It should be no shock to anyone if the Electoral College elects someone other than Trump [View all]

[mtnsnake]

In fact, with circumstances as they are, it should be EXPECTED of them to elect someone else.

One of the main reasons that the Founding Fathers set up the Electoral College was to make sure that the country didn't fall into the hands of anyone who was unqualified to hold the office of president or to anyone who has shown signs of acting like a tyrant, regardless of whether or not that person won the popular vote of that any particular state. IOW, the electors of each state have the power to override the popular vote of that state if the elector feels the winner of that state is unworthy to hold the office of president, right?

In regards to the election process, here is what Alexander Hamilton had to say about it in the Federalist Papers:

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"All these advantages will happily combine in the plan devised by the convention; which is, that the people of each State shall choose a number of persons as electors, equal to the number of senators and representatives of such State in the national government, who shall assemble within the State, and vote for some fit person as President. Their votes, thus given, are to be transmitted to the seat of the national government, and the person who may happen to have a majority of the whole number of votes will be the President. But as a majority of the votes might not always happen to centre in one man, and as it might be unsafe to permit less than a majority to be conclusive, it is provided that, in such a contingency, the House of Representatives shall select out of the candidates who shall have the five highest number of votes, the man who in their opinion may be best qualified for the office.

The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States. It will not be too strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue. And this will be thought no inconsiderable recommendation of the Constitution, by those who are able to estimate the share which the executive in every government must necessarily have in its good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says: "For forms of government let fools contest That which is best administered is best," yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration."
https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers#TheFederalistPapers-68

So....it seems that one of the primary reasons the Electoral College was formed was to prevent irrational people like Donald Trump from ever setting foot in the White House, was it not? So how about it, electors? This is your chance to do what you are supposed to do.