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The Electoral College needs to do their actual vote on December 19. For the most part that’s just rubber-stamping the acknowledged results, but several states have rules that allow electors to vote differently form how their state voted. And so, there are those on the pro-Hillary side who still hope to change the outcome of the election. The math isn’t really on their side, but if enough electors changed their votes, it would be a Constitutionally-allowed change in the outcome.

So, of course, they’re using the calm, rational, peaceful tactics we’ve all come to know, love and expect from those on that side of the aisle:

Electoral College Members Now Receiving Death Threats From Clinton Supporters

Here’s the thing: the Right wing was never going to get violent just because they lost an election. The Right didn’t get violent after ’08, nor after ’12, certainly not like the riots many cities have seen in the wake of the ’16 elections. But if the election of trump gets tossed because a sufficient number of electors become “faithless electors,” well, I dunno. If that unlikely event (please note: 2016 seems to be the year for unlikely events) were to occur, Hillary would be unpopular on a scale not only never seen before in American history, but never *imagined* in American history.

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