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If the Red States were serious, they would boycott the Electoral College(no quorum)and force a vote in the House and Senate, with a default to Boehner as President. He is not much better but he is a Republican.


24 posted on 11/26/2012 4:01:44 PM PST by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat
If the Red States were serious, they would boycott the Electoral College(no quorum)and force a vote in the House and Senate, with a default to Boehner as President. He is not much better but he is a Republican.

There was a column about that last week in WND.

Today it appears with a note:

Editor’s note, Nov. 20, 2012: Since this column was posted it has been discovered that the premise presented about the Electoral College and the Constitution is in error. According to the 12th Amendment, a two-thirds quorum is required in the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College.

So I guess it won't work.

25 posted on 11/26/2012 4:04:50 PM PST by x
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat
If the Red States were serious, they would boycott the Electoral College(no quorum)and force a vote in the House and Senate, with a default to Boehner as President.

The collective resolve to take drastic measures against this tyranny hasn't yet coalesced to that point.

Give it til the mid-term elections and we'll see how far the red states are willing to go to stand up to this menace. None of us can say with any certainty at this point, just what form that resistance will take, but it's coming.

28 posted on 11/26/2012 4:27:12 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat
If the Red States were serious, they would boycott the Electoral College(no quorum)and force a vote in the House and Senate, with a default to Boehner as President.

That bears no resemblance to the election procedures set forth in the Constitution. The Electoral College requires no quorum - the quorum only comes in if the Electoral College fails to elect a President, and the vote goes to the House (there must be a quorum of states voting in the House). Moreover, even if it DID end up in the hands of the House, it would not "default to Boehner as President" - the House would be Constitutionally limited to choosing between the highest vote-getters in the Electoral College (e.g., Romney and Obama).

38 posted on 11/26/2012 4:59:59 PM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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