{"id":56103,"date":"2016-10-24T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T16:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fivethirtyeight_how_evan_mcmullin_could_win_utah_and_the_presidency\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T16:13:06","slug":"fivethirtyeight_how_evan_mcmullin_could_win_utah_and_the_presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56103","title":{"rendered":"[Fivethirtyeight] How Evan McMullin Could Win Utah And The Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unlikely, but far from impossible<br \/>The idea that an independent candidate could swoop in to win has been largely dismissed, on the grounds that any conservative-leaning third-party candidate would be more likely to hurt Trump than Clinton, thus making a Clinton victory more likely. But McMullin may have one advantage that other second-tier candidates do not: Utah.<\/p>\n<p>His path to the presidency basically looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>1.Win Utah<br \/>\n2.Deadlock the Electoral College<br \/>\n3.Win in the House<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-evan-mcmullin-could-win-utah-and-the-presidency\">Read it all<\/a> [h\/t AS Haley]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unlikely, but far from impossibleThe idea that an independent candidate could swoop in to win has been largely dismissed, on the grounds that any conservative-leaning third-party candidate would be more likely to hurt Trump than Clinton, thus making a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56103\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,616,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}