Hard to tell them apart anyway. All I can see as a result is rich lesbians getting married and honeymooning on their tax cut.
Interesting idea. Does the lame duck session select the new president or the newly elected representatives? I skimmed through and didn't see that answer. I assume it's the ones on the way out, though.
Would be the lame duck. House picks the Pres, Senate picks the VP.
If the Senate ends up being tied, the seat will go to a Democrat. If it doesn't, I'd wager the Senate will just nominate whomever Romney's runningmate is. VP doesn't have any power anyway.
It's actually the new House and Senate that picks, not the lame duck.What Happens if there is a Tie in the Electoral College?
It's really hard for me to come up with a possible scenario where it ends up tied though, so we probably won't have to worry about it.
It's already happened more than once in our history where neither candidate failed to garner the requisite number of electoral college votes. Thomas Jefferson defeated Aaron Burr by House vote. Twenty years later, John Quincy Adams defeated Andrew Jackson by House vote. It nearly happened in the Bush vs. Gore election, where if a state with 3 electoral votes had gone for Gore, it would have been Gore 269, Bush 268 (270 being the number to clinch). Also keep in mind that Maine and Nebraska divide their electoral college votes by district, and therefore can be split between candidates. In most states, electoral college delegates aren't bound to statewide results either. Theoretically they can support whoever they want for president, irrespective of democratic outcomes. That's actually happened a few times, although never at a sufficiently significant level to alter the outcome of an election.
And, as I understand it, Congress is under absolutely no obligation to elect either candidate. If there's a tie in November, Congress could make John Boehner President or any 35+ year old native born American citizen who has not served 2 terms as president previously.
Another discussion but Electoral College delagates are under no federal law obligation to vote for anyone except the person the want to vote for. :lol: Some states have laws that punish them for not voting as expected from what I've been told.
The House of Representatives would only be allowed to choose among the top three finishers in electoral votes.
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