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Grade of D as in David

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  1. https://www.history.com/news/can-the-president-and-vice-president-be-from-the-same-state There are many misconceptions about the rules of a president choosing their running mate. There’s no law or regulation against a president and vice president of the United States being from the same state. The reason why some people mistakenly believe such a prohibition exists comes down to a particular aspect of the Electoral College system laid out in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. Article II states: “The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves.” Under the original system, electors did not distinguish between candidates for the nation’s top two offices; the candidate with the most votes became president, while the runner-up became vice president. The 12th Amendment, adopted in 1804 after two chaotic elections, mandated that electors cast separate ballots for president and vice president. However, the rule preventing an elector from voting for two people from his home state remained in effect under the new system. In most elections, this quirk in the system wouldn’t even matter. In 2008, Barack Obama could have chosen a running mate from his home state of Illinois in either 2008 or 2012 with no adverse effect; the same goes for Ronald Reagan in 1980 or ’84, George H.W. Bush in 1988 and Bill Clinton in 1992 or ‘96. But if an election turns out to be particularly close, the rule could potentially come into play. It almost did in the notoriously contentious election of 2000. When Texas Gov. George W. Bush chose Dick Cheney as his running mate on the Republican ticket, Cheney had been living and voting and paying taxes for five years in Texas. Shortly before the election, however, Cheney obtained a Wyoming driver’s license and put his Dallas home on the market. (He had a vacation home in Wyoming, which is the state he had formerly represented in the U.S. Congress.) Good thing for him he did: The Bush-Cheney ticket ended up winning with 271 electoral votes—just a slim five-vote margin—over Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, a total they certainly wouldn’t have hit without Texas’ 32 votes.
  2. Lol if the 28 include Shatner, LeBron, and Stephen King. That means only 25 people actually signed up. Hell some of those might even be test signups from Twitter making sure the process actually worked when they saw so low adoption.
  3. At some point Ron's going to bus some immigrant children to Disney world and accidentally do something good for a change.
  4. Yeah I think Gregory was a one off. All new major rehabs are going to be tear downs. Hell the Tower is built on the site of old main and the only thing we kept from it were the Burleson bells.
  5. The two victims at the entrance to the Rock Creek neighborhood in Boulder county should have known better.
  6. If Elon ran half of the ads I've seen on surly in the last hour he would have the 44 billion paid off already.
  7. Holy shit at the number and irrelevance of the ads. Dave and busters, and cat snacks showing up on my phone at the same time. The three schlotzsky's ads on this page though might actually convince me not to ever go there for dinner.
  8. It's all laughs because it's Twitter. What if he bought Ford or GM, or Boeing, or a too big to fail bank and tried running it into the ground? Would the government step in and replace him given their too big to fail status?
  9. I know REK wrote it but didn't want to post the aggy version
  10. If you didn't use that as an excuse to get "one last blowjob" from your wife that's on you.
  11. He successfully use Twitter to pump and dump crypto and tsla stock. In his mind that meant he was a Twitter genius and knew how to run the company. Turns out he was wrong and should have just kept with the tweet grift especially after the SEC proved they had no real desire to punish him.
  12. I'm going to start referring to sharts as rapid unscheduled evacuations.
  13. Did you answer that a hair in your soup would not bother you? If so I'd like to invite you to come on down to bisques and pubes, Austin's hottest lunch spot.
  14. Apparently her base salary is 1.1M and she made 4.8M last year, hence the employee anger.
  15. They got tired of clobbering big city prices, so they started clobbering themselves.
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