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How Conservative Candidate Evan McMullin Can Win
National Review ^ | August 11, 2016 | Josh Gelenter

Posted on 08/13/2016 8:06:58 AM PDT by C19fan

It’s very, very unlikely — but new conservative independent candidate for president Evan McMullin can win. But only if he runs only in Utah. If, among swing states, Trump wins Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, he’ll have 273 electoral votes, three more than the 270 he needs to win. If he wins Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and Iowa, he’ll have 272 electoral votes. Likewise if he wins Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and Nevada. If he wins Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and New Hampshire, he’ll have 270 exactly. If he wins Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Iowa, and New Hampshire (the states political prognosticator Nate Silver had him leading in before the Khizr Khan dust-up), he and Hillary will be tied, 269 each. There are a few other scenarios along these lines, wherein a) Hillary has too few votes to win outright, and b) Trump ends up with fewer than 275 electoral votes. These are the most likely ones.

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: 2016swingstates; antitrump; mcmullin; nevertrump; thirdparty
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To: Beernoser

Relax. Polls are for entertainment value.


41 posted on 08/13/2016 10:33:48 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Common Sense, Trump and Pence. More of the same, Clinton and Kaine.)
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To: C19fan

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/oops-latest-nevertrump-candidate-fake-resume-full-inaccuracies-distortions-lies/


42 posted on 08/13/2016 10:36:23 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: C19fan

The National Review should merge with the Huffington Post. ——birds of a feather-— as the saying goes.


43 posted on 08/13/2016 10:38:38 AM PDT by texican01
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To: EQAndyBuzz

And the poll could be as biased as can be, but Trump still shouldn’t be running 5-10 % behind the other Republicans. If it’s biased and packed with Democrats, it’s equally biased for the senate candidate too.


44 posted on 08/13/2016 10:39:36 AM PDT by Beernoser
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To: LS
"I saw a George Carlin comedy sketch about “the system” where he was saying we’re all just sheeple and we’re all kept in line by the government and they don’t want us to be educated."

A review of the "progressives'" absolute takeover of every entity of what is called the American "education system," from the federal, state and local government bureaucracies, including teacher training institutions, "certification" process, the teachers' unions, with their legislative agenda, state DPI and legislative leaders, and now control of the curriculum publishing companies, etc., etc.,--all of these things lead one to believe that Carlin's early observation was spot on.

As a matter of fact, to paraphrase the "Nation at Risk" report published decades ago, an enemy of America could not have devised a better plan for harming us than these forces described above have inflicted upon the nation's youth over several decades now, "dumbing them down," keeping them unknowledgeable, uneducated and vulnerable, and they constitute much of the group known as "the millennials" today.

"It is necessary, then, in order to seize authority in a republic and imprint an evil form upon it, to find that the social fabric has broken down over time, and that little by little and from generation to generation, it has been thrown into disorder; this will come about by necessity, when it is not often renewed by good examples or by new laws to bring it back to its beginnings." Niccolo Machiavelli circa 1519, Discourses on Livy.

45 posted on 08/13/2016 10:48:24 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I believe him to be a petulant child


46 posted on 08/13/2016 11:01:05 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: lewislynn

well there is that....he is after all a petulant child


47 posted on 08/13/2016 11:01:33 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: C19fan

this is a vote splitter candidate.

This is about job protection of the DC MOOCHER class


48 posted on 08/13/2016 11:02:26 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Beernoser

You must be Steve Hayes. His new meme is to say Trump is a drag on down ballot races.

Tell you what, just to be mean, I intend to not vote for any down ballot RINO.

I would have voted straight ticket GOP, but since people like you have a case of concern trollitis, I have decided to mete out consequences for certain actions.

By the way. Trump is ahead. Probably will be yuge win!


49 posted on 08/13/2016 11:05:31 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Lurkinanloomin

These effetes want it to go to congress where the bought and paid for politicians will do what their masters tell them to do.


50 posted on 08/13/2016 11:09:33 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: C19fan; All
Evan McMullin is obviously not a Conservative. No real Conservative would allow himself to be played, as Evan McMullin is allowing himself to be played, by faux Conservatives who clearly do not understand Conservative priorities.

Let me be blunt. I have been fighting for Conservative principles since I was in High School. There is no greater priority for any American Conservative than the preservation of the Constitution the Founders adopted, to preserve what they won in the Revolution. That Constitution absolutely looks to putting America & the Americans "First."

This issue alone gives the lie to the intellectual poseurs at National Review, who are obsessed with trying to shoot down the truest Conservative, since Reagan, to run for President.

Trump: The Issue

Anyone think they can challenge me on these statements? I would suggest that before you attempt it, you sit down and quietly read the Constitution in context, from Preamble to conclusion. It is totally inconsistent with the sick values of the Clintons, Obamas, mass media & global theorists. It is all about a specific people--today's otherwise forgotten people--the American people.

William Flax

51 posted on 08/13/2016 11:21:27 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Beernoser
Traditional Presidential campaigns never got into high gear before Labor Day. The media loves these multi year campaigns; but two months can be plenty of time to demonstrate what you have to offer.

There is absolutely no need or reason to panic. Mrs. Clinton & the fawning media are giving us an enormous body of ammunition to take them apart in September & October. An enormous body of useful ammunition!

52 posted on 08/13/2016 11:30:09 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Donglalinger
Recent photo of McMullin


53 posted on 08/13/2016 11:47:53 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Americanism, not globalism, will be our new future. --Donald Trump)
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To: C19fan

I need 10 bucks worth of whatever he is on.


54 posted on 08/13/2016 6:10:41 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (EAT THE YOUNG! 100 million guppies can't be wrong.)
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To: C19fan

The whole thing is surreal


55 posted on 08/13/2016 6:13:00 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Donglalinger

McMullin = part CIA, part Goldman Sachs banker, part Mormon, Part Bald White Guy, Part Utah


56 posted on 08/15/2016 9:26:56 PM PDT by entropy12 (The GOPe are either Globalists pushing cheap labor express or are perma-neocons.)
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To: C19fan

Win what exactly? The National Review is a joke.


57 posted on 08/15/2016 9:28:01 PM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Radical Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen is "Ready for Hillary!" Are you too?)
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To: FenwickBabbitt

McMullin is part CIA, part Goldman Sachs banker, part Mormon, part Pro-Life, Part Bald White Guy, Part Utah.


58 posted on 08/15/2016 9:29:29 PM PDT by entropy12 (The GOPe are either Globalists pushing cheap labor express or are perma-neocons.)
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To: C19fan

Wow, all I can say is wow.


59 posted on 08/15/2016 9:40:32 PM PDT by kalee
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