What are the chances the EC will block Trump?

[ultimatebob]

0.01%

I'm still giving it a one in 10,000 chance, just because I've been wrong on my Trump predictions before.

 

[superstition]

Zero point zero

Being serious I'd prefer them not to. I'd like to avoid a Constitutional crisis.
We'll be alright with Trump.

George W Bush being appointed by Kathryn Harris and the "conservative" branch of the Supreme Court could qualify.

The electors behaving as they're allowed to doesn't.

But, the butthurt would rise to proportions not seen since the Civil War, surely. Electors are too weak-kneed for that level of responsibility.

He didn't even win the popular vote so the whinge about the electors defying the will of the people is especially sketchy this time, too.

The founders specifically created the electoral college to prevent people like Trump from being elected by the unwashed masses. The irony is that "constitutionalist" conservatives should be the ones trumpeting about letting the electors make their decision. You know, like the late Antonin Scalia that Trump pretends to worship.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

He didn't even win the popular vote so the whinge about the electors defying the will of the people is especially sketchy this time, too

Yet, he did win the popular vote within the states he won and any elector that chooses not to vote according to the results for that state would be defying the will of the people in that state.

 

[Brainonska511]

Yet, he did win the popular vote within the states he won and any elector that chooses not to vote according to the results for that state would be defying the will of the people in that state.

Maybe that would be true if there was an one elector, but states have more than one. Lets stop pretending that the will of the people is being followed since winner take all inherently ignores half the people, since all someone needs to get all the electors is 50%+1 vote.

He won the electoral college under the standing rules. However, his margin of victory in states that gave him that win was quite narrow (~80k votes). He doesn't have a "mandate", either from a popular vote or electoral college victory margin.

 

[rudder]

Who has Hillary picked for her Cabinet?

We would have to check with George Soros... I am sure he has it all mapped out.

 

[Kazukian]

Who has Hillary picked for her Cabinet?

Can you imagine how many positions she'd promised before she was elected? Everything she did was carefully orchestrated.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Clinton is working hard behind the scenes to try and still become president. She first tried the recount strategy using Jill Stein as a proxy via donations. That failed. She is trying the "Russians did it" Invalidate Trump and make me president strategy.

Lets see how it works out. HRC is fuming and this must be real painful for her when she assumed anointment and the keys to the Whitehouse.

Colin Powell was right, She screws everything she touches with her hubris.

 

[sandorski]

Clinton is working hard behind the scenes to try and still become president. She first tried the recount strategy using Jill Stein as a proxy via donations. That failed. She is trying the "Russians did it" Invalidate Trump and make me president strategy.

Lets see how it works out. HRC is fuming and this must be real painful for her when she assumed anointment and the keys to the Whitehouse.

Colin Powell was right, She screws everything she touches with her hubris.

meh, I don't think she's done much of anything since the Election.

 

[nickqt]

Clinton is working hard behind the scenes to try and still become president. She first tried the recount strategy using Jill Stein as a proxy via donations. That failed. She is trying the "Russians did it" Invalidate Trump and make me president strategy.

Lets see how it works out. HRC is fuming and this must be real painful for her when she assumed anointment and the keys to the Whitehouse.

Colin Powell was right, She screws everything she touches with her hubris.

Keep on repeating what Master Limbaugh shits into your skull, Trump's Chump.

Not only is it entertaining, but it gives a good insight into just how brain damaged y'all really are.

 

[werepossum]

I agree. we may cringe from time to time but we will survive a Trump Presidency

We will survive it, but we may not be okay. However, democratic representation with bad results is very much better than a bunch of pretentious, self-important pricks overturning an election for our own good.

 

[sandorski]

Supposedly as much as half of the R Electors might be considering not choosing Trump. The source is kinda vague and "speaks" in a lot of carefully chosen wording though. Even if true, still seems like a near impossibility.

 

[baydude]

If Congress were a majority Democrats, would Hillary be president?

 

[sandorski]

If Congress were a majority Democrats, would Hillary be president?

Congress has nothing to do with the EC, I'm 90% certain anyway.

 

[baydude]

Congress has nothing to do with the EC, I'm 90% certain anyway.

But they could put more weight on the alleged hacking and side with the DNC?

 

[sandorski]

But they could put more weight on the alleged hacking and side with the DNC?

Pretty sure it doesn't work that way at all.

 

[MrSquished]

the chances are slim to none unfortunately.

the EC will not do it's job and prevent a demagogue from becoming president.

it's time to gear up and get used to some years of a regressive Trump presidency. at least until he gets impeached. at the rate he is including his children in important transition stuff, if he transfers that to the presidency there should be ample opportunity to shut this charlatan down. at least if we hold ourselves to the standard of trying to impeach a president for a blowjob that is.

 

[superstition]

it's time to gear up and get used to some years of a regressive Trump presidency. at least until he gets impeached. at the rate he is including his children in important transition stuff, if he transfers that to the presidency there should be ample opportunity to shut this charlatan down. at least if we hold ourselves to the standard of trying to impeach a president for a blowjob that is.

Talk to the people who heard Pelosi say we need to look forward not back about impeaching Dubya when the Dems got enough members elected to do it if they had chosen to.

They didn't even have enough backbone to prevent Dubya from being appointed rather than elected by Kathryn Harris, the GOP, and the "conservative" activist judges on the Supreme Court.

They did have enough, though, to whip against letting Sanders bring the public option to a vote.

 

[werepossum]

You guys are funny. As long as one is far enough away to avoid the foamy spittle, anyway.

 

[Chaotic42]

Virtually zero.

 

[baydude]

Democrats are paving the way to impeach Donald Trump. What are the chances this will happen?

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/democrats-pave-the-way-to-impeach-donald-trump

 

[jman19]

Zero.

 

[John Connor]

I believe it would just go to the House and then you can still bet Trump will 'Make America Great Again.'

Leave it to the whiny little bastard left to cry foul and do everything and anything to undermine a President-elect that won fare and square just like his asinine predecessor. I've seen on the news the EC folks getting death threats and shit. If this isn't sour grapes I don't know what is. Truly pathetic.

But rest easy buttercups. The market WILL hit 20k, jobs will be created we WILL become energy independent and ISIS is gonna meet their maker.