THE INCREDIBLY TAINTED ELECTION.

President Obama held what probably was the last press conference on his term in office. In it he asserted again that Putin hacked into the DNC and Jon Podesta's emails. He avoided the question about Hillary Clinton's assertion that Comey's letter and the Russian hacks turned the election. President Obama wanted to assert the integrity of the votes and vote counts. As the Comforter in Chief, he tried to reassure the press and the American public that Trump would change when the heavy burden of the presidency descended on him. On the electoral college, he said that Democrats would one day win where the votes mattered. There was no mention of Clinton winning the election by 3 million votes. Slate felt that this was not the time for the No Drama Obama but I personally didn't know what he could have done.

Today state authorities around the country are ascertaining how much the Voter ID laws affected the election. Rightwing websites noted the problems in Detroit but blamed them on Democratic officials. As we have said at least 75,000 votes weren't counted there. Another 160,000 votes were not counted in Florida.

As for the "faithless " electors. The lone Republican holdout was threatened  that if he didn't vote for Trump his wife and daughters would be raped. Yesterday, the right tried to smear him by saying he was not a 9-11 first responder. The "Hamilton" elector are Clinton electors who want to encourage their Republican colleagues not to vote for Trump but another Republican. It would take 37 courageous people to change the election.

Intresting fact--16 Democratic electors did not vote for JFK in 1960 but Harry Byrd. Previously to that was 6 in the election of 1885. By and large "faithless" electors amount to 1 every presidential election. 

@9 states have binding laws on the electors. The recent case brought in Colorado by two Democratic electors was dismissed but Lawrence Lessig says the only laws that govern this are national and the constitution. 

In the case of Democratic elector Michael Boca, a homer Marine, he faces a fine ,a year in county jail and was told most recently perjury for violating his oath as elector. He claims he has been in touch with Republican electors who are brainstorming on whether it should be Kasich,Mitt Romney, Colin Powell or Evan McMullin, the homer CIA agent. Throughout the week, the number mentioned is 20 to 30. But the GOP is monitoring their Facebook accounts.

The odds of another bizarre switch in this election are slim.

But make no mistake, this is a very tainted election that questions the legitimacy of Trump. He does not have any mandate, something the Democrats have to stress over and over again.