What I would like most is for them to all pick Sanders. Others have said that we have the system we have, and it’d be disastrous to change the rules midstream: I agree. But the rules we have now say that these 538 people get to choose the President, and so them choosing the President is in no way a violation of the rules. In fact, it’s how the system was intended to work, and the reason for the electoral college in the first place (a reason which, due to the Founders’ naivety, they have never once fulfilled).
Of course, I know that a mass-flip of the majority to Sanders, or even to Clinton, is improbable in the extreme. What I would still be quite happy with, and which might even have some small but not completely negligible chance of happening, would be for enough Trump electors to go to some other, sane Republican, who is then chosen by the House.
In either of these scenarios, we surely end up on the fast track to amendment and abolition of the Electoral College before 2020. I view that as a feature, not a bug.
I voted for Clinton winning; it’s not impossible that 38 Trump electors would defect to Clinton. Not all the Trump electors are his fans; some are more-mainstream Republicans. As we know, some of them are appalled by the Trumpian circus of corruption (not to mention by the cozying up to Putin).
So it could happen, particularly as Clinton has passed the 2.7 million mark–that many more people voted for her than for Trump:
However, these are Republicans. Horrified by Trump as many of them may be, they may be unable to bring themselves to vote for a Democrat.
Escaping the potential threats of Trump-in-power is uppermost for me. Clinton got the most votes and would be a good President. But, yes, I would throw her under the proverbial bus (sorry, Hillary–it’s not fair, but there it is) if doing so would deliver us from the existential threat that is Trump.
… Hypothetical: what if Clinton asked all her electors to vote this way?-:
President: John McCain
Vice President: Hillary Clinton
Democratic electors wouldn’t like voting for the Other party any more than Republican electors would…but I believe many Democrats might be willing to do so to avoid the runaway freight train heading our way. And McCain isn’t an extremist–neither religious nor economic–he’s not as intent on fleecing wage-earners as Trump (judging by his Cabinet picks) will be. And he’s not in Putin’s pocket. That would mean a lot to many of the GOP electors.
I’m not a fan of McCain or of his positions, but he IS a war hero (despite what Trump says) and I would guess that if enough Clinton electors went over to him, many of the Trump electors would follow suit.
And yes, it wouldn’t be the fairest thing in the world for Clinton to find herself in the VP spot. But you know she’d work hard and would do good. (And it would be historic.)