{"id":394,"date":"2004-09-02T12:17:03","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T19:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/an-electoral-tie\/"},"modified":"2004-09-02T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T19:17:03","slug":"an-electoral-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/an-electoral-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"An Electoral Tie?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

USATODAY.com – Electoral math <\/p>\n

offers number of nightmares<\/a><\/p>\n

Divided government?<\/p>\n

The Constitution outlines what follows in case of a tie, though that’s <\/p>\n

happened only once, in 1800. The newly elected House of Representatives chooses the president from the top three finishers; each state <\/p>\n

has one vote. The newly elected Senate chooses the vice president; each senator has a vote.<\/p>\n

(In 1800, running mates Thomas Jefferson <\/p>\n

and Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral votes. Four years later, the 12th Amendment was ratified to clarify that parties could nominate <\/p>\n

tickets rather than having candidates for president and vice president in effect compete with one another.)<\/p>\n

This time, the process <\/p>\n

presumably would favor Bush. Republicans control 30 of the 50 state delegations in the House; the GOP almost certainly will keep control <\/p>\n

in the November elections. Republicans now have 51 Senate seats. But if Democrats regain an edge in the Senate — which is conceivable <\/p>\n

— the choice for vice president could get interesting.<\/p>\n

A George W. Bush-John Edwards administration? …<\/p>\n

For a tie: Every state <\/p>\n

votes the way it did four years ago, except for two. New Hampshire and West Virginia, which voted for Bush last time, go Democratic this <\/p>\n

time. Kerry is competitive in both states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USATODAY.com – Electoral math offers number of nightmares Divided government? The Constitution outlines what follows in case of a tie, though that’s happened only once, in 1800. The newly elected House of Representatives chooses the president from the top three finishers; each state has one vote. The newly elected Senate chooses the vice president; each … Continue reading An Electoral Tie?!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}