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I urge you to contact your Representative and Senators and urge them to adopt legislation to eliminate the uncertainty that would exist if a presidential election was thrown into the House of Representatives (because no one got 270 electoral votes) and one of the three candidates being considered by the House were to die.
In particular, if you’re in Michigan’s 10th congressional district (in Michigan’s Thumb and parts of Macomb County) or if you’re a resident of Missouri, I would urge you to contact Congresswoman Candice Miller or Senator Roy Blunt, respectively, given that they chair the House and Senate committee with jurisdiction on the matter.
Not afraid of it, but it’s worth mentioning that Trump, Sanders and Clinton would all easily be the oldest first-term president ever elected.
The U.S. House is controlled by Republicans. If no one gets a majority of the electoral votes, the House will elect a Republican.
Bad news: If the House (one state one vote) in a deadlock, cannot choose a POTUS and the Senate (one vote per senator) cannot choose a VPOTUS (who, if chosen, would be acting POTUS), then it appears that the House, after March 4, 2017, can then choose a POTUS by one Congresscritter one vote. The Congress doing the voting would be the Congress elected in the 2016 election and any replacements due to deaths or resignations, very possibly a Demonrat Congress if the GOP fails to get its act together and keep its respective factions from insulting one another and forcing them to act like grownups before such divisions cause outright electoral disaster.
In that event, Congress, with a Demonratic majority, after March 4, could choose Comrade Grandpa, Comrade Grandma, Elizabeth Warren, or Moochelle or Noam Chomsky as POTUS and there would be nothing we could do about it. Note that the March 4 date (which was Inauguration Day until changed during FDR's time was never changed for Amendment Twenty purposes.
A Demonrat POTUS names a replacement for Scalia making the SCOTUS immediately no better than 5-4 leftist (with Roberts and Kennedy often joining the libs, Kennedy deciding to retire because of advancing age, Clarence Thomas not being physically immortal, etc. Re-education camps established soon thereafter. That Demonrat can also name young replacements for Ginsberg and Breyer, recharging those seats and leaving SCOTUS, and by extension under stare decisis, the entire federal judiciary in revolutionary hands for as long as any of us may live, even the young uns.
Then we conservatives will live every moment of our lives as we are ordered to live or be punished accordingly or run the amazingly dire risks and steep odds of armed revolution or sullen resistance.
Can we get our act together now, stop the circular firing squad, the #never whomever nonsense, the autoinsults, etc.? The alternative is likely All Hail Big Sister!
Oh, and, if Congress passes a bill to deal with this (assuming that it has the power to do so) Obozo can and will veto it. We certainly don’t have two-thirds of each house to override nor any visible backbone in either GOP caucus to take off time from servicing Wall Street to pass such a bill in the first place much less override a veto.