New idea from anti-Trump electors: Use the electoral college to make a statement(T)

hotair.com ^ | 11/23/2016 | Allahpundit

[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.

[CommerceComet]

That would seem way too sensitive to gerrymandering to me. I like the statewide model much better.

I think that you are greatly over-estimating the effectiveness of gerrymandering. It's not that easy to gerrymander with the myriad to lawsuits that result if the attempt is too obvious.

[scrabblehack]

Closest Hillary states: NH (0.4%), MN (1.5%), NV (2.4%), ME (2.7%), CO (4.9%), VA (5.3%).

[HotHunt]

I believe altering the Electoral College process would require a change in the Constitution. Each state would have a vote. There are more red states than blue.

It'll never happen.

[rktman]

NV
hildabeast-—537,753

DJTrump———511,319

Around 26,000 union votes from vegas put her over.

[arthurus]

They’re gonna get 36 states to pass an Amendment to erase the Electoral College? Many of those states’ populations would rightly understand that their states are thus disenfranchised and cease to have any influence on national government.

[bankwalker]

I agree completely.

It takes the brilliant concept of the electoral college to the next level.

All of the states are free to do this now if they so choose.

[abb]

Hillary ain’t gonna live that long. I give her two years, tops.

[WashingtonSource]

Next time we must take Nevada.

[EDINVA]

If they were to go to Counties to allocate EVs, would you want to see how quickly county lines would change?? Doesn’t make any more sense than giving all states the same # of EV’s. Montana and Wyoming would have as many EVs as NY/CA?

Let’s face it, D’s get the populous counties. The 300/5000 counties HRC carried are populated by half the country. Unless we were to go to an absolute, fraud-proof popular vote, the current EV system is the best.

[Gil4]

That would make the Rats work harder on gerrymandering and the Rat judges come up with more and more idiotic excuses to overturn redistricting when R’s are in power.

[rktman]

Hmmm. Each state gets the same amount of EC votes. Like 2 per state or 5 or 1. None of this is going to happen any time soon regardless of what the petitions signers want.