One Last Push: 538 electors to choose between Trump and Clinton today

Donald Trump won last month’s presidential
election. But many liberals and progressives
are still clinging to one faint, almost-certainly-
doomed hope that he can be blocked from the
presidency — through the Electoral College.
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That’s because the November 8 vote was
technically not to make Trump president, but
only to determine who 538 electors in various
states across the country will be. It is those
electors who will cast the votes that legally
elect the president on Monday, December 19.
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In modern times, the casting of electoral votes
has been a purely ceremonial occasion in
which the state results from Election Day have
been rubber-stamped.
This year, there’s more drama — because
there’s been a highly unusual effort to
convince Trump-supporting electors to simply
not vote for Trump. .
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37 electors would need to defect from
Trump’s camp to deprive him of the Electoral
College majority he needs to become
president. But only one of those 306 electors
pledged to him has publicly said he’s
revolting.