How Evan McMullin Could Win Utah and the Presidency
An interesting thought exercise and an explainer on how the U.S. election process works that a lot of Americans (including myself) probably didn&#x27;t realize. I appreciate that the author caveats most of their statements with how statistically unlikely each of the steps for McMullin to win are. I think FiveThirtyEight coverage of the election has been very good.<p>A side point that I took from this article is that some people talk about the potential for the U.S. to shift from a two major party system, however our election process strongly discourages it. As a result, it&#x27;s highly unlikely to ever happen. Since the process for electing a President and VP go to Congress if candidates fail to win at least 270 electoral votes, I feel that the American public would be less likely to vote if the chances of Congress picking the President, assuming 3 major candidates are likely to split the electoral college vote. However, maybe that would make people pay a lot closer attention to the down-ballot races for Congress...