Originally Posted By: Sky-Guy
Originally Posted By: Somethingsmellsf
Who cares, neither have a chance in hell of being taken seriously and will never get elected.


I'm going to debate my wife on the issues over dinner tonight, should we televise it?


Fishy


Who Cares? You should! unless you don't care for a true democracy and like having that thick piece of wool sitting over your face. ..That comment "who cares" is exactly what is wrong with stupid americans like yourself these days.


We are not a democracy. We are a republic. google it.

There are about 20 candidates for president in florida. There will be probably 4-6 in Washington. They have the right to speak, but that is where it ends. In most cases, its the minority of each party that feel they are not represented and leave the party, hoping to get leverage for issues. A good read is the Kennedy Nixon race and how a couple southern states ended up throwing some delegates, to Strom Thurmond? and their was more than one way to decide how to the application of electoral votes. It didnt make any difference in the end, but if more states adopted proportion distribution of delegates, it could be just another way to jury rig an election.

Its not a common discussion, but if the split does happen at 269-269 (which is now possible 4-5 different ways), the House will pick the president and the Senate will pick the VP. Assuming its not just cheerleading, I don't think its going to be a tie.