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To: sodpoodle

There is no way, in a 3-way race, that any of them gets 270 electoral college votes.


29 posted on 06/01/2008 4:50:07 PM PDT by Lucas McCain (No relation to John McCain)
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To: Lucas McCain

It could work if HRC drops her bomb on Obama as she leaves the Dem party. Then it would be more of a two-way.


30 posted on 06/01/2008 4:58:10 PM PDT by OldEagle
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To: Lucas McCain
There is no way, in a 3-way race, that any of them gets 270 electoral college votes.

Where you've been in 1992? Clinton won the Presidency with 39% vote, that was one of the reasons most Republicans considered him an "illegitimate President". Slick Willy never got over this.

40 posted on 06/01/2008 6:40:19 PM PDT by Anticommie
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To: Lucas McCain

****There is no way, in a 3-way race, that any of them gets 270 electoral college votes.*****

So?????????????? See Nancy Pelosi’s gig.

http://people.howstuffworks.com/electoral-college5.htm

Today, a candidate must receive 270 of the 538 votes to win the election. In cases where no candidate wins a majority of electoral votes, the decision is thrown to the House of Representatives by virtue of the 12th Amendment. The House then selects the president by majority vote with each state delegation receiving one vote to cast for the three candidates who received the most electoral votes.

Here are the two elections that were decided by the House of Representatives:

1801: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, both Democrat-Republicans, received the same number of electoral votes, despite the fact that Burr was running as a vice presidential candidate, not for the presidency. Following 36 successive votes in the House, Jefferson was finally elected president.
1825: As mentioned above, Andrew Jackson received a majority of the popular vote over John Quincy Adams, but neither man received a 131-vote majority of electoral votes needed at the time to claim the presidency. Adams won the House vote on the first ballot.


46 posted on 06/02/2008 3:26:14 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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