A couple days ago, I was talking to my friend, Kent, about the pressure being put on electors in the Electoral College, and I came up with a path to win the presidency on a reduced budget.
Kent is something of a Constitutional scholar. He explained the concept of “faithless electors” voting contrary to the popular vote in their state. I thought it was automatic that electoral votes, at least in “winner take all” states, automatically go to, well, the winner. Apparently, Hillary Clinton supporters believe the electors should vote according to one’s “conscience.” Presumably, it follows under their view that anyone with a conscience would vote for Hillary in the Electoral College. That is, unless one’s conscience has to do with honoring the American system of electing our President. At any rate, pressure is being put on electors to be “faithless” to their commitments to honor the popular vote.
And that is when I came up with my plan. It is an improvement on Hillary’s campaign because it saves money by ignoring the costly campaign to win the votes of regular voters, who matter less than electors in the Electoral College. You see where this is going.
My plan is to win the hearts and votes of electors regardless of any popular vote. It is very costly to run television advertisements. It is costly to travel to rallies around the country. It is costly to put on a nominating convention. My plan is to focus on bribing electors to vote for me.
As I recall, it takes 270 electoral votes to win the Presidency. Let’s budget for $1,000,000 per electoral bribe to persuade electors to be “faithless.” I would use the budget to heelp these people of conscience feel good about voting for me as a matter of conscience. Who cares about nominated candidates and votes in the general election? Let’s let 270 electors “do the right thing” by benefiting themselves and America as well.
My advice, dear readers, is to look into becoming an elector in 2020. Then you can look forward to meeting me to discuss voting your conscience, unhampered by the votes of the deplorable voters in the general election. It will be worth your while.
Now I just have to come up with $270,000,000. I’d do almost anything for that amount of money. Let’s talk.
Hey, I know, you could contribute to my foundation. That’s the ticket.
Shootin' the Breeze 
Russian Allies
I have heard in the news that Russians have hacked into some voting machines across the nation and altered the outcome of our presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. It sounds very complicated and is even more nefarious if voting machines are not connected to computers into which to hack via the internet, also known, appropriately, as the worldwide web, which, as we know, was invented by Al Gore, who was cheated by hanging chads in Florida, prior to the involvement of Russia in our American presidential elections.
I, for one, am suspicious that the election fraud was not caused by computer hackers from afar but rather by Russian spies among us, who have wormed their way into the offices of election commissioners across the land, posing not only as Americans, but as election workers in the highest positions with access to counting ballots, or I should say, miscounting ballots.
These serious allegations do not trouble me. They teach me. In prior blog posts, I have announced my plan to skip traditional election campaigning to focus on obtaining votes in the electoral college from faithless electors. I have revealed my strategy of raising money by selling influence and using donations with strings attached to bribe electors to vote for me regardless of who wins in their respective states.
Now I see an alternate strategy. That is, I should recruit Russian spies and hackers to help me win the election in 2020.
I have a few years to learn the language in order to make friends with Russian spies and hackers. It is all falling into place.
“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.”
I am grateful to Hillary Clinton and her minions for explaining how to win an election. She can really teach.