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Anonymous

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While that rings a sickening sound- it could be hilarious to see some of you old died in the wool cultist neocons if it happened.. :wink: :lol:

Electoral College Tie Could Put Pelosi in White House

It’s within the realm of possibility that the Electoral College vote could end in a tie this election year — and that would most likely put a Democrat in the White House.

The question is, which Democrat?

Political analyst Dick Morris mapped the presidential election in the September issue of Newsmax magazine and counted 186 delegates for Democrat Barack Obama, with 83 others “leaning Obama,” for a total of 269 electoral votes. He counted 130 delegates for McCain, with 72 “leaning McCain,” for a total of 202 votes.

But Morris also counted 67 “tossup” delegates, and if the McCain-Sarah Palin ticket — which has been rising in the polls of late — were to snare those delegates, the Republican ticket would also end up with 269 votes.

The number of electoral delegates needed to win is 270.

In the event of a tie, provisions of the 12th and 20th Amendments would kick in. One provision stipulates that if no candidate receives a majority of the votes, the House of Representatives must go into session immediately to vote for president.

But in that case, each state delegation would receive only one vote, regardless of the number of House members from that state. California and New York would each have one vote, as would Wyoming and Delaware.

In the current House, there are 27 states with a Democratic majority in their House delegations, and 21 with a Republican majority. The delegations of two states, Arizona and Kansas, are equally divided between Democrats and Republicans.

The House as currently divided, then, would almost assuredly select Obama as president.

However, if the GOP were to pick up Arizona and Kansas plus two other states, each party would have 25 states and the vote would be deadlocked again.

At the same time, the House is attempting to select the president, the Senate would be required to go into session to select the vice president, with each senator receiving one vote and a majority of 51 votes required for selection.

The current Senate has a paper-thin Democratic edge, so it’s possible the Senate could also be deadlocked in selecting the vice president.

According to the Constitution, if the House cannot select a president in time for the Jan. 20 inauguration, then the vice president-elect would serve as president “until a president shall have qualified.”

But what if the Senate was indeed deadlocked and there was no vice president-elect?

According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, the sitting speaker of the House would “act as president” until either the House chose a president or the Senate chose a vice president.

With the Democrats expected to hold on to a majority in the House, that “sitting Speaker” would likely be the current speaker — Nancy Pelosi
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Sandhusker

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OH, GAWD! You just about made coffee come out of my nose with that headline! That would be a sign that the end was near, and she sure would hasten that end.
 

VanC

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Pelosi has five children. According to her own party, that makes her a bad mother, and disqualifies her from becoming vice-president, let alone president. :lol:
 

kolanuraven

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VanC said:
Pelosi has five children. According to her own party, that makes her a bad mother, and disqualifies her from becoming vice-president, let alone president. :lol:


They're grown kids...not sucklings
 
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VanC said:
Pelosi has five children. According to her own party, that makes her a bad mother, and disqualifies her from becoming vice-president, let alone president. :lol:

I'll probably get massacred for repeating this...

But God hates a coward :wink:

We were having a discussion on whether she had any positive qualities for the job--I heard an old cowboy the other day make a comment about Palin ----he said " she'd work out in my herd as she sure shows a strong fertility factor" :wink: :lol: :p
 

VanC

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kolanuraven said:
VanC said:
Pelosi has five children. According to her own party, that makes her a bad mother, and disqualifies her from becoming vice-president, let alone president. :lol:


They're grown kids...not sucklings

True, but how old were they when she started her political career? Besides, that's not the point. The point is that the idea that Palin should be disqualified because she has young children is a slap in the face to every working mother in this country, not to mention being the height of hypocrisy coming from the party that claims to have led the charge for women's rights. :roll: Why do you think this is happening?:

"Before the Democratic National Convention in late August, Obama held an 8-point lead among white women voters, 50 percent to 42 percent, according to the Washington Post/ABC News poll. After the Republican convention in early September, McCain was ahead by 12 points among white women, 53 percent to 41 percent, that survey found."

Not only that, the Washington Post/ABC News poll historically leans to the left, meaning the shift could be even greater than what they say. We won't really know till election day, and a lot can happen between now and then, but only a fool would deny the obvious trend that has taken place over the past couple of weeks.

As I said in another thread, the attacks on Palin and her family are having a huge effect. Like it or not, there are millions of voters out there who identify with Palin in one way or another. They see the attacks on her as attacks on themselves, and they're not likely to vote for the person or party that they see as the attackers. So the Obama backers, especially the painfully out-of-touch elite media, had better learn to shut their pieholes, or their man is going down.
 

Sandhusker

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kolanuraven said:
VanC said:
Pelosi has five children. According to her own party, that makes her a bad mother, and disqualifies her from becoming vice-president, let alone president. :lol:


They're grown kids...not sucklings

So now the Democrat party's position is that mothers with young children should keep their asses at home where they belong? They've got no business working out of the home?
 

jigs

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using the mother / politician card is a bit irrelevant for me. Palin, it appears was a bit more of a mom. Pelosi, has been a career politician for some time. it is my guess that servants raised her kids for her. so really, what kind of a mom could she have been.
 

Larrry

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While that rings a sickening sound- it could be hilarious to see some of you old died in the wool cultist neocons if it happened..

Yup, the terrorists, commies, socialists, marxists and OT would be happy.
 

TexasBred

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Amazes me that Pelosi who claims to be a "cradle Catholic" does not know the teachings of the Catholic Church on birth control and abortion. I believe Cardinal Egan, politely gave her a crash catechism lesson a few days after his idiotic statment along this line.
 
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