Help me out with this scenario and win a carrot: A twilight zone order of succession

7 of 11

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Fri Jan-11-08 01:11 AM
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Help me out with this scenario and win a carrot: A twilight zone order of succession

Bloomberg enters the race with Al gore as independents , Obama allies with Clinton, and McCain takes along Guiliani. We have a near three way tie and no one gets a majority count in the electoral college. The college defaults and the vote goes to congress. But the candidates have so many friends there that they can't break a tie either. Swearing in day comes and goes and the Presidency goes to Pelosi or does it.

Now Let's take it a bit further: Say Pelosi and Robert Byrd both lose or retire. Now we don't have a Prez or Vice Prez or Speaker or Pro-tempore. The cabinet is now vacant because they have all resigned as expected. So who the hell minds the store?

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merwin

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Fri Jan-11-08 01:13 AM
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1. Ralph Wiggum

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7 of 11

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Fri Jan-11-08 01:17 AM
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2. Oh come on

Give it a try.

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Kutjara

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Fri Jan-11-08 01:17 AM
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3. A poorly understood provision of the Constitution would come into effect...

...and result in Britney Spears being crowned Queen of the Kingdom of America.

You have been warned!

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7 of 11

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Fri Jan-11-08 01:21 AM
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4. Or it could mean

That we can never really have a popular three party system.

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Kutjara

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Fri Jan-11-08 01:25 AM
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5. It would certainly make a huge difference to US politics...

...if coalition government was a real possibility. It's about the only way I can think of that minority interests can realistically have a national voice. Otherwise, we're doomed forever to portmanteau politics, where we end up voting for a large amount of what we don't want, just to get a little of what we do.

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Lasher

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Fri Jan-11-08 01:35 AM
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6. Coin toss.

If it's good enough for the Superbowl it's good enough for anything.

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CK_John

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Fri Jan-11-08 01:41 AM
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7. In the House each state gets 1 vote when voting for president. The GOP controls the most states. n/t

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Double T

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Fri Jan-11-08 01:50 AM
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8. Why did YOU have to give US this nightmare when I was just about to go to sleep?

Thanks a lot!!

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MonkeyFunk

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Fri Jan-11-08 01:56 AM
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9. In such an absurd scenario (Gore's not running!)

the House would elect McCain.

Each state gets one vote, and most states have a majority of Republican representatives.

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