Post-Election Riots & Protests and change.org

Thousands of anti-Trump protesters block I-94 in Minneapolis

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Several thousand anti-Trump protesters blocked Interstate 94 in Minneapolis for about an hour Thursday night, causing a major traffic backup in both directions. From about 8 to 9 p.m., throngs of protesters who had marched onto the heavily traveled road after a rally at the University of Minnesota chanted and hoisted signs, some of them sitting on the road, others locking arms and facing lines of police officers.

They eventually left the freeway via Cedar Avenue. The protest, while often angry, was peaceful. No one was hurt, and no one was arrested. It marked a second night of passionate rallies and marches in the Twin Cities and nationwide over the victory and views of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump.

In reaction, Trump tweeted Thursday night: “Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!”

Petition for Electoral College to Make Clinton President Tops 2m

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Petition, started Wednesday night, says Clinton won popular vote and electors not forced to select President-elect Donald Trump

Comments: Image snap of CNN & StarTrib

@business umm ... constitutional amendment! There's a process to change it and it's not .@Change . org https://t.co/qlveBvH5Ph pic.twitter.com/D1fa5H9B7K

— James Peet (@jrpeet) November 11, 2016

The left is concerned about a Trump presidency being volatile and damaging. So they riot and burn things.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 11, 2016

Why We Have an Electoral College https://t.co/GCu9IWkfrx pic.twitter.com/LEvTSYTMd4

— National Review (@NRO) November 13, 2016

Perfect storm

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Comments: Sadly (if you are a McCain supporter), the polling is moving strongly for Obama. I had coffee with a friend this morning. Aside from the merger news, and news about his son's broken arm, we discussed politics. The perfect storm: the negative financial news over the last four weeks!

Wouldn't this be exciting!

269 tie: An electoral college 'doomsday'?

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On Nov. 5, the presidential election winds up in a electoral-college tie, 269-269, the Democrat-controlled House picks Sen. Barack Obama as president, but the Senate, with former Democrat Joe Lieberman voting with Republicans, deadlocks at 50-50, so Vice President Dick Cheney steps in to break the tie to make Republican Sarah Palin his successor.

"Wow," said longtime presidential historian Stephen Hess. "Wow, that would be amazing, wouldn't it?"

"If this scenario ever happened, it would be like a scene from the movie 'Scream' for Democrats," said Democratic strategist Mary Anne Marsh. "The only thing worse for the Democrats than losing the White House, again, when it had the best chance to win in a generation, but to do so at the hands of Cheney and Lieberman. That would be cruel."

Sound impossible? It's not. There are at least a half-dozen plausible ways the election can end in a tie, and at least one very plausible possibility - giving each candidate the states in which they now lead in the polls, only New Hampshire - which went Republican in 2000 and Democratic in 2004, each time by just 1.5 percent - needs to swap to the Republican column to wind up with a 269-269 tie.

There are currently 10 tossup states, according to RealClearPol-itics.com, which keeps a running average of all state polls. If Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain wins Ohio, Virginia, New Hampshire and Indiana - not at all far-fetched - and Mr. Obama takes reliably Democratic states Pennsylvania and Michigan, and flips Colorado (in which he holds a slight poll lead), with the two splitting New Mexico and Nevada, the electoral vote would be tied at 269.

Comment: Graphic from the Washington Times

Electoral Vote website

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