[Daveinyork]

If the supremes had not decided that case, we would have had a constitutional crisis, and perhaps civil war.

[Jim Noble]

If the supremes had not decided that case, we would have had a constitutional crisis

Why would following the Constitution have caused a "constitutional crisis"?

[Alberta's Child]

I don’t agree necessarily agree with that. If you go back through U.S. history it wasn’t all that uncommon for presidential elections to end up in Congress because of Electoral College issues. We’ve grown accustomed to “normal” elections only because we now have a two-party system where it is almost impossible for a third-party candidate to win even a single state — let alone enough states to prevent another candidate from getting a majority of the electoral votes.