Saddling the president with a VP potentially from the opposite party is the one part of the Founding Fathers' original design for presidential elections that was such an immediate disaster they amended the Constitution to scrap it almost immediately, in 1804.https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1125434561171722242 …
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sorry for the spoiler
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They didn’t want to miss their shot
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He was a damn fool, that's for sure.
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So the disaster that is the Electoral College took a little longer to become apparent . . .
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Not quite. The 12th Amendment wasn't just because of that. It was because Jefferson and Burr had a unity ticket (because of the previous problems with POTUS and VP being from different parties) but there was no constitutional way to apportion votes for that.
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Wasn't Jon Tyler an opposing party VP to Harrison?
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It would also be a shame to lose the information candidates give us with their VP picks. The running-mate selection shows how the candidate is going to staff top jobs as president more reliably than does anything else.
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