What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

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What if no candidate wins 270 electoral votes?

In preparation of that looming possibility, here is the answer, as outlined in the National Archives:

If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Presidential election leaves the Electoral College process and moves to Congress. The House of Representatives elects the President from the three (3) Presidential candidates who received the most electoral votes. Each State delegation has one vote and it is up to the individual States to determine how to vote. (Since the District of Columbia is not a State, it has no State delegation in the House and cannot vote). A candidate must receive at least 26 votes (a majority of the States) to be elected. The Senate elects the Vice President from the two (2) Vice Presidential candidates with the most electoral votes. Each Senator casts one vote for Vice President. (Since the District of Columbia is has no Senators and is not represented in the vote). A candidate must receive at least 51 votes (a majority of Senators) to be elected. If the House of Representatives fails to elect a President by Inauguration Day, the Vice-President Elect serves as acting President until the deadlock is resolved in the House.

This was actually played out in the third season of "House of Cards (Netflix version).

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Telly from the 90s is considered retro telly on Netflix.

[Anomalocaris]

The milk produced by a cow over its entire life contains four times more calories than all the meat on the cow

[Rev. Rye]

Apparently, there’s a Sandra Bullock rom-com that’s actually canon to the Michael Bay Transformers universe.








Yes, Alan Tudyk
has apparently confirmed that his characters in 28 Days and Transformers: Dark of the Moon are one and the same.

[Anomalocaris]

A map of electoral results by county in the US shows not only the concentration of blue, democraratic voting counties in major cities on either coast, but also a continuous inland blue belt from mississippi, through Alabama, georgia, north and south carolina. this blue democratic voting belt is visible not only in the 21st century but for most presidential election back to 1880s.

if you superimpose this part of electoral map on a geological history map of the same area, you will find a close correlation between this inland democratic blue belt with a belt of geologic structures that dates back 100 million years, reflecting a a belt of sedimentary plains formed by debris eroded from appalachian mountains during the age of dinosaurs, when the world sea level was 100-300 meters higher, and most of the low lying parts of the world’s continents today were flooded.

As it turns out the remnants of these plains form particularly fertile agricultural for cotton growth, leading to development of plantation in antebellum south, and a high concentration of african americans working the plantation as slaves. After the civil war, despite the demographic movements these areas remain locations of counties with highest percentage of african americans in the US.

So you might say some of the voting patterns seen in the United Stares in the21st century was graven into the rock beneath our feet when dinosaurs still roamed.

[Anomalocaris]

the features of the presidential faces carved into Mt Rushmore are intentionally carved 2 inches overthick, so that after 30,000 years of expected weathering and erosion, the features will be assume the continence exactly as the sculptor intended.

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How can I know what I do not know if I do not know it yet?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

On 3 March 1876, chunks of what appeared to be meat rained down on a small area in Bath County, Kentucky for several minutes. The substance has never been positively identified.

Kentucky Meat Shower


Boru

[Rev. Rye]

A map of electoral results by county in the US shows not only the concentration of blue, democraratic voting counties in major cities on either coast,  but also a continuous inland blue belt from mississippi, through Alabama, georgia, north and south carolina.    this blue democratic voting belt is visible not only in the 21st century but for most presidential election back to 1880s.

if you superimpose this part of electoral map on a geological history map of the same area, you will find a close correlation between this inland democratic blue belt with a belt of geologic structures that dates back 100 million years, reflecting a a belt of sedimentary plains formed by debris eroded from appalachian mountains during the age of dinosaurs, when the world sea level was 100-300 meters higher, and most of the low lying parts of the world’s continents today were flooded.  

As it turns out the remnants of these plains form particularly fertile agricultural for cotton growth, leading to development of plantation in antebellum south, and a high concentration of african americans working the plantation as slaves.    After the civil war, despite the demographic movements these areas remain locations of counties with highest percentage of african americans in the US.

So you might say some of the voting patterns seen in the United Stares in the21st century was graven into the rock beneath our feet when dinosaurs still roamed.

Honestly, the fact that they're the Blackest parts of the United States is probably enough to explain why they're so blue. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that, if I were black and had to choose between a party that's blatantly embracing white supremacy and one that isn't, the choice would be pretty obvious.

[Anomalocaris]

A map of electoral results by county in the US shows not only the concentration of blue, democraratic voting counties in major cities on either coast,  but also a continuous inland blue belt from mississippi, through Alabama, georgia, north and south carolina.    this blue democratic voting belt is visible not only in the 21st century but for most presidential election back to 1880s.

if you superimpose this part of electoral map on a geological history map of the same area, you will find a close correlation between this inland democratic blue belt with a belt of geologic structures that dates back 100 million years, reflecting a a belt of sedimentary plains formed by debris eroded from appalachian mountains during the age of dinosaurs, when the world sea level was 100-300 meters higher, and most of the low lying parts of the world’s continents today were flooded.  

As it turns out the remnants of these plains form particularly fertile agricultural for cotton growth, leading to development of plantation in antebellum south, and a high concentration of african americans working the plantation as slaves.    After the civil war, despite the demographic movements these areas remain locations of counties with highest percentage of african americans in the US.

So you might say some of the voting patterns seen in the United Stares in the21st century was graven into the rock beneath our feet when dinosaurs still roamed.

Honestly, the fact that they're the Blackest parts of the United States is probably enough to explain why they're so blue. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that, if I were black and had to choose between a party that's blatantly embracing white supremacy and one that isn't, the choice would be pretty obvious.

Yes, and geology dating back 100 million years played a critical part in making these counties the blackest parts of the U.S.