2nd Addendum (re: RFKJ's candidacy)
A brief explanation of the 12th Amendment and what's about to happen
Robert Francis Kennedy, the Junior, is indeed going to run as an independent.
After providing enough time to the Democrat party to provide a fair primary to compete in, and enough of an assassination attempt to test whether his life and the actual democracy his candidacy represents is valuable enough for Secret Service protection, the dark horse from Camelot has adopted the strategy of racing for a House vote.
The more level contest Kennedy is now competing in is provided for in our Constitution, in case no presidential candidate wins a majority of Electoral College votes. But the way that “majority” is defined in the 12th Amendment should be explained:
In the presidential elections we normally have, in which minor-party presidential candidates are unlikely to win any states (“Don’t throw away your vote!”), the only way the 12th Amendment’s provision for a tie-breaking vote in the House of Representatives would be triggered is by an exact tie between the total electoral votes won by the two major-party candidates.
But the majority the 12th Amendement refers to is an actual number, not a relative one: 270. Any lower total of Electoral College votes (269 or fewer) would be half or less of our fifty states’ total of 538 electoral college votes, thus not a “majority” meaning a majority of the total votes there are to win.
So another way candidates could fail to win a majority is for more than two candidates to compete and not one of them win at least 270 total electoral college votes.
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Any other independent and minor-party candidates earning fewer votes than what, say, that surprise independent candidate from a famous political family earned would not be a candidate any longer because of the 12th Amendment’s limitation of a final vote to only three candidates, which is why Henry Clay was disqualified from the House vote back in 1824.
1824 was the only year the 12th Amendment has been invoked, but not because of a tie as we had in 1801 before anyone anticipated such an event.
Unlike how a repeat of 1801’s election would have triggered the 12th Amendment—because two major-party candidates had a dead tie—1824’s election triggered the House-vote clause because no single candidate won a majority of the total possible electoral college votes.
The 1824 election showed that a third candidate could cause an entirely new vote for the presidency to occur, and all that candidate would have to do is get more electoral votes than a fourth candidate. In my lifetime, that means more than zero.
Exactly two centuries later—precluding the strong possibility of tragic accidents—those three final candidates will be Donald J. Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Governor Gavin Newsom (the last having proven to me he knows he will be tapped for Dem frontrunner once Biden is made to exit the race).
(Newsom’s recent vetoing of a state bill that would ensure crazy moms have an advantage in custody battles if they affirm their children’s gender confusion confirmed for me he has been notified of his forthcoming candidacy, but I already sensed it in the manner in which he doth protest the “notion” that Biden won’t be running).
For just a crazy example off the top of my head how this might work, a candidate the Republican party cannot stop from running might earn about 266 votes; the candidate chosen by the Democrat party to fill in for the incumbent president just after when their primary would be might manifest about 260 votes; and an independent candidate riding destiny into the last moment human freedom can be saved from advancing global techno-slavery might earn about twelve (from a couple states that have had enough of the duopoly).
Once the election goes to the House of Representatives, each state will have only one vote to cast for president, regardless of its population. There will be a huge populist clamor for both Trump and Kennedy, and liberals who lost friendships and loved ones during the covid mismanagement may play a large polemical role in rallying support for Kennedy over Biden.
(There may even be a groundwell by the end of next year—of mass disgust with both the former presidents who promoted the mRNA shots so unquestioningly.)
With at least as many states voting for Kennedy as during the electoral college vote, and all those states switching to Kennedy in the House vote likely to have supported the Democrat candidate during the original vote, and states still supportive of the Democrat candidate having been reduced to a single vote each—losing advantage of their population density—one thing is certain: our next president won’t be a member of the Democrat party.
Now consider this, dear readers:
Kennedy and Trump serve as bulletproof vests for each other. If either contract a mysterious tragedy, the other would receive a surge of votes like no other in history. They probably know this too, that now two very suspicious accidents would have to occur if one does.
I saw no way before. This odd couple has reminded me of the unlimited powers of teamwork, and revealed to me yet another power of our Constitution to check tyranny.
Long live the kings.