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Who Makes Final POTUS Decision?

Who Makes Final POTUS Decision?

  • Popular Vote

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Electoral College

    Votes: 13 76.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 23.5%
  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .
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Who do you think makes the final decision on who becomes POTUS?
 
The Electoral College does. What I think is entirely irrelevant.
 
Technically it could be the Senate under the 12th Amendment, so it largely depends on the facts on the ground.
 
backpacker said:
Technically it could be the Senate under the 12th Amendment, so it largely depends on the facts on the ground.
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Senate never has any final decision on POTUS. They are limited to VP.
 
Why is this a poll?
 
Brischera said:
Senate never has any final decision on POTUS. They are limited to VP.
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I thought they got to decide if the House couldn't reach a decision. Oh well. I guess I would have lost in final jeopardy.
 
voters basically elect electors for the candidate of their choice state by state. so the electors have the final say, but they aren't going to reverse the result.
 
Six people meet at a bowling alley in Hoboken, eat wings and drink beer and make a collective decision as to what they will ALLOW the new president to do and not do. The person who actually becomes the President is not their concern..... only that he follow orders.

Why else would FDR come up with New Deal and the alphabet programs of the Hundred Days without a word of it in the campaign?

Why else would Trump cave on prosecuting Clinton even before the month is out when he just got elected?

Trump has also been told to back down on the Paris climate deal, NAFTA and building the wall. These will also go the way of "lock her up".

And the wings were not very good but at least the beer was cold.
 
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This thread falsely implies there's some kind of disagreement on the subject.
 
Helix said:
voters basically elect electors for the candidate of their choice state by state. so the electors have the final say, but they aren't going to reverse the result.
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Are they entitled to under the constitution??
 
Nilly said:
Are they entitled to under the constitution??
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Only about half of the states require their electors to follow the popular vote. The rest could throw their votes towards Charlie Sheen.
 
Nilly said:
Are they entitled to under the constitution??
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an argument could be made, but it's not going to happen. i don't support it, at any rate. the EC is the rule we agreed on going into this thing, and that's the way it stands. people love the EC when it tips things their way, and they hate it when it doesn't. these threads would be a mirror image had the roles reversed, IMO.
 
Harshaw said:
Why is this a poll?
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Polls are a way of collecting results from the public with a question. If anyone thinks it is useless they are free to ignore it and focus on what they deem important.
 
Helix said:
an argument could be made, but it's not going to happen. i don't support it, at any rate. the EC is the rule we agreed on going into this thing, and that's the way it stands. people love the EC when it tips things their way, and they hate it when it doesn't. these threads would be a mirror image had the roles reversed, IMO.
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Can't speak for others but I disagree with that, although I am an independent and not really partisan. I think the electoral college has merit. 18 states and, in particular, a few large cities, should not elect the president for the entire country, even if things had been reversed. I was not a fan of either candidate. There would be no reason for many people to vote if just a few areas were going to decide who is president. I'm also in favor of changing the voting day to Saturday and having all of the polls across the country open at the same virtual times. The way it stands now, if the East coast were to decide the election there would be no reason for voters in the West to even vote. That wouldn't be fair either.
 
Brischera said:
Polls are a way of collecting results from the public with a question. If anyone thinks it is useless they are free to ignore it and focus on what they deem important.
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But everyone knows the electoral college is what elects the president. No matter how much you disagree with it and have arguments against and want to change it, that's just the way it is.
 
Moderate Right said:
Can't speak for others but I disagree with that, although I am an independent and not really partisan. I think the electoral college has merit. 18 states and, in particular, a few large cities, should not elect the president for the entire country, even if things had been reversed. I was not a fan of either candidate. There would be no reason for many people to vote if just a few areas were going to decide who is president. I'm also in favor of changing the voting day to Saturday and having all of the polls across the country open at the same virtual times. The way it stands now, if the East coast were to decide the election there would be no reason for voters in the West to even vote. That wouldn't be fair either.
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i must have been unclear. i don't support eliminating the EC, but had the results gone the other way, the arguments would have been the opposite. same thing with job report threads.
 
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