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To: MNJohnnie

UN-Possible! If that did happen, the state of ‘tie’ would not last very long. We went through that back in 2000. This was when the parties got along together far better than now. And still, it was a full out power battle. People want this to be OVER and resolved on or near Election Day.


9 posted on 10/06/2016 10:23:34 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell
You are misunderstanding. The tie would be 269 to 269 in the electoral college. That's quite possible. Nate Silver rates the odds of it happening at 2% I think.

Then the election goes to the House.

17 posted on 10/06/2016 10:37:42 AM PDT by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: lee martell

If it was a tie, the Clintonistas would bribe or blackmail one of the Trump electors into voting for her. Said elector would live a very comfortable life in some distant country under an assumed name.


22 posted on 10/06/2016 10:40:02 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: lee martell
People want this to be OVER and resolved on or near Election Day

Well then, "people" can go screw. That's not our system.

49 posted on 10/06/2016 11:46:00 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Rise)
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