Posted on 07/26/2012 11:47:52 AM PDT by ElPaseo
An Electoral College tie.
It's the white whale of American elections: elusive, mythical and never realized. But could it finally happen this year?
The likelihood that President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will each net 269 electoral votes in November, instead of the 270 needed to win, is actually not so farfetched -- and for close observers of the Electoral College system, a tie would set off a wave of constitutional and political mayhem that would make the 2000 Florida recount seem like a tidy affair.
Check out the CNN electoral map and calculator
Election results in key states would immediately be subject to legal challenges. Electors, normally an anonymous batch of party insiders elected to ratify each state's winner with their electoral votes, would be lobbied to change their votes by friends, neighbors and political leaders.
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Fine by me so long as the GOP holds the House.
Another reason to make sure Romney wins by a huge amount. Don’t allow Democrats to make this another fight that tears this country apart further.
I think it would be lopsided because the number of rats in California, Illinois, Mass and NY delegations against a big polarity of republicans in the remainder.
Any tie is a win for Obama and the Democrats. In fact, any win for the Republicans that is even close to a tie is a win for the Democrats.
I just call it bad karma for mittens after his tie in Michigan.
From which congress (old or new) would a house be, were it to vote for president?
Only in an election where the dead rise up and vote along with the 12-50 million illegas as well as the dual-stated Democrats, felons, Unionistas, regular Democrats in non-ID states, etc.
We all know the Democrat Motto: “If you can’t vote at least THREE OR FOUR times for ‘our guy,’ you don’t deserve the free crap we give you in your paycheck for doing nothing.”
Dont blame the Democrats...
heyre not the ones who forced Willard on us...
even if he is one of them...
Even in the extremely unlikely chance the Rats take over the House from the Nov. elections it won’t make any difference. The GOP will control the House if any Presidential vote were required.
That's all part of the progressive plan.
Count on it.
Coming soon from the producers of "Colonial Insurrection" and "War Between The States"
I assume you mean lopsided for Romney. All those ‘rats in California and New York won’t help. California just gets one vote here. There should be many more states with republican majorities. Someone should do the actual work and check what it would look like. Of course, the greatest danger is some stupid ass electoror would pull a John Roberts and vote against his state. Also, I think some states are not winner-take-all. A lot of variables here.
We need a lot less concentration on the democrats and a lot more concentration on fixing our own party.
“Another reason to make sure Romney wins by a huge amount. Don’t allow Democrats to make this another fight that tears this country apart further.”
Haven’t you heard? You’re supposed to vote for a third party candidate that has no hope of winning so we can keep a clear conscience and teach the GOP a lesson. Get with the program...just as diogenesis about it.
If the House has to step in and elect Romney, it won’t be the bloody shirt of Bush v. Gore. It will be an entire bloody laundry for Democrats.
As the article points out, each state delegations gets one vote, and the GOP currently controls 33 state delegations, while the Dems only control 16. So if the election were an electoral tie, Romney would win. The question would be the VP election, as that is decided by the Senate. Since it would be the new Senate voting, it would depend upon if the GOP took the majority after the election.
The real polling must be pretty bad for Zero if now the best they can hope for is a tie.
If you mean that the “tie breaker mode” House would be even more lopsidedly GOP than the “individual members voting” House is, then, yup. The GOP would not only have to lose the majority but also lose perhaps 30 additional seats to lose its “state delegations” majority, although I haven’t tallied the states one by one. (Presumably there may be a handful that would be “ties.”)
Sounds fun to speculate about... in theory.
But in reality, in the event of a tie Obama would demand recounts in one of the close states Romney won until he finally got a count showing that he got more votes. Then they’d stop counting, certify the results, and declare Obama the winner.
It would be a replay of the Minnesota Senate race from a few years back, which Franken finally “won” against Coleman.
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