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2016 Postmortem

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3. This certainly is troubling. If Hillary got 270 votes, five faithless electors would have been

Tue Dec 20, 2016, 05:48 PM

Dec 2016

enough to overturn the results of the election.

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Democrats Were More Divided In the End [View all] DonViejo Dec 2016 OP

Get rid of the caucuses, which drew a bunch of nutcases into the party. geek tragedy Dec 2016 #1

So we end up electing Trump. LisaL Dec 2016 #4

I think that's true. Garrett78 Dec 2016 #5

Thats not quite what I was going for Amishman Dec 2016 #8

Probably not FBaggins Dec 2016 #6

I agree. hamsterjill Dec 2016 #12

The Electoral College has got to go. woolldog Dec 2016 #9

What was with the Colin Powell voters? NobodyHere Dec 2016 #10

No, we weren't. Orsino Dec 2016 #13