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The Electoral College follows (usually) what the majority of their population base vote for in a Presidental election. Third party candidates have been voted for by electors in the past, but that was before my lifetime (late 1960s and early 1970s), with the last ones being the Southern Segregationists supporting a third party against Johnson or Nixon. When the South voted third party against the Civil Rights Movement.
California has made attempts to remove our gerrymandered districts with third party oversight committees and the like for local politics. But after so many generations of people being Republican or Democrat, or since 2001 Red or Blue....things are getting tough to break, as it is starting to sound like sport team loyalists rather than polices that matter. I've seen both sides on Facebook and it is getting nasty both ways and both side declare the other to be idiots, uneducated, or should be sterilized for the good of the future. It is getting bad.
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