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I highly doubt a Civil War is even possible in today's America. Protests have a hard enough time as it is. Not even Bernie is going to go around starting Black Knights or something like that.
@Luminosity: I don't know why you're thinking the Democrats say or act like that either. Trouble communicating why something is a good idea doesn't mean they're saying "We know what you want better than you" and quite frankly that's a very old accusation that, well, it's old and tiresome. God, I remember hearing that as a kid.
Edit: The question is why would they even pick someone not in the running? Just because they could theoretically do a thing doesn't mean they'll do it. Politicians do, in fact, know what practicality is.
edited 21st Feb '16 2:18:58 PM by AceofSpades
According to the 12th Amendment, the top 3 people which have Electors may be voted upon by the House. It's not open to everybody, if I read the dense text there correctly.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWe've already had an election decided by the federal government in recent history when the Supreme Court halted recounts in Florida during the 2000 election, and the only result was a lot of grumbling. I doubt anyone's going to be happy with that sort of outcome, but I doubt it would come to riots in the streets, much less outright civil war.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.If the election went to the House, whoever is chosen would have to be from the top three choices which would be the Republican nominee, the Democratic nominee, and Donald Trump running as an Independent. The issue is mainly that the Democratic nominee would likely win the popular vote and have the most votes in the electoral college since the Republican nominee and Trump would divide the Republican vote, but the Republican nominee would be chosen because the Republican-held House will favor its own party over the actual winner by both popular vote and electoral college vote.
Wizard Needs Food BadlyBloomberg will only step in if Sanders and Trump get their party's nominations. And since its not clear that Sanders is running away with this race, that puts off his decision to join in until at least Super Tuesday. The longer he waits to enter, the less effective his campaign will be.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I see Ted Cruz as a spectacularly insane god-complexed man. He is The Chosen One, his own dad wrote it! And through that, Cruz believes he is Chosen and nobody else except Ted Cruz is important to "the story".
It all fits, with his general attitude toward other people and how he seems to view himself.
That was the Supreame Court favouring the electoral vote over the popular vote, not the House overriding both the popular and electoral votes.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThe scenario Jack's describing was called The Corrupt Bargain, and it ended John Q Adams' presidency before it even began. He was something like third place in electors, but because of a split election, it went to the house where he promised postings for certain influential members who were then able to get him elected, but doing so he lame-ducked himself immediately because the populace cried foul (the people wanted Jackson), and he spent four years getting hounded by the press until Jackson soundly chucked him out.
Maybe, maybe not. The degree of apathy towards politics of the general populace is hard to underestimate.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"And now we have another mass shooting.
He's a random, regular guy. He's not a Muslim or anything else that fits into a comfortable stereotype (well, except a white male as most mass shooters have been). Motive not known. Targeted random people for no known reason.
I'm not sure what narrative his mass shooting fits.
King of the Hill: America's last bipartisan comedy.
For better or worse. I have a feeling you guys will say worse.
I agree with that about King of the Hill. At first glance it looks merely like a parody of the small-town South, but then there are times when the show definitely sides with conservative values and portrays liberalism in a negative light, especially in the very first episode with the government worker constantly harassed and referred to as "twig boy" while he tries to have Bobby taken away from the Hills over a misunderstanding, or the later Archaeology professor.
That said and while there are some episodes where i disagree with the Aesop they came to, the characters were well-drawn and the viewpoints were often fairly complex.

So my dad brought up an interesting question, if the election goes to the House of Representatives, do they have to pick one of the people running, or could they pick someone else, maybe one of their own. My dad seems to think so, he also thinks the American people would accept such a choice, whereas I think their would be riots in the street if not outright Civl War.
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.