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Mr. Luddite

On 7/21/2015 2:38 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 7/21/15 2:27 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:37:46 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

If Trump runs as a third
party candidate, Hillary will bury Trump and the GOP nominee.

It is likely that the only reason that would be true is because of the
Electoral College system. Guys like Perot in 1992 can get almost 20%
of the popular vote, yet get zero EC votes.
In fact the last 3d party candidate to get more than one accidental EC
vote was George Wallace.

She'll bury them in the popular vote and the EC vote, though only the
latter matters. Trump would have to carry states to get any significant
number of EC votes, and if he does, those would be the states that
normally the Republican candidate would carry. What states do you think
Trump would carry?

State of insanity.