can see a pathway to two-thirds. or it becomes clear that that s not going to happen with any of them. in which case you start looking around it and what you might call the b list of candidates, perhaps candidates you didn t come in thinking of as a strong possibility, but now you start looking around and saying could one of them perhaps put together a winning coalition? that s when the stage becomes set for a real surprise. and in terms of history, where st the greatest example of that? the second conclave of 1978. you had two very strong italian candidates who went into that conclave as obvious front runners. both had strong support through the first few ballots, but it became clear by really this point in the process, the fifth or sixth ballot, that neither one would get to two-thirds. so the cardinals began looking around and it was cardinal from vienna said maybe poland can give some hope. he said that to the elder
is one candidate is just a couple votes short of the two-thirds majority, if the other scenario plays itself out, which is votes have been divided across two or three candidates and it doesn t look like any one of those candidates is going to any time soon get to that threshold of 77 votes, which would represent two-thirds, they re going to have an awful lot of heavy lifting to do tonight to figure out either, a, can we reconfigure the alliances so one of those candidates gets more support? or, do we have to go shopping among the lengthy list of plausible but b list candidates we carried into this exercise? the feed we re looking at on our screen has a little busy video around it. we re looking at a separate feed at the same time just so you know at home. what you see there is not smoke coming out of the chimney. just so you know. we ll keep on watching. it is almost imminent we have to be within some degree of a few minutes because this should be when the second vote is being tallie
the i.r.s. blames the fiscal cliff and late changes to tax policies. not sure how to tell someone they won t be coming to your wedding? just send a note. the latest wedding trend on how to let your b list friends know they won t be there on your big day. it s never an easy job but couples are doing this so they don t have to break the news themself. send a note saying you will not be invited. you would be on a b list, in case somebody had to cancel, but you have to have a gift and suit ready to go. i love the explanation, you re getting married, you re not invited. governor, that s never happened to you. usually people don t bother to send a note. it does clear up ambiguity. lost in the mail? no, you re not invited. people like that have no future in politics.
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