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Another Utah Poll, confirms Johnson’s collapse in the state to single digits. This one has McMuffin in 2nd place, 1 point behind, and Hillary 1 point behind him, 30-29-28-5.

I would still estimate Trump should get at least a third and Clinton under 30%.

McMuffin’s ideal goal is clear and I guess that’s why they chose a Utah Mormon:

1)carry the state,
2)If no one gets 270 it would go to the House, which would have the top 3 to choose from.

Remote but not impossible.

If I understand correctly the House failing to elect by Jan 20th (vote by state, 26 needed) would result in the VP-elect (chosen by the Senate from the top TWO) acting as President until they do, which they could at any time including after the midterms and possible changes to the composition of the House.

According to the online data, people are also googling "how to cast a write-in vote" at the highest level EVER for a presidential election. The number of google searches for that is up 4000% or something since 2012, so we can expect a record number of write-in votes for President in 2016. I imagine most of them won't be legally valid and thus won't get counted.

I googled what would happen if a write-in candidate for president actually won a majority of states. Apparently it would result in a constitutional crisis here, since the electoral college chooses the president but write-in candidates have no electors. Thus, the states won by the write-in candidate wouldn't be able to send anyone to the electoral college assembly in December. fun fun.