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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Oh right, US presidents basically get elected twice, first the popular vote, then the electoral college. The latter is the decisive one. This is where you get the bizarre situation that a candidate can win the popular vote but still lose the election or vice versa. And that in turn is why, at its core, the electoral college is undemocratic.
As for why November, the US has a fixed election date. It is always on that day. I don't know the historical reason, though.
Edited by Redmess on Sep 22nd 2020 at 3:29:44 PM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesThere other consideration for a lame-duck session is institutional push-back. While he retains the legal authority to order things done a lame-duck lacks the time to push things through and the long-term power to punish resisters.
Think how often things get delayed in large bureaucracies, it’s entirely possible that anything super crazy Trump would try to do as a lame-duck could get so bundled up in red-tape that it never happens.
As for the subject of how US elections are run, id say that the US is a pretty good example of a multi-state union like the EU growing organically into being one country but never properly updating the rules along the way.
I’m not actually sure it’s in the constitution when electors are selected (when the electoral college votes is), I think it used to vary between states until congress passed a law to have a single Election Day.
Edited by Silasw on Sep 22nd 2020 at 1:34:44 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranYeah 1845 is when congress set a single Election Day, due to the invention of the telegraph, before then each state could pick when to hold Election Day, as long as it was with a 34 day window leading up to the day the electoral college votes.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranRomney will vote for Trump's Supreme Court nominee
, meaning everyone who could have been on the fence is now decided. As long as Trump nominates someone like Amy Coney Barrett or Barbara Lagoa (the two main names I've been hearing), he's going to get his third Supreme Court Justice.
Edit: Shelley Moore Capito, Mike Enzi, Mike Crapo, and Jim Risch will also vote for Trump's pick.
Edited by nova92 on Sep 22nd 2020 at 7:34:54 AM
Yeah this is pretty standard for Romney, his impeachment vote was the exception, not the rule. Hell I'm pretty sure the impeachment vote wasn’t down to a dislike of Trump and what he’s done, but due to the fact that at the start of the trial he swore an oath to god to consider the facts and pass judgment based off of them, he couldn’t vote Trump’s way without breaking an explicit oath to god.
Looks like we’re court packing come February if things go well.
Edited by Silasw on Sep 22nd 2020 at 2:58:44 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranOh gee. The completely inevitable outcome is going to happen. Who could have possibly guessed.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Who wants to bet they're not even gonna bother with a hearing, just a direct vote? Because now that they have the guaranteed votes, why bother dragging it out? Especially of the fear they're gonna become lame ducks come November.
The worst part is, with Romney saying he's gonna vote for the pick, it's definitely going to drag several Conservative Democrats with him (I'm looking at Manchin and Jones specifically).

@Hawk Nov 3rd is only voting day, he gets "elected" a few weeks later by the EC, then it's the Holidays and they do need a bit of time to organize move in and move out efforts.
Edited by 3of4 on Sep 22nd 2020 at 3:23:41 PM
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