Inertia

[moon_custafer]

Oh electoral college.

I didn't have much hope, but I'm still disappointed.

Comments

[dewline]

Agreed.

[sovay]

I didn't have much hope, but I'm still disappointed.

That's my feeling. It is possible to be extremely disappointed having expected almost nothing at all.

[browngirl]

Yeah.

[sushidog]

Yeah, me too. It was a long shot, but it would have been such a relief.

Limbo dancing

[palain_7]

"How low can you go?!"

Sank beneath even my minimal expectations. A record number of electors went against their voters this time: mostly by not voting for Hillary. Bernie Sanders die-hards and the like.

Re: Limbo dancing

[heliopausa]

I believe that only one elector switched from Clinton to Sanders; three other Democrat electors attempted to persuade Republican electors to switch from Trump by themselves switching to what they hoped would be an alternative Republican candidate - Colin Powell. I think it was a valiant but misjudged attempt. (It could have worked if they'd had six more months to try to persuade the other electors, or to find a better compromise candidate.)