Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "What Happens If a Presidential Candidate Dies Before the Election? (and the 25th Amendment)" video.

  1. Thinking of death of prominent figures bring's another scenario to play, one, that was in this election more likely than before, because of participants' age. What if Biden had died of natural causes and Trump recieved a fatal heart attack from joy/shock of surviving Biden? Or what if the two candidates were killed off simultaniously, say someone got an explosive, despite all the precautions, in to such a range, that both kandidates would be affected, say at a debate? Would this be just combination of what was told so far? Would that be completly uncharted waters?
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  2. Maaan... this is mess. There needs to be ammendment for such scenarios. Sure, they are rare and not note worthy... until 2020 decide's it's not had enough fun and takes them both. Ultimately I believe there is a problem with democratic principles if current rules as layed out before us were to be utilised. All of them! One rule would result in being elected simply by the virtue of being alive or atleast undead, others could get under fire from angry voters in courts or from angry house, which could even be poised to act against it's own will. Again, because of single surviving candidate in a two way election. I don't like, what I'm about to write, but... The only way forward is to set what siting vice president can and can't do in the interim and call for new elections with all their glory and all their horror to elect a new president in at most one year time. There has been so much campaigning, so many promises made... People, at least some of them, have been swayed by all of that mess and knowing these thigns they were going to vote, or perheaps even have already voted, in a particular way because of those campaigns. What about a situation, where the vice president would get chosen on the count of his proffesionality, but had completly different world view? That is not what the electorate voted for! Nobody would ever consider such unlikely scenario when deciding their vote. Again, I don't like it at all, but I feel this is the only way.
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