like this current poll from reuters, who asks people who have already voted, who they cast their vote for. reuters found that among registered voters, 17% of people say they have already cast their vote. and among those people who say they ve already cast their vote, president obama leads by 11 points. this is what early voting looks like in indianapolis these days. these pictures were sent to us by the county clerk s office in marion county, indiana, in indianapolis. we ve been getting pictures of our blog from all sorts of people around the country of what early voting looks like where you live, which is really cool. please keep sending us stuff at maddowblog.com. the indianapolis, the crowds have apparently been so big this year that the county clerk says that early voting is up 49% over this same time frame in the last presidential election year. they re up 49% in early voting over 08, in indianapolis. wow. they are doing everything they can to deal with the crowds in that city.
269 electoral college tie. this is not something we would have to make it up on the spot. the founders talked about what would be the right thing to do in a circumstances like this. and it turns out what they thought was a very strange thing. so according to the 12th amendment, it s the house of representatives who gets to choose who is the president. but, they do not vote on who s going to be president the way they normally vote on things in the house. in that circumstance, when they re making that specific decision, each state just gets one vote per state. so no matter how many members of congress there are from each
they did vote for. like this current poll from reuters, who asks people who have already voted, who they cast their vote for. reuters found that among registered voters, 17% of people say they have already cast their vote. and among those people who say they ve already cast their vote, president obama leads by 11 points. this is what early voting looks like in indianapolis these days. these pictures were sent to us by the county clerk s office in marion county, indiana, in indianapolis. we ve been getting pictures of our blog from all sorts of people around the country of what early voting looks like where you live, which is really cool. please keep sending us stuff at maddowblog.com. the indianapolis, the crowds have apparently been so big this year that the county clerk says that early voting is up 49% over this same time frame in the last presidential election year. they re up 49% in early voting over 08, in indianapolis. wow. they are doing everything they can to deal with the cro
this is the united states supreme court. the reason states are not allowed to ban abortion right now and the federal government is not allowed to ban abortion right now is because of a 1973 supreme court ruling called roe versus wade. right now the ideological balance of the court is such that if an outright challenge to roe versus wade were heard in this court, the vote, we think, would likely be a 5-4 decision to keep roe versus wade, to protect a woman s right to have an abortion. if the makeup of the court changes by one justice, though, it would be about five seconds before conservatives got a case challenging roe into the court, once they were sure that the ruling would be 4-5 instead of 5-4. with four supreme court justices over the age of 70, whoever becomes president is likely to be able to appoint at least one new supreme court justice. and if it is a republican president, he will appoint nominees who will definitely vote to overturn roe versus wade. and abortion will then, i
state, no matter how big the state s population, each state gets an equal vote. so in this scenario that get us to an electoral tie between mitt romney and president obama, mitt romney wins more states. he wins 29 states to obama s 21 states. which means that if the house of representatives voted, mitt romney would be elected by the house of representatives. nobody can instruct the state congressional delegations exactly how to cast their ballots, they get to decide on their own. you would think they would vote the way their state voted and work it out in their own mini democracies or something. but if they did that the way their states voted, this is who we would end up with. what if we ended up instead 25 states picking president romney and 25 states picking president obama. there is no tie breaker in that case. you know who becomes president in that circumstances? not mitt romney, not president obama, but this guy, speaker of the house john boehner.