Julia Ioffe has some good quality Republicans-in-disarray porn available at Politico. Speaking of which, based on some pretty consistent polling out of Utah, I think it would be relatively simple for Clinton to ensure that Donald Trump doesn’t get its Electoral College votes. Since it looks like she’s in third place there and that Trump only has a tiny lead over Evan McMullin, all Clinton has to do is send the word out that she wants her supporters to vote for McMullin. If even a small fraction of her voters follow that advice, there’s little chance that Trump can carry Utah. It’s worth thinking about because it would keep Trump from winning even if he carries all the other states that Romney won (except North Carolina) and Trump somehow won Nevada, Iowa, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Of course, without any candidate getting an outright majority of the Electoral College in that scenario, who knows what would happen?
Of course, if it’s true that Clinton is ahead in Alaska then she’d get to 271 even in the above scenario regardless of who won Utah.
Maybe I’ll write about the disarray story today, or maybe it will have to wait for tomorrow.
