Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DrALJONES</span></a></span> </p><p>this is a well known bug in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/twelfthamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twelfthamendment</span></a></p><p>the last time it happened was 1824, the house voted and that gave us president <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/johnquincyadams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>johnquincyadams</span></a> and defeated <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/andrewjackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>andrewjackson</span></a> who had the most popular votes</p><p>(and the anger from that led to the creation of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democratic</span></a> party- a very different party from today, like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lincoln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lincoln</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republican</span></a> party is nothing at all like the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> today)</p><p>the question is: can <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> engineer a tie?</p><p>i don't think that it could</p><p>i fear being proven wrong</p>