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Angry Democrats Pushed for Electoral College Revolution

<p>It seems the Dems still can&rsquo&semi;t get over the fact that Hillary lost&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;For fear that Donald Trump will violate democratic norms&comma; liberals want to have the Electoral College throw out the results of a presidential election and impose their choice on the nation for the first time in history&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em>National Review&rsquo&semi;s<&sol;em> Rich Lowry&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nearly 127 million people voted in last month&rsquo&semi;s election&comma; and Hillary is estimated to have won the popular vote by 2&period;5 million votes&period; But&nbsp&semi;the Electoral College &ndash&semi; according to its own rules and despite some urging not to vote for him &ndash&semi; elected Donald Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This fact rankled Democratic voters&comma; many of whom urged electors to change their mind&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Let&rsquo&semi;s take a look at how this unique process works&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Electoral College is made up of 538 members&comma; each with a single vote to cast in presidential elections&period; The number of representatives a state gets is equal to that state&rsquo&semi;s number of congressional representatives&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For example&colon; Indiana has 9 House members and 2 US senators&comma; which equals 11 electors&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of DC and the 50 states&comma; only 30 require electors to vote for their party&rsquo&semi;s designated candidate&period; For the remaining 21&comma; the choice is up to the elector&period; Those who vote in opposition to their party have been deemed &ldquo&semi;faithless electors&period;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since the Electoral College&rsquo&semi;s inception in 1789&comma; there have been only 157 instances in which an elector did not vote for his or her party&rsquo&semi;s designated candidate&period; Last month&comma; Trump came out on top with 306 electoral votes VS Hillary&rsquo&semi;s 232&period; He also won the majority of statewide contests&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Democratic Hypocrisy&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By law&comma; electors have the power to act as a final check on a &ldquo&semi;presidential tyrant&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes Lowry&period; This has never happened&comma; and was unlikely to happen this year&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;In theory&comma; 37 electors could flip against Trump on Dec&period; 19th&comma; deny him the 270 electoral votes needed to win and precipitate one of the gravest constitutional crises in the history of the republic&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes Lowry&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;More than anything else&comma; the calls for an Electoral College coup expose a standardless will to power of a Left that professes to value democratic procedure&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The electoral vote became official today &lpar;Dec&period; 20th&rpar;&comma; with Trump scoring 304 total electoral votes&period; He will be sworn in as America&rsquo&semi;s 45th president on January 20th&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;This historic election is now officially over and I look forward to President-elect Trump taking the oath of office in January&comma;&rdquo&semi; said RNC co-chair Sharon Day&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Our unified Republican government will hit the ground running next year so we can deliver real change and make America great again&period; For the good of the country&comma; Democrats must stop their cynical attempts to undermine the legitimacy of this election&comma; which Donald Trump won decisively in the Electoral College with more votes than any republican since 1988&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of course they were spectacularly unsuccessful &&num;8211&semi;&nbsp&semi;even thought they were successul in convincing two electors to swith and vote against Trump&comma; 4 electors slated to vote for Hillary defected and voted for Trump&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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