Posted on 10/23/2012 3:22:59 PM PDT by JediJones
All Obama has to do is win every state Kerry won in 2004 plus New Mexico and Ohio, and he ties Romney 269-269.
Note that, by current RCP polling averages, this remains plausible. Every safe or leaning state would stay put and the current swing states would be split along 2004 lines, except for Ohio.
That means, assuming no electors go "rogue" and vote for the other party, next year the new House picks the President and the new Senate picks the Vice President.
In the House, each state gets 1 vote among the top 3 EV vote-getters, virtually guaranteeing Romney wins easily with well over 26 states already having a majority of Republican representatives.
The Senate picks the V.P. by a simply majority of votes among the Senators from among the top 2 EV vote-getters. So to prevent Biden from becoming V.P., the Republicans need to pick up 4 Senate seats.
See 12th Amendment for details.
LOL first it was Obama was inevitable, now it’s a electoral college tie, I love leftist talking points.
Good thing Veeps have no real power
Leftwingtards laughed at the time. So did the Mittbots.
I'd love for it to happen to see how it really works ~ I see heavily armed troops protecting the Capitol building for one thing, and constant overflights of jet fighters with all the airports in the area shut down for the vote.
We have already laid in some extra canned goods and toilet paper
Do they? Are we sure?
Assuming none of the RINO's wants to be a media-loved hero
Now THAT would be fun!
I would expect to see Joe sent off on a lot of hand-shaking missions to places like Lower Slobbovia.
This scenario would be met with general rioting and mayhem, with a real potential for CW2. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen.
Yeah, I think it’s 33 or so now.
Another interesting thing is that this potential “tie” map would have represented a LOSS to Republicans in 2004. But all the states in it gained a cumulative 8 EVs since 2004, so the EV total moved up from 261 to 269. (Ohio itself lost 2 EVs, making it a little less of a pickup for the Dems.)
That’s what high income taxes and abortion’ll do to your blue areas on the map.
To prevent this from happening, and assuming only current RCP swing states are in play, Romney needs to flip at least one of the below swing states off the hypothetical blue map and onto the red:
Pennsylvania (20)
Ohio (18)
Michigan (16)
Wisconsin (10)
New Hampshire (4)
Or he can prevent it by winning 1 EV from Maine, which splits 2 of their EVs between their 2 districts.
And the next 21/2 months will be chaos as Obama and the Marxists try to complete a century's worth of destruction in record time. Be prepared for anything and everything. Mittens will have his hands full, "You Betcha".
It would serve Joe right. He would have to sit there for four years to break every tie, lol. Lie being in Purgatory for his sins.
It's good to be prepared for a disaster though, so keep your stocks up ;)
‘they (liberal media) will turn to each other and ask how could this be, no one they know would vote Republican.’
They will be just like Hillary and Obama, wondering how the death of the ambassador and 3 others could have occurred.
BTW, after discovering that we are down to a 9% response rate on polls I don't think any of them are of any use, but as the candidates themselves approach zero popularity ~ the poll trend should be that of a tie, which is what they are showing.
It's time for Romney to get out and ask Republicans to vote for him ~ he's pretty much spent all his time begging for undecided noncommited voters ~ and they're still uncommited and have not decided ~ so much for that crowd ~ they don't even vote.
While the Vice President would have a role as President of the Senate, he has only the executive powers assigned to him by the President. Romney would give him no such powers; Biden wouldn’t event get an office in the White House. So “Vie President” would be, for Biden, a largely ceremonial title. UNLESS - something should happen to President Romney; then we have an idiot as President.
Never going to happen. If there was a tie, a GOP elector would just happen to fall off a ladder or die in a car accident. Or else, they could apply the John Roberts treatment to a ‘wavering’ elector.
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