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Yes, Hillary lost more pledged electoral votes than any presidential candidate since 1872! In the 1872 Presidential election, the combined Democrat/Liberal Republican candidate, Horace Greeley, won in Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Maryland, giving him 66 electoral votes.

However 63 of those Greeley electors switched their votes from Greeley to four non-candidates. Of course, those 63 electors could hardly be called "faithless" since Greeley had died 24 days after the election before any electors had met. In approving the electoral college reelection of Republican Ulysses S. Grant, the House did not count the three electoral votes for the deceased Greeley.

But, if one is to consider only electoral votes pledged to living presidential candidates, one has to go back (over two centuries ago!!) to the 1808 Presidential election where six electors from New York, who were pledged to vote for Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison to be President, voted instead for Madison's Vice-Presidential candidate, ironically named George Clinton.

1 posted on 12/20/2016 11:03:02 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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Hillary almost had 8 faithless electors: An elector in Maine tried to vote for Bernie, but was forced to change his vote to Clinton. An elector in Minnesota and an elector in Colorado both also tried to vote for some other person, but were replaced under electoral procedure by electors who cast votes for Clinton.


2 posted on 12/20/2016 11:05:31 AM PST by Little Pig
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3 posted on 12/20/2016 11:09:02 AM PST by eaglestar
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Odd, no mention of this in the MSM. In fact, they’re not even talking about Russian hacking anymore.


4 posted on 12/20/2016 11:14:49 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Carl Vehse

For Hillary, being faithless comes with the territory.


5 posted on 12/20/2016 11:15:05 AM PST by fhayek
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6 posted on 12/20/2016 11:16:35 AM PST by Spruce
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Breaking the glass ceiling. that is when she isn’t busy breaking the law.


7 posted on 12/20/2016 11:18:34 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: Carl Vehse
A Great big thank you to:

Martin Sheen, Debra Messing, James Cromwell, BD Wong, Noah Wyle, Freda Payne, Bob Odenkirk, J. Smith Cameron, Michael Urie, Moby, Mike Farrell, Loretta Swit, Richard Schiff, Christine Lahti, Steven Pasquale, Dominic Fumusa, Emily Tyra, and Talia Balsam

for inspiring these electors to vote their conscience and vote for someone other than Hilliary. Biggest loser in the history of the Republic.

Great job losers.

9 posted on 12/20/2016 11:25:10 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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Good column by my friend Baris. He was one of the Deplorable Gurus working data with me on election day and is a key part of my new book “How Trump Won” due out Jan 18.


16 posted on 12/20/2016 11:43:01 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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In total, there have been 157 faithless electors since the founding of the Electoral College, of which 71 were the result of the candidate dying before the day electors cast their votes. Only 3 electors abstained rather than vote for their party’s nominee and 83 electoral votes were changed based on the elector’s personal choice.

Interesting!

18 posted on 12/20/2016 11:46:19 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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Another glass ceiling shatters like a White House lamp!
22 posted on 12/20/2016 12:08:02 PM PST by Savage Beast ( "You can--in fact must--shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. It just has to be the truth. J Goldberg)
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It wasn’t Comey that bit the Hillary Puppet in the a$$.
Benghazi bit her and drew blood.
Whatever possessed this cold, hard lying criminal to run for Pres and think she could win is beyond reality.
It shows just how truely sociopathic she is.


23 posted on 12/20/2016 12:20:21 PM PST by doc maverick (I)
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