Posted on 09/28/2020 10:36:59 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has begun mobilizing Democrats for the possibility that neither Joe Biden nor President Donald Trump will win an outright Electoral College victory, a once-in-a-century phenomenon that would send the fate of the presidency to the House of Representatives to decide.
Under that scenario, which hasn’t happened since 1876, every state’s delegation gets a single vote. Who receives that vote is determined by an internal tally of each lawmaker in the delegation. This means the presidency may not be decided by the party that controls the House itself but by the one that controls more state delegations in the chamber. And right now, Republicans control 26 delegations to Democrats’ 22, with Pennsylvania tied and Michigan a 7-6 plurality for Democrats, with a 14th seat held by independent Justin Amash.
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Pelosi, in a Sunday letter to House Democrats, urged them to consider whether the House might be pulled into deciding who is president when determining where to focus resources on winning seats in November. This could lead to more concerted efforts by Democrats to win in states such as Montana and Alaska — typically Republican turf but where Democrats have been competitive statewide. In these states, Democratic victories could flip an entire delegation with a single upset House victory.
“The Constitution says that a candidate must receive a majority of the state delegations to win,” Pelosi wrote. “We must achieve that majority of delegations or keep the Republicans from doing so.”
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How fast can we muster the militias?
We’re watching the Democrat party in its death throes.
They have corrupted the process so severely that the structure of our nation’s government is getting ready to vomit them out of its mouth.
I think now they’re just beginning to recognize the shape of an iceberg directly ahead and that they are actually the Titanic. It almost gives me a palpable sense of the horror that faced the people on that doomed ship.
There is no evil that Nancy and the D party bosses won’t stoop to — in order to seize power again. And if they do, they’ll never give it up. Never
This is a little surprising. Aren’t the polls heavily in Biden’s favor? Maybe she doesn’t believe the polls.
PLASTICFACED PSYCHOPATH again? Can we parade around the likeness of her severed, bloody head for comedic. POTUS could do it. Have Pence ripping up the SOTU paper in the background. Get that camera angle perfect enemedia.
“This is a little surprising. Aren’t the polls heavily in Biden’s favor? Maybe she doesn’t believe the polls.”
Good point. They war-game for all possibilities and PSYOPS it out. OUR SUBHUMAN PSYCHOPATHS are 2nd to nobody.
Apparently, the polls are BS, huh PelosiIdiot? /s
There is no evil that Nancy and the D party bosses won’t stoop to — in order to seize power again. And if they do, they’ll never give it up. Never
TRUE. From the “most transparent” (remember that?)...NO the most EVIL administration in American history...we give you...JoeJoe.
Where’s Billy Bagpipes? They run out of ham sandwiches at The Department of SELECTIVE justice/injustice. Where’s Hairface Durhamsammy?
We are still reeling from Barack, Hillary, Joe, Comey, Brennan, Nancy, Valerie, Eric, Lois, Loretta, Rham, etc., etc....a cast of thousands.
This is OUR republic...approaching November 3, 2020.
Remember the 5th of November?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remember+the+5th+of+november&t=osx&ia=web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgnRDBp3JPA
READY - AIM - VOTE
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H L Menchen
Sounds like the PANdemIC
President Trump is living rent-free in the heads of the ‘rats. The Tuesday debate, if it happens, is gonna be hilarious.
They must have just found out this bad news. That darn constitution.
Elections have consequences.
Ha, ha, ha - there are no militias.
And if there were, we certainly wouldn't talk about them.
They don’t have a candidate what other choice do they have. Its not the election its the post election.
We don’t need the militias, yet. We need about 100-300 “Henry Bowman-type” patriots to help take out the trash, selectively.
This is just fund raiser letter show biz. The only time the House votes is in the case of a tie in the Electoral College.
Nevertheless, it is not a majority of House members that votes. It is representatives of state congressional delegations and the power to vote is based on which party holds the most seats in a given state NOT the whole House. Republicans win by that measure so this is a big nothingburger.
What an idiotic story. No way. The polls tell me that Biden is so far ahead that he will probably garner at least 350 electoral votes.
Between a totally false attempt at Impeachment-— Complaining over Ginsberg’s death-—fighting the building of the wall and trying to screw up the election-—The House of Representatives hasn’t accomplished a single thing in the past 3 years.
NOT any repairs or new infrastructure
Not any cleaning up the voter rolls
Not anything they campaigned on 4 years & 2 years go.
In the extreme case this did happen, the article is flawed. It makes it sound like she is encouraging Democrats to fight harder for seats because if they don’t, a house vote for president will go to the Rs. The implication is that the NEXT house would vote. Wrong. The current house would vote by state, and the Rs have the advantage
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