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Treant

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13. It's interesting!
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 03:56 PM
Feb 2016

and please don't delete.

It's getting late to get on the ballot on many states, which also look askance (or it's not legal) for those who already ran on another ballot to run then as an Independent. In those states, except for write-ins, Trump and Sanders wouldn't matter.

When Sanders does not win the Democratic Party endorsement fair and square (and that will happen), a lot of blush will be off the rose. He should perform about as well as a typical Independent.

Ditto with Trump on the other side.

Will it lead to no candidate getting 271 Electoral votes? Maybe...but I seriously think that it won't end up mattering. Trump and Sanders end up with 0-10 EVs each, and Rubio and Clinton would split the rest on predictable boundaries.

Which, all else being equal, leads to a Clinton Presidency.

Now if Sanders does run but Trump does not (Sanders has already stated he wouldn't do this, but...), then the map would change.

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