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This happened once... in the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson won more electoral votes than any other candidate. But he failed to gain a majority of all possible electoral votes. So the House made the choice and elected John Quincey Adams.

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ORIGINAL: HaveRopeWillBind

Cyber,
The amendment that added term limits was put in place by the Republican party after WWII because they wanted to prevent a Democratic President from being able to hold on to power as long as Roosevelt. In a strict sense regular elections by themselves should suffice in place of term limits. I could easily see the current Supreme Court declaring term limits to be provided for by the electoral process and therefore throwing out the 25th Amendment as being against the intent of the founding fathers. We have already seen power grabs by this administration on an equivalent level.

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ORIGINAL: ligar59

I was told that Pres Bush could declare Marshall law, which would suspend the elections indefinitely, thus allowing him to remain in office until he decided the "war" was over

Tell me that is not possible

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ORIGINAL: Gwynvyd

Any one who thinks Bush will just calmly hand over the reins in Nov is nuttier then a fruit cake.

We are ramping up with Iran, who has Putin and the Russians behind him, and now Pakistan is totaly destablized... Which is Russia's old enemy and punching bag... We stand at the brink of World War 3 and Dubya and his minions are just the meglomaniac morons to push it. Google Dominionism... That has been his main cause of all he has done over these years in office. Now that he destablized the Middle East even more, and stired up Al Qaeda to be angier then a hornets nest this crazy idiot thinks to try to bring about the second comming by his antics. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1587122,00.html If you know your bible well enough you can see that is what he is trying to do, esp after reading that.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2004/07/16/quote_of_the_day.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html 

With what once was our only solid ally Pakistan going down in flames, and Bhutto dead ( she was very Pro US, and was in fact raised in the US ) we are screwed as far as it goes with Russia and Pakistan. While everyone was bitching about Illegals, and Gays... no one noticed that this stupid sumobitch re-opened up the cold war. Yeah.. Russia is pissed. We want to put missle bases all of the EU, but esp near Russia ( go fig right?) and Putin didnt take too kindly to it. We had Condi and her lil flying monkey go over and meet with Putin over the matters, he made them wait 45 mins, and then blew them off, minorly insulted them, and in a couple of days after Condi and her buddy left Iran.. Putin showed up in Iran to state that who ever messes with Iran, messes with Russia.

And finaly how the Republicans are stealing the vote in 08 ~using children as bait even....  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exdQ5mWaOLY

Gwyn

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ORIGINAL: Daddysredhead

Aylee, Level...  tinfoil is not going to help us in this instance.

We have somehow been transported to the basement of the science building.  Titanium is the only way to go.

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

Jesus Christ, I can tell many of you guys need to take a class in American government and constitutional law.

Term limits for the presidency cannot be "declared unconstitutional" since they are part of the constitution (25th amendment). The Supreme Court interprets the constititution, it cannot change it.

As for elections....please try to remember that the President of the United States is not directly elected by the people. The President is elected by the electoral college. If something were to happen where an election does not take place (or a winner is not decided), the 12th amendment states that the new president is chosen by the House of Representatives. The House goes into special session and each state caucus has one vote. The candidate with the majority of votes (26 votes in this case) would be elected president.
This happened once... in the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson won more electoral votes than any other candidate. But he failed to gain a majority of all possible electoral votes. So the House made the choice and elected John Quincey Adams.

We are a constitutional republic....NOT a democracy. It's been that way since 1790. The people don't elect the president. Your right to vote for president is given to you by your state constitution, not the federal government because the state is the one that places the votes in the electoral college. Your popular vote in each state determines which candidate gets those votes. This also assures that the states hold their power in the union. And that's why the electoral college will never be abolished. The states are never going to give up more power to the federal government.

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ORIGINAL: christine1


After 8 years of BS from a democrat party that's hell bent on losing a war in order to improve their election prospects I'm sure he can't wait until January 2009.

No whining allowed when Manhatten, Phoenix or LA evaporates under an Iran built weapon.

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After 8 years of BS from a democrat party that's hell bent on losing a war in order to improve their election prospects I'm sure he can't wait until January 2009.

No whining allowed when Manhatten, Phoenix or LA evaporates under an Iran built weapon.

oh, there is a voice of reason still....somewhere!

I knew I liked you!

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ORIGINAL: Muttling

Bush has taken some odd steps with this Martial Law thing, but the laws still have a time of emergency and restoration of order requirement.  Furthermore, Bush is commander in chief and the military will execute his commands but they are not blind robots.   If he tried to pulled out the Martial Law clauses the military wouldn't follow those orders for very long unless he came up with some really good justifications and it would be turned off in a matter of days (weeks at the longest).

Martial Law has been successful used in other countries to pull off a coup attempt, but those dictators had the full backing of the military in their efforts to overthrow the government.   Our military will not support such an effort to overthrow our government.