Yeah, it made it really hard to care. Politics is apparently so meaningless in this universe that a.) No one cares that Tom James and the Speaker attempted to steal the presidency from the two candidates people actually voted for; and b.) No one cares that Montez and Doyle actually did conspire to steal the presidency…

It is a little hard to see how you could end up with an actual deadlock in this apparently non-partisan, non-ideological universe. No one seems to really care who becomes president as a substantive matter, so why would all of these members of Congress fight to the death for candidates who in many cases aren't even…

In fairness Armando Ianucci already established the show as taking place in an alternate universe where someone can become Vice President without ever having an established position on abortion rights.

Not if real world Constitutional rules apply. Meyer was the Vice President, and when President Hughes resigned she became President in accordance with the Constitution. Meyer was president just as LBJ and the many other VP's who became president for the remainder of a presidential term were. Montez is not in that…

Montez, in winning even the way she won it, technically is the winner of the 2016 election. She will serve a full four-year term, which is something Selina Meyer never did.

Majority of the "whole number" means the whole senate, not just the quorum. So it is 51 votes, not 34.

Yeah, I 100% agree with this. I think it's a ridiculous explanation, I was just pointing out that this seems to be the in-universe explanation. Tom James is so beloved that no one will care that he is effectively launching a coup. In the real world both Tom James and the Speaker would get eaten alive for trying to…

There are some crazy scenarios they could have explored if they stuck to the actual Constitution. For example, the 50-50 Senate vote creates a deadlock leaving no President-elect or VP-elect on Inauguration Day. The Speaker of the House becomes acting president, but he likely also has to resign his House seat in the…

"a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice". A majority of the whole number of senators is 51, not 50 plus the VP. The VP is President of the Senate but is not a senator.

Yeah, I am pretty confident that you are right that 51 senators would be needed to choose a VP.

I think the idea was that the Speaker was an ally of Tom James. He was foreclosing future votes so that Tom James could remain as acting president after being chosen as VP-elect by the Senate. And apparently the public would go along with this because and not riot because Tom James is just so darn popular. Now that…

Can't the House do what it wants?

Because Tom James is not a candidate for president. The Electoral College votes separately for President and Vice President. If no one has a majority for either job the House votes on the presidency and the Senate votes on the Vice Presidency.

That wouldn't work constitutionally, but then neither would the show's apparent plan to make Selina Tom James' VP. If the VP-elect becomes acting president he or she does not get to nominate a VP.

IIRC, the Constitution does not actually say how the state delegations go about voting. Does a state's vote count for Meyer if the majority of all House members from the state vote for her, or if a majority of those members present and voting vote for her? I believe that's determined by the rules agreed to by the…

One thing that is a bit weird is that the show seems to suggest that Tom James will be elected to a four year term as President. That's not how it works. If the House fails to choose a President but the Senate selects a Vice President then the VP-elect becomes acting president on Inauguration Day, not "President". The…

If Jon is really Lyanna's son then he is Sansa's first cousin. Though I guess that's not that bad by Targaryen standards.

Yeah, it's been written elsewhere that if you step back from the show's perspective Dany looks a lot like a villain. Setting three dragons, a Dothraki horde, and a bunch of mercenaries (the Second Sons) loose in Westeros isn't likely to go well for the common people, regardless of what rules she thinks she can make…

I have this sinking feeling that the show is heading towards a genuine religious conversion for Margaery.

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