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January 2, 2017 Some of Hollywood’s liberals’ conducted an ad campaign urging Trump electors to be “unfaithful.” In one ad, Martin Sheen, who played the President in the "West Wing" TV show, was quoted, “As you know, our Founding Fathers built the Electoral College to safeguard the American people from the dangers of a demagogue and to ensure that the presidency only goes to someone who is to an ’eminent degree and down with the requisite qualifications.” We wonder what these groups would’ve said if the Democratic candidate -- who committed acts that would have landed other not so powerful people in jail -- had won the election. Other efforts included organized nationwide email bashes pleading with Republican electors to refrain from voting for their candidate. Republican electors received thousands of email messages, in some cases tens of thousands. There were even a few dissenters who chose a darker path sending death-threats. The final elector results from the Electoral College were: Donald Trump 304 (two “unfaithful”), the unsuccessful Democratic nominee 227 (five “unfaithful”), Colin Powell 3, Spotted Eagle 1, Ron Paul 1, John Kasich 1, and Bernie Sanders 1. Four electors in states won by the Democratic candidate were replaced after refusing to vote for the states winning candidate. The results of the “unfaithful” Electoral College vote illustrates how real the possibility for the ultimate conflict could have been, when a few days before the General Election, several so called reputable pollsters laid out highly probable scenarios showing neither candidate gaining more than 5 above the needed 270. Mark, Bill and John |