince the voters to vote for Hillary not necessarily knowing who would be swapped for her. ..

The other aspect to this is the write-in factor.

More than a few 'Rat voters may write-in their POTUS/VPOTUS candidate, knowing that Canky was at or near room temperature.

Those write-in votes would NOT be tied to 'Rat electors.