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July 07, 2004

The Next President and Vice-President: George Bush and... John Edwards?

Best of the Web has a fun piece about the very-real possibility of an electoral college tie, and who would probably prevail in such a case.

Bush would probably be re-elected President. But if Democrats win back the Senate, John Edwards could be elected Vice President.

Which is an absolutely intolerable situation. We can't have a government which can be so utterly changed by one assassin's bullet.

We have to correct this Constitutional death-trap as soon as possible. We can't do so before the elections, but we'd better do it shortly thereafter.

Correction: I initially stated that John Kerry could be elected Veep. The Black Republican corrected me.


posted by Ace at 02:54 PM
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John Edwards, not John Kerry:

"The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice." - 12th Amendment

You're talking to the gay Daleks again, Ace.

Posted by: The Black Republican on July 7, 2004 03:21 PM

Thanks.

Those gay Daleks are always confusing me.

Posted by: Ace on July 7, 2004 03:26 PM

It was the lack of cowbell. You're slacking off.

Posted by: Da Goddess on July 7, 2004 03:31 PM

Yes, but I still make fewer errors than Paul Krugman.

Posted by: Ace on July 7, 2004 03:41 PM

Yeah, but so do the theoretical infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters.

Posted by: Dave on July 7, 2004 04:56 PM

Infinite Monkeys

Nice name for a blog.

Posted by: on July 7, 2004 05:28 PM

This makes an interesting alternative to all the McCain for VP talk. And it would put the Democrats in a big dilemma: would it be right to use force to create "regime change" in the US? Heh. Indeed.

Posted by: Simon on July 8, 2004 01:32 AM

Actually, as long as you have separate votes for Prez and VP, this is _always_ a possibility, since electors can vote for whomever they want to. (Not usually done in practice, but they can.)

The only way out is to have straight-ticket electoral voting, and -- while I do think a two-party system is better than a lot of the alternaties -- I'd really rather not write that into the Constitution.

Posted by: Tony Zbaraschuk on July 8, 2004 07:14 PM
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