@DCGoldPants Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 13 hours ago, Cooked Crack said: Funny, I've been hearing the RFK stands for Republicans for Kennedy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Evil Genius Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 Kari Lake is the right amount of stupid to appeal to Arizona Republicans...and she's going to enjoy Sinema siphoning off the Gallego vote if Sinema runs as an independent. Crazy times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 Good luck, Dodger trash. 😁 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 4 hours ago, Cooked Crack said: Garvey: "Hey, if Herschel Walker can do it..." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 At least Herchel had a population that was overwhelmingly red. The GOP in California is outregistered 2 to 1. 😆 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FootballZombie Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 That's the kind of situation that ends w/ hands being thrown across the dinner table. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 The horrific nightmare scenario where Congress picks our next president One thing I worry about is a contingent presidential election. That situation arises when no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes (270 of 538). Should this situation arise, Congress gets to pick the next president and vice president. Yes, you read correctly, the 535 folks whom 80 percent of Americans dislike make these momentous decisions. Yes, these are the same folks who nearly shut down the government, who refuse to fix the broken immigration system and who have run up more than $33 trillion in debt. And who can forget Jan. 6, 2021, when some legislators refused to recognize states’ electoral slates and sparked a riot? What could go wrong? My smart readers might now rub their chins and reply, “Well, how likely is that scenario?” Some of them might even point out that there has not been a contingent election since 1824, when John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay split the votes. True, but the odds of it occurring are growing. Landslide victories (think Ronald Reagan vs. Walter Mondale in 1984 or Richard Nixon vs McGovern in 1972) are growing rarer. Four of the past six presidential elections have been very close. In 2020, had 44,000 voters in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin picked Trump instead of Biden we would have had a tied election (269 to 269). Come the 2024 election, the chances of a contingent election may go higher still, according to a recent report from United to Protect Democracy. The reason is that No Labels, an organization that says its mission is devoted to bipartisan problem-solving, is threatening to run a third-party ticket. Whether they select Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) or New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) or some other heterodox figures to run, you can be sure it will be a serious ticket. Why? Because No Labels is a serious organization. They created the Problem Solvers Caucus in the House, and they are very good at fundraising. Already, the group has secured space for its “unity” ticket on the 2024 ballot in 11 states. And let’s not forget that there is public demand for something other than a Biden-Trump rematch. More than half of voters do not want Biden or Trump. If No Labels pulls the trigger on this effort, it will be the most real third-party run in decades. For sure, I am sympathetic to their objective. But I am worried about the probability of it failing and the cost thereof. Which brings me back to a contingent election. It seems highly unlikely that No Labels would outright win 270 electoral votes. There are just too many Americans who cannot imagine voting for anyone other than Trump or Biden. Alabama, Texas, Massachusetts and California — there are plenty of states where their choice for president is going to be whoever is on Team Elephant or Team Donkey. Thus, the duty falls to Congress, and unfortunately, there is no law that specifies exactly how Congress should carry out its duty. All we have is the 12th Amendment, which has only broad procedural directives. If you thought the January 2021 counting of electoral votes was a trainwreck, you have not seen anything yet. Legislators would have all sorts of incentives for mischief. A partisan majority in the House could, for example, choose its Speaker, then fail to decide who is the president by Jan. 20, which means the Speaker could become president, per the succession statute. Or, to take another possibility, a determined minority might thwart the House from choosing a Speaker, which leaves it unable to even take up the business of selecting a president. Meanwhile, the Senate might slow walk its choice of the vice president should it be controlled by the same party as the House. Or if the Senate is led by a different party from the House, the upper chamber might rush through its choice of vice president so that he could ascend to the presidency. (The vice president is second in line and ahead of the Speaker.) Things get even crazier if the Senate president pro tempore decides she wants to be president. While the House dithers she might try to scuttle Senate action on the vice president and get herself elevated to the presidency come Jan. 20. Click on the link for more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 Can we at least wait until 2024 @China? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) Fwiw..it's unlikely to matter for Dems. 3rd party isn't winning electoral votes that would have gone Democrat anyways. Edited October 10, 2023 by The Evil Genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 22 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said: Can we at least wait until 2024 @China? I'd be happy if we adopted a system similar to Australia where you can't run for office until 6 months before the election. Enough of the continuous election cycle. Politicians are always campaigning. They should be spending more time governing and less time campaigning. 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 Unfortunately, most of the governing they do is campaigning. See, e.g., Tuberville, Tommy. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 35 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said: . . . thus displaying how he thinks he can gain traction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Captain Wiggles Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Cooked Crack said: Guess she's out of contention for Trump's pick for VP. Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cooked Crack Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 (edited) Wrong thread Edited October 11, 2023 by Cooked Crack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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@DCGoldPants Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 12 hours ago, Cooked Crack said: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ball Security Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 23 hours ago, Cooked Crack said: He’s looking to serve office for the first time at 76. Okay. Was Claude Osteen not interested in running? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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