Posted on 08/17/2019 6:17:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Democratic presidential candidates on stage Tuesday and Wednesday night are trying hard to woo primary voters so that, if they prevail, they can then make their case to the general population as the party’s nominee. But the ultimate deciders come 2020 might not be the ones who cast ballots in neighborhood polling stations.
There is a very good chance that the Electoral College will split evenly on Election Day, throwing the race into the House of Representatives. And just as with the popular vote, the majority does not choose the winner. Though Democrats control the House and are likely to hold onto it in 2020, the system currently favors Republicans and all but guarantees Trump will be re-elected.
An obscure constitutional provision spells out how an Electoral College tie is to be broken, with constitutional law professors and a small band of diehard political junkies just about the only ones versed in its details. An evenly split Electoral College between two major party nominees would be unprecedented in American history; the only times the House decided elections were in the case of Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams, when multiple parties competed and neither candidate got an Electoral College majority.
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democrat fantasy.
Or not. It’s never happened before. There is no valid reason to believe it will happen now. But we have to fulfill our daily quota of TDS or we will die.
NBC saying the Consitution is bad for “democracy”
Bad for “democracy”, good for the Republic.
Good. Because we don’t live in a democracy. We live in a Republic. A Constitutional Republic at that. Look into it.
Yes, the President needs to be elected by NY city, Chicago and downtown Los Angeles, all advised by some high-school dropout who lives in Beverly Hills because she is not afraid to instagram what should be her private assets.
Well, it give the Dems/Media their first time to actually read the Constitution.
or we will die
lol
There was a disputed election decided in the House. That’s how they made a deal to end reconstruction.
Kinda breathless, aren’t they. This will only happen if they can fraud enough.
Who’s friggin’ democracy? I don’t live in one.
People who have read the Constitution and can recall what they have read are die-hard political junkies.
The author forgot the Hayes/Tilden election. Also a tie is not needed for it to be thrown to the House. If no candidate gets 270 votes it will be thrown to the House. A strong third party candidate could make that happen.
bttt!
We’re not a democracy.
We live in a Republic. A Constitutional Republic at that.
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Or at least we used to, before Usurpation Day.
The only way they could know this is if they already know what the results are going to be due to vote fraud.
There is not a very good chance that the Electoral College will split evenly on Election Day. As a mathematician and former pollster, I would put the odds at well below 1%. That’s not something we need to worry about.
The house wins on a draw.
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