>>>>>--if Trump doesn't get the nod, there is still a chance he would run as independent (assuming that he even really wants to be president)
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>>>>>I could be wrong and he really thinks he would make a good president. But I think I know why he runs........ego and the opportunity to spout.
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>>>>I would assume that his ego and his need for attention is a big part of it.
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>>>>>I don't think he'll pull a Monte Brewster ("This was all a big joke") but my nightmare vision s that he actually wins and pulls a Robert Redford ("What do I do now" - The Candidate)
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>>>>My guess is that he's more interested in running in the election - or possibly even winning the election - than he is in taking office. On the off-chance that he did win the election, I wouldn't be shocked at all for him to say "oh...never mind...". ..but I do not see him winning.
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>>>"If push came to shove I would suspect that the Electoral College would prevent it, even if he won the popular vote. There is no federal law that requires electors to vote as they have pledged, and a lot of states don't have any laws that require them to vote a certain way."
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>>>That's BY FAR the most frightening thing I've heard in this election. As unqualified as he might be; as abhorrent as his views might be; As stupid a notion his actually winning might sound - if he wins the election he should become President. I don't give the Electoral College the right not to vote for him because that would then give them the right to not vote for MYcandidate somewhere down the road.
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>>>There are only two reasons I can think of for not voting in the Electoral College for the candidate to whom you are pledged.
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>>>The candidate dies.
>>>The candidate get convicted/indited/etc. involving something that would disqualify hir (him/her) from serving the term in office.
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>>...or 3 - the American public was too stupid and picked an obviously wrong person for the job.
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>I seriously hope that you are simply trolling. If not (I don't have words enough to express my disgust)

No - I actually have very little faith in the American voter - and when it comes to politics I actually think a lot of people in the USA are just stupid. Look - Of all the candidates in the race, Sanders makes the most sense. Of course that’s why the American public won’t vote for him. Bernie wants to scale back the Military Industrial Complex, end mass incarceration and introduce universal health care. But who wants that? Americans were terrified of the word socialism, even though we have many aspects of socialism, such as Medicare, the VA, social security and free K-12 education. Americans love all those things, because they don’t consider them to be socialism, even though they are. You want an example of how stupid Americans are? If you talk to the people who support Donald Trump, they’ll say, ‘Because he’s one of us.’ Oh yeah right, Trump’s a billionaire, who flies around in a private jet and is married to a European super model, but he understands' working people.' I can show you studies showing how few Americans can name the three branches of government and how people dislike Obamacare but like individual parts of it. If there’s one thing Republican voters can agree on it’s that the less the head of our government knows about government, the better. John Kasich is one of the few adults in the field, and he’s trying to buck this trend with this catchy slogan, ‘Kasich, I know how a bill becomes a law.’ But that’s not what GOP voters want anymore. Experience? Ugh. Knowing things? Republicans avoid that stuff like a gay son. Ben Carson, who says that the Ayatollah Khomeini and Vladimir Putin went to college together, which no one can even find a source for, . was the front runner for a while. Of course he was, because 85% of Iowa Republicans say they found the total lack of government experience to be his biggest selling point!!! Hence...stupid.