Applesauce
Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. By the way, this blog’s name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, “All politics is applesauce.” |
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October 29th, 2008 at 12:48pm Pat Cunningham
This chart is from the incomparable FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM, where they do lots of cool number-crunching and election-projecting:
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5 Comments Add your own
1. Linda Grist Cunningham | October 29th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing this.
2. Pat Cunningham | October 29th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Linda: You forgot to mention that we’re not related, which some of our regular Applesaucers don’t know.
3. Linda Grist Cunningham | October 29th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Yeah, no relation
Here’s one for ya: … Got a call just now from someone who was at the roast last week. She figured I might know the answer, and I told her you probably would — or at least would enjoy finding out and sharing.
Here’s her question: If the presidential candidate were killed (or otherwise incapacitated BEFORE) election day, what would happen?
My educated guess is this: Assuming the ballot were already printed, then the election would go forward. If the “dead” candidate won, then the vice-president would be inaugurated and would pick his or her own vice president.
But, what if the ballot had not been printed? Or, what if the death occurred right after the convention?
Want to do some research and blog on it?
4. Pat Cunningham | October 29th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Linda: Piece of cake. If a presidential nominee dies prior to the election, the party’s national committee selects a replacement nominee. The dead dude’s name would remain on the ballot in most or all states, and it would be up to the party to spread the word that a vote for the late so-and-so is really a vote for the replacement. If the president-elect dies before the inauguration, his or her running mate becomes president.
5. Linda Grist Cunningham | October 29th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I knew you’d know.
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