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

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

[rktman]

Hmmm. How about whoever wins the most congressional districts wins the presidency? It would reduce the EC votes and the winner of each district would get 1 EC vote. Sure would make the dems work a lot harder out in the yucky fly over country. Yewwwwwww. Or would it eliminate the EC altogether. Possibilities?

[ClearCase_guy]

They should do it by county --

I believe the US has about 5000 counties.
I believe Hillary won 300 of them.

[2banana]

Funny how these articles never mention the places Hillary barely won. NH, VA, etc.

Why is that?

[rktman]

Don’t want to hurt her feelings? Just a guess.

[bigbob]

They might get one or two. Maybe this is a good pacifier for them to suck onwhile the adults get things done.

[Not A Snowbird]

Instead of “electoral votes” call them “electoral points”. Whoever gets the most points wins, end of story.

[Political Junkie Too]

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.

I don't know... Maybe in four years Hillary Clinton will shoot Steve Bannon!

-PJ

[The people have spoken]

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.

[TomGuy]

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.

[jmaroneps37]

“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 :-)

[Alberta's Child]

I don't like it. That approach eliminates the role of the states in a presidential election.

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.

[factoryrat]

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.

[COBOL2Java]

Poor Hillary. Being a Satanist, in her deal with the devil she forgot that he is a literalist in the execution of his contracts- he delivers what its words call for, not necessarily what the other party actually wanted.

After all, he gave her a popular vote total¹. Perhaps she failed to specify state by state.

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1. Illegal votes notwithstanding.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

LOL Hillary’s America is really really small county-wise.

[tennmountainman]

Yep. Award electors by counties.

[dp0622]

The only 2 EVers I know of that won’t vote for their candidate are dems.

[pissant]

HotAir’s Allahpundit is creaming his shorts again.

[Religion and Politics]

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.

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

[Alberta's Child]

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.

[WashingtonSource]

Was it close in either Nevada or Colorado?