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 partys 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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Drama
I wish I was strong in math. It’s my one true weakness. I have a very high IQ but math alludes me.
Ain’t gonna happen
Bingo!
NBC doesn’t want a Constitutional Republic...They want a mob rule democracy...
Not going to happen because Fox News Poll tells us a fence post with a D attached to it could beat President Trump, and, besides, the whole country is about to experience a depression. Plus, racism . . .
Well, the second thing. Right after the guns.
Seems like a “free” press is already gone...
True enough. The Fake News Media does not employ actual journalists anymore. They’re all freelance government operatives.
If the Democrats want to win under these hypothetical conditions they need to get more votes in moderate and conservative states - thereby carrying more states.
Too bad they don't have even one moderate or conservative they can run as a candidate.
“...math alludes me...”
So does English. (s/b eludes, not alludes)
The constitution is bad when it stop socialists winning.
Its great when socialists get to reinterpret it to favor themselves though.
Huh????
Here’s something else that could occur in 2020: the demwit party might turn patriotic. Probability? Quite low. A lot of things COULD happen. That is the biggest truism I’ve heard since “It is what it is.”
The House votes by States. California gets one vote, just like Wyoming.
2020 is going to be a friggin’ BLOW OUT, LOL!
In his Second Term, I am BEGGING PDJT to stack the courts and put EVERY mechanism into place that is within his power as President to grind these Anti-American PUKES to DUST!
MAGA! KAG!
That one didn’t actually go to the House, but rather to a commission that decided which electoral votes were legitimate.
As I recall the commission had 5 House, 5 Senate, and 5 SCOTUS members.
That’s different from no candidate receiving a majority of electoral votes.
another idea would be to repeal the 17th amendment (and the 16th!) and then abolish the commie-clown House
It sounds like they’re anticipating Republicans regaining the House...or at least a majority of delegations.
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