What about this idea. An Electoral College compromise that would still favour the GOP...

[Locut0s]

Can't remember where I saw this suggested, could have been from a Keith Olberman video I saw recently. I doubt VERY much even this is possible, it's an extreme long shot. However I think it has a better chance of success than just hoping that enough GOP electors change their mind on their own. The idea is that it's the Democratic electors who compromise and offer a deal to the rest of the GOP electors, to elect a more moderate GOP candidate. I know this sounds crazy Democrats agreeing to vote for and install a GOP president. But I think we are at a point where we have to look at this as damage control, triage, salvage what you can and swallow your pride. The result would of course still be terrible for liberals, but not the kind of "end of the world" terror that we all so fear in Trump. I mean seriously I think we can all agree that Trump is an extinction level event, to borrow a phrase from paleontology. Who should be nominated would of course be something that would have to be negotiated behind closed doors. I'm thinking that likely in order to get enough GOP members to agree to the idea in order to clinch it, that the Democrats would likely have to hold their noses and give a lot to the GOP, it would be very painful. Perhaps they would vote for someone like Mitt Romney, I don't know. At any rate the idea is to look at this is kind of like the apocalypse, what can we do to prevent it even it it still means a bad outcome. What do you think?

[WillowTree]

1. The electors don't all gather in a room somewhere and vote.

Each state's electors gather and vote in their own state and the state's totals are forwarded on to Congress. So I don't see how the Democratic electors from the states that went blue would have an opportunity to come to this agreement with the Republican electors from the states that went red. It would take some kind of a WebEx meeting or the mother of all conference calls, and that would assume that all of the electors agreed even to the meeting in the first place and all of that would have to be organized and executed within the next 24 hours.

Doesn't sound practical to me.

[world wide wally]

2. The EC electors should consider this before they do anything:

IF you install Trump as President, half of this country will believe that Putin is behind it. No matter what it is.

[TrogL]

3. An idea that would work

If enough Electors can be convinced to do it, vote for "Hamilton" or anybody else so Trump doesn't get enough votes. Then it goes to the House. If sanity prevails then the House could elect a centrist like Kasich.

[WillowTree]

4. The House couldn't just "elect a centrist like Kasich" unless.......

.......he's one of the three top vote getters coming out of the Electoral College because those are the three entities that the House members will have to choose from if it winds up going to them.

But be that as it may, the EC is due to vote in about 36 hours or less. Not much time to get an agreement to do something of that nature.