Skimming the Presidential Succession Act of 1886, if it's an incoming, not incumbent, President and VP, after the electoral votes have been counted,... it doesn't say and who knows what would have actually happened. The Succession Act of 1792 gave Congress the power to call a special election...
This discussion of U.S. Presidents, especially the pre-War of Succession Presidents makes me wonder how an early American history course would be taught considering that at least 7 of U.S. Presidents, depending on how you count where a President is "from", were from what would become the...
What ever came of the property that was Marshlands Plantation. I dont believe it's ever made clear what happened to it in the books, was Tom Colleton working it before he went back into the army and did his sons eventually take it over after the war? Does the Colleton family still own it in the...
Great looking maps! And lord knows I love a good electoral map. However didn't Blackford say that he was the 30th President? That he had accomplished something only 29 people before him had done? That only leaves room for one two term president between Lincoln and Roosevelt unless I'm counting...
The only relative I can recall him speaking of and being referenced is his dad who was a overseer on a plantation. Maybe I've always understood it wrong, but given that slaves would have been manumitted about the time he (Jake) was born and he always seemed to talk about his father in the past...
I believe he also has the opportunity to be the first Democrat other than Bartlet to be reelected to a second term since FDR since LBJ wasn't elected to his first term as President.
"I want the [results]!!"
"It's not possible for us to just open one of these computers with a screwdriver and get the [results] that are in there, right?"
x'D
If Cheney (or any other VP) is killed or removed from office there is no VP until the President nominates a new one and Congress approves the nomination.
I doubt much would change on the day of or how 9/11 is remembered historically, however if Cheney did have as much influence in the Bush...
For my own amusement, I'd like to imagine a situation where the mainstream Republican voters start heading in Long's direction and the official Republican nominee doesn't even have the 15% required for inclusion in the debates but the independent (Long) does.
Wasn't there also something about Hollis' company closing a major manufacturing center in one of the states the Seaborn/Hollis won, costing that state a lot of well paying jobs and leading to the electors from that state refusing to support Hollis? Maybe I'm misremembering.
It may be different in universe, but I believe in OTL many states have a requirement in their ballot access laws that in order to appear on a presidential ballot in that state you have to have a Pres and a VPres candidate. I recall reading a story that George Wallace thought he'd run stronger by...
I could see that, especially the way Shiff plays the character in the 4th season, though I think that has as much to do with him being disappointed in the direction they took the character in the last season than the story. It does make the scene where she goes to his apartment to try and...