2ACV03: All the Presidents' Heads
Review by Haynes Lee
CULTURAL REFEREMCES
Twilight Zone: Time Enough At Last classic 1959 episode starring Burgess Meredith
Lexx: Canadian sci-fi series starring a decapatitated
robot head named 790 who is even more saracastic
than Bender. See
http://buffy.acmecity.com/algul/184/790.htmlFOLKLORE ALERT
[email] (Haynes Lee) wrote:
In all practicality, a Presidential (or Senate or Congressional) election can't be decided by "one vote" (unless you count "one Electoral vote", and even that was fixed); if a Presidential vote in any state is THAT close, and Legislature of that state was controlled by the losing party, they would probably call for recount after recount until either their party's candidate won or they got tired of the whole thing; similarly for a Senate or Congressional election where the current controlling party lost, as "each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns, and Qualifications of its own Members" (U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 5, first paragraph). (This actually happened - I think it was in the House of Representatives in 1984; the controlling Democrats kept calling for recount after recount until the Democrat ended up ahead, after which they said "that's the one that counts".)
Was it the hotel or the apartment building? (Or are they the same thing?)
If you're referring to the "Rosemary Woods incident", it was about 17 minutes.
But here's one that everybody else seemed to have missed: A reporter said that "nobody can be elected President more than twice", but Nixon was running for President of Earth; had he ever held that office before? (Or is there some law saying that nobody who had been elected President of the United States twice could be elected President of Earth?)
In article , [email] wrote:
Not at all, I just didn't comment on it cuz I've really not been posting much to this group..
Perhaps he merely paraphrased the law, which in its full text reads something like:
No(a space accidentally included here for some reason)body elected to the Presidency of Earth, or the Presidencies of any of its constitutent republics shall hold the office for more than two terms.
Or something like that, but with more legalese.