John Fredrick Parker
Donor
Starting after the one in the title, which US Presidential Elections might have deadlocked in the Electoral College and gotten thrown to the House of Representatives? (1860 aside - see below.)
Depending on when the next one happens, what would be the effects (aside, possibly, from someone different becoming president)? Would such an outcome, in itself, have fundamentally shaken up US politics again? Could it result in a constitutional amendment changing the rules for presidential elections again; if so, when would be the most opportune time, and what would the changes be? Popular vote, proportional ECVs, runoff elections?
And depending on when the PoD is and what constitutional changes (if any) emerge from them - what are the longer term effects on American Politics? Does the country move away from a Two Party Tradition? Do political parties become institutionally stronger or weaker? And depending on what (again, if any) larger changes do emerge, how are the larger political debates effected in the short to medium term? (For example, if third parties become more competitive, what sort of parties emerge and what effect do they have on the Overton Window of the period and on policy?)
Or alternatively, if none of these larger effects emerge from another 1824, we could just talk about some elections that might have gone to the House. Are there any that would have resulted in the House picking someone else President? Or that might have deadlocked, leaving the Senate to select a Vice President who then becomes (Acting) President?
One example I’m going to rule out here - 1860. Only because it’s been done to death here, and the OTL effect of Lincoln’s election was so important in its own right that changing it completely overshadows the effect of repeating the shenanigans that gave us Jacksonian Democracy.
So all that said - any thoughts?
Depending on when the next one happens, what would be the effects (aside, possibly, from someone different becoming president)? Would such an outcome, in itself, have fundamentally shaken up US politics again? Could it result in a constitutional amendment changing the rules for presidential elections again; if so, when would be the most opportune time, and what would the changes be? Popular vote, proportional ECVs, runoff elections?
And depending on when the PoD is and what constitutional changes (if any) emerge from them - what are the longer term effects on American Politics? Does the country move away from a Two Party Tradition? Do political parties become institutionally stronger or weaker? And depending on what (again, if any) larger changes do emerge, how are the larger political debates effected in the short to medium term? (For example, if third parties become more competitive, what sort of parties emerge and what effect do they have on the Overton Window of the period and on policy?)
Or alternatively, if none of these larger effects emerge from another 1824, we could just talk about some elections that might have gone to the House. Are there any that would have resulted in the House picking someone else President? Or that might have deadlocked, leaving the Senate to select a Vice President who then becomes (Acting) President?
One example I’m going to rule out here - 1860. Only because it’s been done to death here, and the OTL effect of Lincoln’s election was so important in its own right that changing it completely overshadows the effect of repeating the shenanigans that gave us Jacksonian Democracy.
So all that said - any thoughts?