2020 U.S. Presidential elections

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Oh, right! Sorry, its been a while since I read about it.

So imagine president Biden with VP Trump. That would he crazy. Trump would be like a way less powerful shadow PM in the UK.
I think it's more likely that the Senate would make someone like Ted Cruz VP.

And Joe Biden might leave the job to Kamala Harris, so she could run as an incumbent in 2024.
 
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What if both end up with 270 electoral college votes?
A tie would be 269 each. The House of Representatives would decide the president, but they would vote by state, and Republicans control more delegations. The Senate would select the Vice President.

With the open states, I am not sure if a tie is currently possible.
 

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I just watched 15 minutes CNN.
Holy smoke.
If all the news channels that you guys have, are as hyper about every snippet of information or background information when there is no snippet available, you Americans must be totally worn out by now.
 

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I just watched 15 minutes CNN.
Holy smoke.
If all the news channels that you guys have, are as hyper about every snippet of information or background information when there is no snippet available, you Americans must be totally worn out by now.
 

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I just watched 15 minutes CNN.
Holy smoke.
If all the news channels that you guys have, are as hyper about every snippet of information or background information when there is no snippet available, you Americans must be totally worn out by now.
American [I mean U.S., sorry, Canada, Mexico] news is addicted to drama. :(
 

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I just watched 15 minutes CNN.
Holy smoke.
If all the news channels that you guys have, are as hyper about every snippet of information or background information when there is no snippet available, you Americans must be totally worn out by now.
It's like that regardless of the story, though obviously the election even moreso. It's rough to watch any American news channels when there is a mass shooting or other terrorist event. The curse of the 24 hour news channel is that they consistently beat everything down to the ground.
 

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It's like that regardless of the story, though obviously the election even moreso. It's rough to watch any American news channels when there is a mass shooting or other terrorist event. The curse of the 24 hour news channel is that they consistently beat everything down to the ground.
Well, and will make up shit if they can't get any facts.
 

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Asterix & Obelix? See, we Americans aren't completely culturally ignorant. :)
I keep having this dream where cartoon cutouts of Asterix and Obelisk (and Dogmatix, of course) are floating around a background of the ISS interior, "floating" randomly in zero-G with waltz music playing, like some kind of Frenchified cheezy Monty Python animation made on a super tight budget by a lazy ass animator. It's like an ear worrm.

Excuse me, I have to go now and build a time machine so I can go back 350 years and kill Vivaldi. It just won't stop otherwise.
 
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What if both end up with 270 electoral college votes?
There are only 538 votes. A tie would be 269-269.

The answer is it then goes to the House of Representatives to resolve, after Jan 3rd, 2021.
 

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The servants/serfs do not matter, even as they serve the chosen ones. That is a result of our capitalistic system, well not even that, but our form of it in the sense of unchecked greed with no boundaries or restrictions. They have been whittling away at anything that restricts it for decades now. This is the eventual realization of that.
Sometimes I think the rich have set things up so we fight each other, rather than them. No, actually I think that all the time. About the only way I see out of that trap is to expose their plan, then start working for ourselves and each other rather than for them.