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Angry_Weasel
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« on: July 22, 2009, 05:48:34 PM » |
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Basically, if you get more than two-thirds (360 votes) of the electoral vote, you have a mandate and all of your major campaign promises that require congress are morally entitled to a up or down vote in Congress. If you get more than eighty percent (428 votes) of the electoral vote, you are the landslide victor and you are under no obligation to participate in bipartisanship. If you get more than 500 electoral votes AND have control of both houses, you have won in a gigantic landslide and are morally obligated pass all of your campaign promises within the next year. However, if you get less than 55% of the electoral vote (294 votes), you basically won in a barnburner and are morally obligated not to veto any legislation that has survived a Senatorial Fillibuster. Otherwise, in a fair and square election, everyone can morally plead which part of the constitution they can to block or implement the president's agenda.
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