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    Question The one scenario that COULD still get Hillary in the WH

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    For die-hard Democrats holding out hope that they won't have to live through a Trump presidency, there is a last, incredibly long shot for them latch on to — a surprise twist in the Electoral College.

    Though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 200,000, Trump has won the minimum of 270 electoral votes necessary to be elected president. As of late Wednesday, he had 290 to Clinton's 228.

    According to the Constitution, chosen electors of the Electoral College are the real people who will vote for president, when they meet on Dec. 19 in their respective state capitals.

    However, there is technically nothing stopping any of the electors from voting their conscience and refusing to support the candidate to whom they were bound, or from abstaining from voting altogether.

    There's even a name for it: becoming a "faithless elector."

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    Yes we had that come up in the Bush / Gore campaign I believe...they rarely flip though...and it would take numerous states to flip...

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    Not to mention it would take somewhat over 30 voters to do it since if I' not mistaken, if voting holds up like it is now in the states that haven't been declared yet, Trump will have more than 30 more electoral votes than he needs.

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    FO you are getting really desperate

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    "It's rare for electors to defect or abstain. Even in the razor-close 2000 election in which George W. Bush beat Al Gore, no one withheld their vote for Bush and gave it to Gore, who won 271-266 with one abstention.

    The New York Times reported more than 99 percent of electors throughout history have voted as pledged."


    http://kdvr.com/2016/11/10/one-way-h...e-white-house/

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    FO you are getting really desperate

    Hey I just report, you decide

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    FO

    Serious question

    Lets assume Clinton won and continued the same policies of support for the gay agenda, same sex marriage, indoctrinating school kids and promoting liberal christianity.

    True christians like yourself came under pressure in your employment to support their policies at work and in society.

    You started to receive pressure by the govt, black christian friends who embraced liberal views and other groups to conform or you were the bigot and hater according to them

    How will you feel and what will you do?

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    FO

    Serious question

    Lets assume Clinton won and continued the same policies of support for the gay agenda, same sex marriage, indoctrinating school kids and promoting liberal christianity.

    True christians like yourself came under pressure in your employment to support their policies at work and in society.

    You started to receive pressure by the govt, black christian friends who embraced liberal views and other groups to conform or you were the bigot and hater according to them

    How will you feel and what will you do?
    I would do what my Christian conscience dictates. Have always done and will continue to do.

    My trust is not in man, nor in political systems. Jesus even said, render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's...

    I vote, pay taxes and obey the law of the land..but if that law is opposed to the law of God then I will do what God commands.

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