Sorry this may be common knowledge to everyone -- but as a Brit I had no idea. This chap can cast his vote against Bush when the electors convene even if thats not what the results of the poll in west virginia?
To: propertius
They can, but it's highly unusual and unlikely...
2 posted on
10/27/2004 9:18:53 AM PDT by
danneskjold
(All balloons, what the hell! There's nothing falling! What the f%#@ are you guys doing up there?)
To: propertius
Rueters tries to write another story about a "close" election. Read the tea leaves people, this one is over.
3 posted on
10/27/2004 9:19:41 AM PDT by
WoodstockCat
(DNC and John Kerry: Forgers R' Us)
To: propertius
But should Democrats recapture the Senate,
about as likely to happen as it's going to be a 269-269 EC vote.
4 posted on
10/27/2004 9:20:22 AM PDT by
deport
(Texas...... Early Voting in person Oct. 18 thru Oct 29..... vote early and take someone with you)
To: propertius
He could, yes. It's never decided an election, though, but if the final result was 270/268 and he flipped, it could happen.
5 posted on
10/27/2004 9:20:34 AM PDT by
RockinRight
(Bush's rallies look like World Series games. Kerry's rallies look like Little League games.)
To: propertius
Could somebody post a plausible tie scenario. I had one where Kerry takes the Left coast, Northeast, Wisconsin, Michigan, Hawaii and Florida. Bush takes everything else and it's 269-269. But that doesn't account for the split electoral vote in Maine.
8 posted on
10/27/2004 9:23:42 AM PDT by
Callahan
To: propertius
...3.25 percent chance ... Exaggerated precision alert.
9 posted on
10/27/2004 9:24:03 AM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: propertius
>>This chap can cast his vote against Bush when the electors convene even if thats not what the results of the poll in west virginia?
Seriously, he can, but he better hope nobody knows where he lives.
I'm not joking here.
10 posted on
10/27/2004 9:25:00 AM PDT by
RobRoy
(You only "know" what you experience. Everything else is mere belief.)
To: propertius
I may be a little confused about the process but I thought that if there was a tie in the electoral vote the House of Representatives will, not might, choose the next President. Reuters uses the phrase "could mean that the House of Representatives would choose the next President" as if it is optional.
Second, in the event of a tie and the House chooses the President and the Senate chooses the Vice President, is that House and Senate as they are on Nov 1 before the election, or on Nov 3 after the election?
17 posted on
10/27/2004 10:31:11 AM PDT by
ops33
(Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
To: propertius
Oh God how pathetic. How do I sign up for this loser parade?
To: propertius
What if the Senate itself is tied in that scenario???
31 posted on
10/27/2004 11:28:46 AM PDT by
Nataku X
(Get Informed of the Polls: http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=4176)
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