[Pollster1]

My guess is that Evan McMullin was paid millions of dollars by Team Hillary (or more precisely by an independent PAC that thought no one could prove collusion with the candidate) to split the anti-Hillary vote.

Evan McMullin actually does have a chance of becoming president. If a Trump squeaker win is disrupted by Evan McMullin taking Utah, then the three top vote getters in the Electoral College will be Hillary, Trump, and McMullin. Congress hates Trump, and they fear Hillary. Given their feelings regarding the alternatives, they probably would vote for Evan McMullin as the next president of the United States, in accordance with Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.

[JamesP81]

Evan McMullin actually does have a chance of becoming president. If a Trump squeaker win is disrupted by Evan McMullin taking Utah, then the three top vote getters in the Electoral College will be Hillary, Trump, and McMullin. Congress hates Trump, and they fear Hillary. Given their feelings regarding the alternatives, they probably would vote for Evan McMullin as the next president of the United States, in accordance with Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.

I don't agree. What I think congress would do is 1) the Dems would vote HRC in a straight party vote, 2) the Reps would be split on McMullin and Trump, with Trump getting the most votes, but fewer than HRC. HRC becomes President. Some Republicans would even vote HRC outright.

I could be wrong of course, but I think if the election goes to congress it's almost for sure we get HRC.

[Technocrat]

I just got back from voting for Trump here in crazy UT. Woo Hoo! Hemminahemminahemmina

[x]

Hillary gets the votes from the Democrats. Trump gets most of the Republican votes. Republicans who can't vote for Trump will vote for McMullin. Most of them won't vote for Clinton, but they'll understand that in effect, a vote for McMullin is a vote for Clinton.

I don't see McMullin getting anything like a majority. Congress doesn't hate or fear either candidate so much that they'd go with an unknown who almost nobody voted for. Most likely, the end result is Clinton winning.

The problem is, they vote by state, each state having one vote. There are more states with a majority of Republican representatives than states with a majority of Democrat representatives. If Hillary gets more popular votes and more electoral votes, there'll be a lot of pressure on those Republican reps to go along with Clinton.

[Ancesthntr]

“...they probably would vote for Evan McMullin as the next president of the United States”

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