Timeline for Minority politics in the US
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| Nov 18, 2017 at 7:21 | answer | added | userLTK | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 17, 2017 at 22:47 | comment | added | Joe C | The idea of a "minority government" doesn't really exist in the US in the same way it would in the UK or Canada, given the clear separation of the legislative and executive branches that exists in the US. There is a mechanism for dealing with the case when no Presidential candidate gets an overall majority of the electoral college, but that's not quite the same as what I think you're asking. | |
| Nov 17, 2017 at 21:02 | comment | added | user1530 | Maybe this is a terminology issue, but, AFAIK, the US doesn't deal with minority/majority government concepts like a parliamentary system does. So, no, I don't think there are any specific rules/laws/mechanisms that would address that. | |
| Nov 17, 2017 at 20:53 | answer | added | HG Bruce | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 17, 2017 at 20:32 | comment | added | user4012 | This has already happened. Democrats had 48 or 49 seats and needed support of "independent" senators (who somehow voted almost 100% in sync with Democrats, but technically speaking they did get elected as "Independent") to gain majority - in other words, the theoretical setup you mentioned in second to last paragraph actually happened in reality. | |
| Nov 17, 2017 at 20:03 | history | edited | Twelfth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2017 at 19:48 | history | asked | Twelfth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |