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John Smith
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Hallelujah There is a chance, albeit a very slim chance, that neither Clinton nor Thrump will be the next US president. There is a possibility that neither Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump could win the US presidential election, says Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution
While the latest national polling is showing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump neck-and-neck, Mr Whalen, who also worked on several past Republican campaigns, said the unpopularity of both candidates could lead to some interesting results
Mr Whalen said there was a chance a third party candidate could pick up enough votes in the state of Utah and "start a process that could lead to genuine chaos".
He said as well as the usual suspects of key states to keep an eye on during election day Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida the Republican candidate, Mr Trump, would also have to hold onto every state carried by Mitt Romney in 2012.
"Where that would be troubling him would be Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Utah," he said.
"But in terms of getting to 270, besides holding on to the 206 he needs to pick up the following, if he wins Florida and Ohio he is now up to 253 he is only 17 electoral votes away.
"If he won the state of Pennsylvania, which has 20 electoral votes, that would do the trick right there, but he's struggling in Pennsylvania so now he's looking at Michigan, he's looking at Wisconsin and other states.
"A very curious state would be the state of Utah, which almost always go Republican I think it last voted for a Democrat in 1964.
"You can almost always put six electoral votes in the Republican side."
Mr Whalen said right now the Mormon independent candidate, Evan McMullin, could instead pick up those six electoral votes in Utah.
"And start a process could lead to genuine chaos in terms of another candidate getting to the requisite 270 electoral votes they need to win the presidency."
Could McMullin steal Utah away from Trump?
Mr Whalen said in the case of Mr McMullin winning the Utah votes, then the matter would have to be decided by the House of Representatives.
"What the McMullin campaign would hope is this, that once he got into that vote, because the constitution of the United States dictates that the top three earners of electoral votes are considered by the house, and McMullin would be part of this calculation," he said.
"What his campaign would hope would be that they would get to the House and suddenly people would be thinking well, we don't like Donald Trump, we don't think he's suitably presidential.
"Hillary Clinton is under federal investigation right now, if she's elected to office there could be a constitutional crisis let's start voting for McMullin."
This, he said, could all result in an election season where neither Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton end up in the White House.
"When you think about it in that it could be possible to actually win the White House carrying just one state of the 50, but that is how the incredibly unlikely scenario would play out."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-02/us-election:-could-both-clinton-and-trump-lose/7988484 Best everbody start praying now ... deluded and atheists alike. 
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