[ExI] libertarian might win for a change

[Darin Sunley]

As the saying goes: "From your lips to God's ears."

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 8:19 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> Don’t take this too seriously, but a glimmer of hope has emerged for the
> first time ever, that the libertarians might win the Whitehouse.  No, I
> don’t mean Gary Johnson might win: it is looking like one of those other two
> fellers will win, either Romney or Obama.  But I just did the math and found
> something cool.
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> The tossup states are now New Hampshire, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado and
> Nevada.  In the even that Mr. Obama takes NH, OH and WI, and Mr. Romney
> takes IA, CO and NV, then the final score in electoral votes turns out to be
> a tie, 269 each.  If that happens, the tiebreak for president goes to the
> house of representatives, which is controlled by Mr. Romney’s party by a
> healthy margin.  The vice president is decided by the senate, which is
> controlled by Mr. Obama’s party, so they will likely elect Joe Biden.  So if
> the above combination plays out, the US would split parties in the
> Whitehouse.
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> The president has authority over what jobs the VP is assigned.  Mr. Romney
> would likely assign Mr. Biden to go into his office and stay there for the
> next four years, just as Bush Senior did with his VP Dan Quayle.  On the
> other hand, Mr. Biden, who has presidential aspirations, is then free to
> make any criticism, say whatever he wants about the president, utterly
> without negative consequences, since the president cannot fire him.  We then
> face a rather unique election in 2016 where a sitting president is running
> against a sitting vice president.
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> In any case, should all this happen, the president and vice president
> criticizing each other weakens the office of both, the power of the
> executive branch is diminished and the libertarians get what libertarians
> really want: not to be elected, but rather to decrease the concentration of
> power.
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> spike
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