2016 Postmortem

But facts are stubborn things, and these are the facts:
1) The electoral college exists.
2) When the electors meet in their state capitals on December 19 there will be 306 Republicans and 232 democrats.
3) It is not possible to convince 38 Republican electors to vote for Clinton.
4) There is a very small chance that 37 republican electors may vote for a conservative Republican who is actually qualified to be president. (such people do exist. I did not vote for McCain or Romney because I disagreed with them, not because I thought they were unqualified)
5) If 37 republican electors voted for a republican other than Trump the election will go to the house of Representatives.
6) The house republicans can then choose who their president will be, Trump or the other person.