December 19th Hillary Clinton Last Chance To Be US President

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This Tuesday's vote in the US Presidential election determined the electors in the Electoral College. On December 19 these electors will in turn cast the votes to legally elect the US president. Their vote, however, is extremely unlikely to change the results, being a purely a ceremonial occasion. 





The authors of the petition acknowledge that if electors “vote against their party, they usually pay a fine.”
“But they can vote however they want and there is no legal means to stop them in most states,” it adds.
Clinton’s supporters in their petition on change.org are not losing hope though  they are calling on the electors “to ignore their states' votes and cast their ballots for [former] Secretary Clinton.”

When he is sworn into office, President-elect Donald Trump will become the fourth commander-in-chief in US history to win in the Electoral College vote while losing the popular vote.

Scripture tells us: Let us not grow weary in doing good,
 for in due season, we shall reap, if we do not lose heart.


George W. Bush did the same in the controversial 2000 election. It also happened twice in 12 years in the 1800s: Rutherford B. Hayes won in 1876, and Benjamin Harrison in 1888. 







Hayes suffered the biggest loss in the popular vote, losing by 3 percentage points to Southern Democrat Samuel Tilden. Trump came in second by 1.2 percent. Both Bush and Harrison lost by less than a percent to Vice President Al Gore and incumbent President Grover Cleveland respectively, according to Dave Leip’s Atlas of US Presidents.


There was only one other time that a president entered the White House without winning the popular vote, and that was in 1824, due to a four-way race that did not produce a winner in the Electoral College, forcing the House of Representatives to decide, in accordance with the 12th Amendment. The House elected John Quincy Adams as president. At that point in time, candidates did not run as a combined presidential and vice presidential ticket, and John C. Calhoun won the vice presidency outright.

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