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[kaijyuu]

Then I'd be asking why he's not the President instead.

[MonkeyHead]

What if he is the reason that all the senior staff have are out of action? :/

[Darvi]

which is too bad as the current system is broken as hell.

More or less broken than the fact that Americans on american ground cannot vote?

[Reelya]

What would happen if the President died and the Veep took over, do they inaugurate another Veep or not? Or would America be Veepless until the next election?

[penguinofhonor]

I believe they appoint another VP, the same going for any other positions down the line if we're going multiple steps down.

[Duuvian]

What if he is the reason that all the senior staff have are out of action? :/

Romney won the election in that case.

Batman and the guy from the Alpha Protocol game teamed up to dangle cabinet members upside down from the tallest skyscrapers to combat election shenanigans.

Seriously though, why not make voting digital with a whole bunch of funding and security? That would make it easy to have a popular vote and with enough data backups and data 'traps' that could duplicate and send instances to 3rd parties you'd be able to store fraud indefinitely.

As long as the system was viewably open source, but not meddlingly so it would be obvious if fraud was committed as long as people who can't be bothered would trust those darn intellectuals who would actually be checking the code to make sure it's legit.

[BlueMagic]

Slightly OT, but someone on Tumblr pointed out that Romney and Obama look like they're singing during the debates

I'd watch "Presidential Debates" the musical

[Reelya]

Haha, that was the first thing that came to mind, i don't normally caption anything.

[SalmonGod]

Somebody posted a link to a songified version of the first debate already.  If I wasn't at work, I'd go dig it up.

[Frumple]

Man, I dunno. I've got like ten bucks of spendable money to my name. I'd pay that much to see those two do a musical number together. You know that pair could get a mad rage-on burning for each other and channel that into awesome broadway level shenanigans. Or at least fake it well enough no one could tell the difference.

It might go a long way into breaking down the partisan loggerheads, too.

...

Of course, now I can't get the thought out of my head that whichever of them wins... just after the inauguration, they're going to divorce their spouses and spontaneously elope. Right after the acceptance speech. Like, right on camera and everything. I can see it, in my mind. The declaration of living a lie. The embrace. The tearful explication, of how the stress and constant pressure from their parties led them to find solace... in each other's arms. It'd be like romeo and juliet in the new millennium. With the original message that love makes you batshit insane and everything. I'unno. Three AM. Sleepy, I think.

I can't help but wonder, somewhere in my head. Would that scenario cause an impeachment hearing? On what grounds?

[Gantolandon]

By the time the nation is led by the secretary of agriculture things have gotten pretty bad.

Like, getting-annexed-by-uganda bad.

Or your planet has been nuked by murderous robots.

Oh, wait, that's with the Secretary of Education.

[sluissa]

I personally prefer it when Jim Lehrer steals the spotlight.

Eye of the Sparrow

[Nadaka]

What if he is the reason that all the senior staff have are out of action? :/

Romney won the election in that case.

Batman and the guy from the Alpha Protocol game teamed up to dangle cabinet members upside down from the tallest skyscrapers to combat election shenanigans.

Seriously though, why not make voting digital with a whole bunch of funding and security? That would make it easy to have a popular vote and with enough data backups and data 'traps' that could duplicate and send instances to 3rd parties you'd be able to store fraud indefinitely.

As long as the system was viewably open source, but not meddlingly so it would be obvious if fraud was committed as long as people who can't be bothered would trust those darn intellectuals who would actually be checking the code to make sure it's legit.

Why not go digital? fraud. A digital voting system that is difficult to corrupt with duplicate, forged or discarded ballots will have strong traceability back to the specific voter. And that system is easy to corrupt with direct bribes, intimidation and outright violence directed at people who vote a specific way.

[GoombaGeek]

Our massive armies will take America for themselves, and force them to grow all our food under the President of Agriculture while we go turn Toronto into a fusion bomb or something. Then we'll convert it to a communist welfare state just like we are now, bwahaha.

I forgot to mention the provincial system, too! It's pretty much the same, except the divisions are smaller and in different places, and there are separate provincial parties (Alberta Liberals aren't fully affiliated with the real Liberals I think). The most popular party gets their leader to be Premier, who don't do much on a federal level but are mostly in charge of the province (a pipeline from here to BC was opposed by the BC premier so Alberta couldn't do anything). Fun fact: The PCs [Progressive Conservative, the result of lots of mergers] could get away with anything in Alberta until they got outdone by a Republican-level right-wing party [Wildrose] (but they couldn't start openly hating the gayz because people care about that, one racist candidate got kicked out of the party) - once the Minister of the Environment flipped off a protestor, on camera... then he got chosen as party leader a few years later.

Spoiler: True fact (click to show/hide)

The other seats do the same thing as in the House of Commons, they argue about bills a lot.

[RedKing]

At least HomeSec is in last place, but we're probably already on the way to fascist dictatorship if we get that far down the line.

When HomeSec was first created in 2002, there were people wanting it to be #6.

There's a very good reason for that: you don't want the guy (or gal, in this case) whose job it is to thwart terrorist plots to go "Hmm.....plot to bomb the Capitol during the State of the Union....that would take out the five people above me. Maaaaaybe we'll just file that one under 'Do Later'."