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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Wait til he does the Thrid Term thing—Cancels the November election. He do not have a president but a child king—an man who would not be president save for his black skin and “White Guilt”. We are not done with him yet.


11 posted on 05/15/2014 11:02:26 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Wait til he does the Thrid Term thing—Cancels the November election. He do not have a president but a child king—an man who would not be president save for his black skin and “White Guilt”. We are not done with him yet.
The elections won’t be cancelled. That would throw the Congress into a complete turmoil, with no congressmen and only 66 Senators having a mandate to sit. But "what difference does it make?”

The POTUS is not popularly elected. It is the Electoral College which elects the POTUS - and a popular election isn’t necessary to select the electors. The state legislatures can do it - and it is only a tradition which ties that selection to a popular election. Therefore the mere expedient of canceling the election on the first Tuesday in November, 2016 would not actually cancel the presidential election. The Congress does set the date for the vote of the electoral college, and that would be subject to a presidential veto - but, especially if the Republicans take the Senate, they can set that date before Obama would be willing to tip his hand, in an uncontroversial clean bill. Then there wouldn’t be any excuse for vetoing it - and it would be a scandal if he did.


23 posted on 05/15/2014 3:34:17 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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