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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_3137" dir="ltr">'...since Clinton got more votes, those electors should support her, where possible, and hand her the presidency.'</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11713">'There are 25 states <a href="https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/electors.html" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11561">
that mandate</a> electors uphold the will of the electorate, meaning that there are 25 that don't.'</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11787">'take the electors in those 25 states and let them divvy up their votes however they want [in a legal split]'<br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11837">'If we do that, the results change — and Clinton still loses, 260 to 278.'</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11933">'Well, since Clinton did well nationally, why don't we just divvy up
<em id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11959">every</em> elector this way? (The <em id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479088943136_11960">
total split</em>.) If we do that . . . Trump does better, getting 279 electors to Clinton's 259.' 
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