re: Electoral College In Game Thread - Trump 265 Clinton 160 Other 4

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so... for the 1st time since 1968 electoral votes went to someone other than the main candidates of the 2 major political parties

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Didn't some Minnesotan vote for John Edwards instead of Kerry?

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Didn't some Minnesotan vote for John Edwards instead of Kerry?

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yep you're right, my mistake... I missed it

though Edwards was the VP candidate... so technically was still a vote for the ticket... but yes you are correct

ETA: my corrected wording should be "most electoral votes for neither of the main 2 candidates since '68"

They are gonna try and dispute this one too

Is that the Final Score?

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Is that the Final Score?

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no... Hawaii's 4 voters are voting now I think

HailHail just started a thread saying 1 voted Bern bot instead of all 4 going to Hilldawg

would make it...

Trump- 304
Clinton- 227
Powell- 3
Sanders- 1
Kasich- 1
Paul- 1
Eagle- 1

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LOL at the "protestors" in those pictures.

Get a fvcking job, losers.

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But their job is to protest, 35 bucks and hour!

270 to win confirms the 1 vote change in Hawaii

your FINAL electoral score is...

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Trump- 304
Clinton- 227
Powell- 3
Sanders- 1
Kasich- 1
Paul- 1
Eagle- 1

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Token vote: Bill Clinton voted for his wife in New York - but it will not change the result, with the Republican on course to take the Electoral College

David Bright of Maine was supposed to back the Democratic loser but announced he would defy the wishes of the state's voters and back Bernie Sanders, her primary opponent.

He was later told he'd be replaced by another elector if he made that move, so decided to vote Clinton instead.

In Minnesota an elector who was supposed to choose Clinton refused to vote and got replaced.
Another 'faithless' elector, this time in Colorado, got replaced when he cast a vote for John Kasich instead of Hillary Clinton.

The elector, Micheal Baca, was a prominent Democratic 'Hamilton elector,' who was encouraging his GOP peers to unbind themselves from their state's popular vote winner and choose a more conventional Republican than Trump.

Because Colorado makes its delegates pledge to support the state's popular vote winner – Clinton, in this case – Baca was forced out of the Electoral College and replaced by someone who cast one of the nine pro-Clinton votes for the state.

In Washington state, four electors broke away from Clinton, with some of the votes going to former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Washington was where other Democratic 'Hamilton electors' said they would vote across the aisle in hopes that Republicans would follow suit.

Another vote that was supposed to go to Clinton reportedly went to Faith Spotted Eagle, a Native American environmentalist protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

In contrast, as the votes were cast in a series of states in the east, the mid-west and the south, just two Texas electors deserted Trump, with one voting for Kasich and another choosing former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a libertarian leader who ran for the White House twice.

Read more: LINK

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Pretty telling how CBS feels about this. Scott Pelly just reported that Trump won quote, over 270 votes Unquote. a-hole didn't have the honesty to report the actual count. Want fake news? Watch the MSM.

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True dat.