just a reminder from April of 2016 On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Peter Szerlagi <[email protected]> wrote: > from the Electoral College article at Wikipedia > > The candidate who receives an absolute majority of electoral votes > (currently 270) for the office of president or of vice president is > elected to that office. The Twelfth Amendment provides for what > happens if the Electoral College fails to elect a president or vice > president. If no candidate receives a majority for president, then the > House of Representatives will select the president, with each state > delegation (instead of each representative) having only one vote. If > no candidate receives a majority for vice president, then the Senate > will select the vice president, with each senator having one vote. On > four occasions, most recently in 2000, the Electoral College system > has resulted in the election of a candidate who did not receive the > most popular votes in the election.[6][7] > > ------------------------- > > I guess we need to know what the makeup of the House will be in Jan > 2017 and we need to know which way each state delegation will vote. I > wonder how they decide on their vote?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/114th_United_States_Congress 33 states now have Republican majorities in the House of Reps - but some states have just 1 member - some could go either way I suppose - and a couple of states have even splits - and some states have close splits of R vs D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
