(December 17, 2016 at 11:37 am)Jehanne Wrote: Will the Electoral College dump Trump?
I doubt it very much. Then again, I thought Trump would lose by a comfortable margin on election night.
But I expect that the worst you'll see is a few defectors taking a 'principled stand' that won't change the election results but will lead to stories about how they and their families were targets of death threats and racist slogans written on their cars. And at least one of those stories will be a fake one where they did it themselves. Because that's right about where we are today.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
