Showing posts with label Vice president. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vice president. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Lawyers and Presidential Tickets

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 Bruce Mehlman: Every Democrat nominated for President or Vice President for the past 40 years was a lawyer until Tim Walz. (21/22 D’s &...
Friday, August 2, 2024

Veeps Running for President

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The current situation is unusual.  Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson all stepped down after one elected ...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Counting Electoral Votes

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Joseph M. Bessette and Gary J. Schmitt have a report at AEI titled Counting Electoral Votes: How the Constitution Empowers Congress—and Not ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

51-49

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The victory of Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) gives Democrats a 51-49 majority in the Senate.   Louis Jacobson and Yacob Reyes at PolitiFact...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Continuity of Government and Presidential Succession

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 John C. Fortier and Norman Ornstein at AEI: The Continuity of Government Commission makes recommendations to ensure the continuity of the p...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The VP and the Counting of Electoral Votes

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At AEI, Joseph Bessette and Gary Schmitt find no support for the view that the Vice President has unilateral constitutional authority to res...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Vice President Harris and Demographic Trends

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 Kim Parker and Amanda Barroso at Pew note that Vice President Kamala Harris embodies several demographic trends: Harris has a multiracial b...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Nixon Announces that JFK Has Won

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On January 6, 1961, after the official counting of the electoral votes in a joint session of Congress, Vice President Richard Nixon announce...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Wikipedia and the Vice Presidency

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Micah Sifry writes at TechPresident: The act of observing something can sometimes change the thing being observed. Case in point: my obse...