Economist.com's latest election forecast is 269-269

For a brief moment last election it looked as if it was going to be split tie with the democrat house choosing the president and the republican senate choosing the vp. Imagine all the drama with a Biden Presidency with a DJ VP that would've occurred. We can only hope it'd go to it this time.

Founding fathers thought it would be really, really funny if there was a tie.

Electors are calculated based on each individual state -- one for each Senator (two) plus an amount scaled for the amount of Representatives.

You don't just "add more electors" because that's not how they are summed.

The Constitution has a function built in in the event of a tie in the 12th Amendment:

• The House of Representatives chooses the next President. However each separate state casts a single vote, regardless of population, meaning that California and Kansas are considered equal in this scenario, just like how British parliamentary bullshit goes.

• The Senate chooses the next Vice President.

inb4 "that's r-slurred"

There is absolutely no written law or mandate in the UK that there has to be a Prime Minister, and there is absolutely no governing procedure to determine how he is chosen. The King just randomly points at someone and says "you." Parliament does a vote and makes a suggestion and quite often it is who the King wants for the job that doesn't exist. !burgers they actually do this in England:

The office of prime minister is not established by any statute or constitutional document, but exists only by long-established convention, whereby the monarch appoints as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the House of Commons.

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It's so !grillers get represented, genius

The tie break can also tie btw

But I think it's unlikely this time around

I'm pretty sure this is Nate Silver's fault somehow.

The electors are apportioned according to the number of each state's Senators and Representatives, to mimic the compromise established for the legislative branch. So far, so good.

When the size of the House of Representatives was fixed at 435 instead of increasing with population, there were 48 states with 96 Senators (two per state), making for 531 electors. Adding Hawaii and Alaska to the union added 4 Senators so made 535 electors. But then they messed it up by giving 3 electors to the District of Columbia because they whined about not getting to vote for President since it is not a state, which makes 538.

They aren't evenly split among states....

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Just because you're acknowledging your comment is Reddit doesn't make it any less Reddit

I can't believe the election is 6 days away

What if Dems are only capable of cheating in half the swing states

I was told by a Vedec astrology shaman that queen Kamala is destined to win Nevada

It was correct to tag me but why did you do it?

We need more radical centrist representation

At this point I'm fairly sure that these simulation sites deliberately try to make it 50-50 so they can pretend to be right regardless of who wins

id laugh

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That's 6 votes not percentage points so I think they're just changing Nevada prediction

Thats the EC votes man