Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
Would that make a difference?
Make a difference for what? AFAIK, no one has done an official certification yet, so there are still no official votes pledged to Trump, but there is no doubt that he secured a majority of the vote in enough states that he'll get the 270 he needs even if he does end up losing Michigan (which is very unlikely, there isn't going to be a recount there and it would be close to conspiracy to "uncover" another 13k votes for Clinton and none for Trump).

The "Electoral College" votes have already been tallied, and Trump got to 270 before Clinton did. I'm willing to admit that I'm confused about the process.
Each state awards its total number of electors to whoever received the plurality of the public vote for their state (except for Nebraska and Maine, who do a mixed FPTP/Proportional award for their electors). The state election board, or Secretary of State or whoever's office is ultimately in charge of the election apparatus in each state, will certify their final tallies over the next few weeks and select one of the campaign's panels of electors to represent that state for the Electoral College. Sometime in December (the second week of December?) the electors officially cast their votes for President and Vice President, presumably in accordance with the party that put them up and with the public vote of their state.

No electoral votes have been awarded to Trump (nor will they be until December). No panel of electors has been officially chosen yet either, AFAIK. But there is no real doubt as to what either of those is going to finally be, nationally or in Michigan. I don't know what your news source is which claimed Michigan's electoral votes have been awarded to Trump. Knowing you, it probably didn't say anything of the sort and you're just spinning your own mental narrative like usual. If it did say that, then it either finally decided to call Michigan for Trump and you misunderstood or you need to find better news sources.