Posted on 11/24/2016 9:22:56 AM PST by rktman
They’ve all but given up on flipping the 37 electoral votes they’d need to deny Trump 270 (not quite all, I guess, but most) yet they can still exploit the process to do some PR for changing the way the system works in the future. One thing that occurs to me: If a few more Democrats and a few less Republicans had turned out in Florida on Election Day, Hillary might have won the state while going on to lose the presidency very narrowly to Trump, 277/261. In that scenario, all you would have needed to throw the election to the House is eight red-state “faithless electors” to withhold their votes from Trump. If nine red-staters shifted their votes from Trump to Clinton, Hillary would have won the presidency outright and the country would have been paralyzed in a major national crisis. Everyone, pro-Trump or anti, should be glad that he piled up a comfortable electoral college win once he crossed 270, as the outcome easily could have been much tighter. (Remember, the winning trifecta of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, which accounted for 46 electoral votes, was decided by a total of just 107,000 popular votes.) You would think such a miserable election would naturally end in the most contentious way possible, but we ended up being spared one last bitterly controversial act.
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I believe the US has about 5000 counties.
I believe Hillary won 300 of them.
Funny how these articles never mention the places Hillary barely won. NH, VA, etc.
Why is that?
Don’t want to hurt her feelings? Just a guess.
They might get one or two. Maybe this is a good pacifier for them to suck onwhile the adults get things done.
Instead of “electoral votes” call them “electoral points”. Whoever gets the most points wins, end of story.
I don't know... Maybe in four years Hillary Clinton will shoot Steve Bannon!
-PJ
Why didn’t they think of this in 2000, which Bush won (with FL) 271-267? Then they would have needed just three electoral college reversals to overturn the result.
If they violate the rules regarding who they vote for, the House can nullify their votes.
If the House nullifies their votes, then the number of EV’s can be reduced accordingly. Thus, if the House nullified 5 delegates, then the number needed to win would be 265, not 270. That is something the rebels apparently didn’t realize.
“They should do it by county —
I believe the US has about 5000 counties.
I believe Hillary won 300 of them.”
There are 3141 counties and Trump claims to have won 3084. Yeah lets decide by counties won :-)
The Maine/Nebraska hybrid model -- where the winner of each Congressional district gets one electoral vote and the winner of the overall state gets the two electoral votes that correspond to the two Senate seats -- is probably the best model I've seen.
Spots of blue, floating in a sea of red.
The leftists may want to think twice (like they can think critically) about what the odyssey to hell that they intend to embark upon.
After all, he gave her a popular vote total1. Perhaps she failed to specify state by state.
LOL Hillary’s America is really really small county-wise.
Yep. Award electors by counties.
The only 2 EVers I know of that won’t vote for their candidate are dems.
HotAir’s Allahpundit is creaming his shorts again.
That would seem way too sensitive to gerrymandering to me. I like the statewide model much better.
Valid point, but the current statewide model has the same basic flaw as a national popular vote — the dominance of large metro areas in the election.
Was it close in either Nevada or Colorado?
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