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Had the 2020 US presidential election been a 269-269 electoral vote tie and thus would have gone into the US House of Representatives, who would have been likely to win there? The US House of Representatives votes by state delegation, right? If so, which party has the most state delegations in the US House of Representatives right now? Futurist110 ( talk) 03:49, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
Which cases have there been of demographic change resulting in political changes in large territories? I can personally think of demographic change (especially the huge influx of non-whites into these territories) making the Southwestern US ( California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas) and the Southeastern US ( Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia) much more blue and Democratic over the last 30 years, even if the process is in many of these cases still short of full completion. However, which additional examples of this have therem been throughout history? For the record, I mean without any changes in national sovereignty. Futurist110 ( talk) 05:43, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
I am not sure what this question means. As a mere Englishman I am not a great expert on US history but if I remember right there was a very substantial non-white population in Georgia,North Carolina and Virginia along with the other south eastern states since before the USA existed. They were brought there by force. It is the changes in the franchise and their ability to use their rights to vote which may have made a difference. The physical movement was from the "ex-slave states" northwards and westwards. I am also not sure that the ability of the non-white population to vote may not have made much difference, as the Democrats were I think the usual choice of the white population. The Republicans were I think originally a northern party (Abraham Lincoln etc.) I believe that the blacks began to vote Democrat because of the changes introduced by the Democrat Kennedy and Johnson administrations of the 1960s. Here in Britain the split between Labour and Conservative tends to be on income lines rather than racial and although the non white population increased between 1945 and 1980 the immigrant population tended to vote Labour just as the working whites did.As the general population grew richer and some of the non-whites became business men rather than employees, the Conservatives (and the more centrist Blairite Labour Party of the 1990s and 2000s) became more dominant. It seems to me that economics and its effect on people rather than race wins elections except where a party organised on racial lines is also or has been a nationalist party as occurred in India, Pakistan and various African countries. Spinney Hill ( talk) 11:13, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
What happens if the stress of the count gets to Joe before the tally is complete and he goes the way all good men go. Does Harris automatically take his place as the running candidate and then president if the Dems win? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.89.50 ( talk) 09:05, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
What happens if one or more of the electors dies before the electoral votes are officially cast? I'm sure the winning party in each state would want the right to appoint a replacement, but is that the law everywhere? Has this ever happened? -- 174.95.161.129 ( talk) 09:27, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
LOL. in your face Bugs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.89.50 ( talk) 11:03, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone know if any prediction markets for the US election are still trading? The ones I could find seem to have closed down on Nov 3, or at least not been updated since then, as of last night. I understand there is litigation going on, so as such, the outcome is not yet fully determined, but I also had the impression that things were now pretty much decided in favor of Biden and that there were only a few last gasps being tried by the Trump side. So I was hoping to get a sense of the odds by looking at how people are betting. I'm not seeking to place any bets myself but just want to find out whether my sense of the current status is corroborated by them. Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D ( talk) 18:38, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
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Had the 2020 US presidential election been a 269-269 electoral vote tie and thus would have gone into the US House of Representatives, who would have been likely to win there? The US House of Representatives votes by state delegation, right? If so, which party has the most state delegations in the US House of Representatives right now? Futurist110 ( talk) 03:49, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
Which cases have there been of demographic change resulting in political changes in large territories? I can personally think of demographic change (especially the huge influx of non-whites into these territories) making the Southwestern US ( California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas) and the Southeastern US ( Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia) much more blue and Democratic over the last 30 years, even if the process is in many of these cases still short of full completion. However, which additional examples of this have therem been throughout history? For the record, I mean without any changes in national sovereignty. Futurist110 ( talk) 05:43, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
I am not sure what this question means. As a mere Englishman I am not a great expert on US history but if I remember right there was a very substantial non-white population in Georgia,North Carolina and Virginia along with the other south eastern states since before the USA existed. They were brought there by force. It is the changes in the franchise and their ability to use their rights to vote which may have made a difference. The physical movement was from the "ex-slave states" northwards and westwards. I am also not sure that the ability of the non-white population to vote may not have made much difference, as the Democrats were I think the usual choice of the white population. The Republicans were I think originally a northern party (Abraham Lincoln etc.) I believe that the blacks began to vote Democrat because of the changes introduced by the Democrat Kennedy and Johnson administrations of the 1960s. Here in Britain the split between Labour and Conservative tends to be on income lines rather than racial and although the non white population increased between 1945 and 1980 the immigrant population tended to vote Labour just as the working whites did.As the general population grew richer and some of the non-whites became business men rather than employees, the Conservatives (and the more centrist Blairite Labour Party of the 1990s and 2000s) became more dominant. It seems to me that economics and its effect on people rather than race wins elections except where a party organised on racial lines is also or has been a nationalist party as occurred in India, Pakistan and various African countries. Spinney Hill ( talk) 11:13, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
What happens if the stress of the count gets to Joe before the tally is complete and he goes the way all good men go. Does Harris automatically take his place as the running candidate and then president if the Dems win? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.89.50 ( talk) 09:05, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
What happens if one or more of the electors dies before the electoral votes are officially cast? I'm sure the winning party in each state would want the right to appoint a replacement, but is that the law everywhere? Has this ever happened? -- 174.95.161.129 ( talk) 09:27, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
LOL. in your face Bugs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.89.50 ( talk) 11:03, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
Does anyone know if any prediction markets for the US election are still trading? The ones I could find seem to have closed down on Nov 3, or at least not been updated since then, as of last night. I understand there is litigation going on, so as such, the outcome is not yet fully determined, but I also had the impression that things were now pretty much decided in favor of Biden and that there were only a few last gasps being tried by the Trump side. So I was hoping to get a sense of the odds by looking at how people are betting. I'm not seeking to place any bets myself but just want to find out whether my sense of the current status is corroborated by them. Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D ( talk) 18:38, 6 November 2020 (UTC)