And regardless of who is nominated, ultimately the people don't choose the president, the electors do. Most states have laws binding their electors to the popular vote, but those laws could easily be changed between now and election day.This process would unfold exactly as the Constitution prescribes it, since the Founders were concerned that the popular majority might some day attempt to elect a lunatic to the office. They set up the Republic so the people could choose their state legislatures, and their state legislatures could choose the president. These legislatures could award the electoral college votes belonging to their state to most anyone they please, limited only by their own state's laws, which they could change.