* If Trump somehow pulls through, the cover of the NY Post on the day after the election should have a picture of stunned Hillary with the caption “Schlonged!!!!!”
* It’s really kind of astonishing (in a completely predictable way) how the press lets Hillary Clinton get away with portraying herself as being totally concerned with cybersecurity and keeping our country’s secrets safe.
* Yes, wouldn’t a decent reporter ask a simple follow up question along the lines of, “can you explain what medical diagnosis you have been given for your cough and what is the treatment for it?”
Under sharia law, which my wife Huma endorses, she could be stoned for leaving me. She should think this through. pic.twitter.com/62CAVPsKg0
— Anthony Weiner (@AnthonyVVeiner) August 30, 2016
* If Hillary collapses, she can still win by theft. She has 194 Electoral Votes no matter what. Add Ohio (18), Pennsylvania (20), Florida (29), and Virginia (13), and she is at 274. With Kaine on the ticket, a brilliant choice, the “Red State” of Virginia may turn blue, and Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida are stealable.
Trump’s most standard path to victory involves every state Bush won twice, minus Virginia, which gets him to 268, just short (which is why Kaine was such a brilliant choice, Hillary now needs only to win every state GOre or Kerry won plus her VP’s home state). Then picking up ME’s 2nd CD sends the election to the House (unless there is a Hillary mole among his electors), where he probably wins.
Any other state would do and his best chances are the three “purple” states Bush won once (New Mexico (5), New Hampshire (4), Iowa (6), plus the Rust Belt states Michigan (16) and Wisconsin (10)). If he loses Ohio and Florida and gets all of those, he is at 262, so he would need Virginia or Pennsylvania (20) as well, but those are unlikely because Governor McAuliffe in VA or the Philly machine will look the other way while votes are manufactured.
If Trump can win Ohio and Florida, he might lose Colorado (9) and still win with Wisconsin or Michigan or 2 of the purple states. I think his chances are good even if he loses one of those two states — but he has to count on GOP governors Kasich in Ohio and Scott in Florida to not allow shenanigans. I expect Kasich, much as he hates Trump, still won’t want to allow Democrats to steal votes in his state, so this seems achievable. With Florida’s history, there will be extra scrutiny there, and although they use dubious electronic technology I really doubt that the GOP there has allowed the Dems to hack it.
So the map changes surprisingly little. Colorado and New Mexico may have really turned blue, but Michigan or Wisconsin or NH+Iowa make up for that. I think Ohio will resist attempted fraud and go to Trump. Florida as usual is the wild card. Without it, and factoring in the likely losses of Colorado and NM, he would need Michigan plus Wisconsin plus NH-or-Iowa plus either VA or PA, very unlikely, but maybe Colorado isn’t so blue as all that.
Prediction: Trump wins the popular vote (because the theft will be concentrated where it will do the most good), but needs Florida for the win, and the Supreme court is tied 4-4 this time around….then someone dies.
