The electors do not live in a vacuum.

[kentuck]

Some of them must be having a difficult time supporting Trump? They don't have to. If they don't want to vote for Clinton, they can "abstain" from voting at all. Under the circumstances, many of them may be thinking along those lines?

Without the needed 270 votes, it would go to the Congress. Make no mistake, this is a crisis situation and history is watching all of them, including the electors, the Congress, and the President.

They must do the right thing for our country.

[milestogo]

1. Republicans live in a soundproof chamber that plays Faux News all day.

If they don't they aren't real Republicans.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Unfortunately they're almost all blind party hacks. Nt

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Under the present circumstances,

and given that Republican congressional leadership (presumably including Paul Ryan) chose to withhold the Russia information from voters -- I'm not terribly enthusiastic about handing the decision to this particular House of Representatives. ZERO confidence that they would act to honor voters' clear preference.


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[underpants]

4. I don't think the electors will either but if they did we'd have a POTUS elected by an incredibly

unpopular Congress. The last time the Repubs won, the Supreme Court made the decision.

[Bettie]

5. They are party loyalists

They blindly vote for anything with an R after it. They would vote for a package of olive loaf if it had an R after it on the ballot.

[KamaAina]

6. The House would pick another repuke.

Likely its own Speaker. Less buffoonish? Perhaps. Less orange? Obviously. Less dangerous? Uh, nope.

[kentuck]

7. Correct.

But maybe they would pick a different Cabinet?