Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump by Over 2.5 Million Votes

Yet those six states account for only 12 percent of the states electing the president.

As odd as it may seem, the Electoral College does not have to elect Donald Trump president on December 19 when the electors cast their ballots. How ironic it is that the critics of negative campaigning and the corrosive effect of big money in politics are not defending Trump’s victory based on his large rallies with the people in a few swing states. Liberals need to get over it.

They voted 8-7 to give the election to Hayes.

The petition comes on top of a three-state recount effort launched by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. They are calling themselves “Hamilton Electors”.

Since the election of Donald Trump as president, we’ve been hearing an outcry to eliminate the Electoral College.

Meanwhile, Trump is now trumpeting – without any proof – that 3 million votes were cast illegally (the only person I have heard who was caught casting two ballots was a Des Moines woman who voted twice for Trump).

Dubbed the “Hamilton Electors,” the group is seeking to convince enough Republican electors to support a third-party candidate that it would either force an Electoral College deadlock, or elect a different candidate entirely. Small states enhance political power acting collectively, awarding all electoral votes to the state’s victor and not diluting power by dividing the votes proportionately as only Nebraska and ME do, splitting their votes. And if the eventual House of Representatives vote for president should choose someone other than Trump, those who voted for him in the general election will feel betrayed by our nation’s governmental system. That’s why some electors are facing harassment, even death threats from unhinged people with too much time on their hands.

The other 302 are technically (we’ll get back to that in a second) bound to vote for their party’s candidate, or, in other words, the candidate who won the state’s electoral votes. “Obviously the election was pretty divisive and I saw a divisiveness that could potentially bleed over after the election, and obviously it did”.

Some people have suddenly discovered a problem with the Electoral College, a system that has worked well for over 230 years. Who knows what the last 16 years would have looked like had Al Gore emerged victorious from the 2000 presidential election, in which Gore won the popular vote (by more than 543,000 votes) but lost the Electoral College to George W. Bush.

Right now, the chance of a constitutional amendment ending the electoral college are slim and the other alternative, a state compact requiring electors to choose the popular vote victor, even if workable, is a long way off.

Have the president be elected by a direct popular vote of the people. It seemed to me it was a symbolic way of affirming the ongoing nature of the Presidency. Stop protesting. Stop the recounts. Democrat activists have, in anticipation of the December 16 vote, attempted to influence the various electors and this influence entails threats against people’s well-being, their livelihoods and in a few cases, even their very lives. It’s not going to happen-and they’re certainly not going to vote for Clinton.