# Clinton, Trump or Johnson. Who would the House vote for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 5, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999 "2016-05-05T17:16:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999/21 "2016-06-30T08:23:29Z")
Legally, couldn’t the House just deadlock and the Senate then just elect Trump’s VP, who will presumably be more mainstream(we hope)? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999/22 "2016-06-30T09:09:26Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > But if the Dems decide Hillary is a lost cause and make a deal with 9 states to vote for not Trump it would work. They’d be utter morons to do that and that is one thing that would make me leave the Democratic Party. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999/23 "2016-06-30T10:32:11Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > No third party candidate is going to crack double digit support in any state in November. I won’t guess whether Johnson will win New Mexico, but Romney would almost certainly win Utah if he ran there. Problem is that winning 1 or 2 small states won’t throw the election to the House unless it’s already very close. (And for Romney to try to win a bigger state would probably just take the state away from Trump and give it to Hillary.) ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999/24 "2016-06-30T11:39:01Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > But if the Dems decide Hillary is a lost cause and make a deal with 9 states to vote for not Trump it would work. [“Maybe we could arrange for Phyllis Schlafley to jump out and grab you sometime.”](http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2009/03/16) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999/25 "2016-06-30T14:37:39Z")
Of all the nutty “How To Get Rid of Trump” ideas that have been floated here, this is the first one that made me stop for second and say: Hmmm, maybe! But of course the GOP establishment has an opportunity to thwart the will of the people at the convention and if they don’t do it there (and they won’t), they are not going to do it later. The party base that supports Trump would, literally, riot. I think the wisest thing the GOP “establishment” can do is ride this one out, concentrate on keeping Congress in their hands, and figure they’ll try again in 2020. Hopefully by then Trump will have lost and gone away. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999/26 "2016-06-30T14:45:48Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Of all the nutty “How To Get Rid of Trump” ideas that have been floated here, this is the first one that made me stop for second and say: Hmmm, maybe! But of course the GOP establishment has an opportunity to thwart the will of the people at the convention and if they don’t do it there (and they won’t), they are not going to do it later. The party base that supports Trump would, literally, riot. > > I think the wisest thing the GOP “establishment” can do is ride this one out, concentrate on keeping Congress in their hands, and figure they’ll try again in 2020. Hopefully by then Trump will have lost and gone away. I agree. Sometimes the best play in football is the punt. Time to admit defeat and turn their sights on 2020. Will Trump come back? I wouldn’t rule it out. I can just see the hype: “Bigger hands…oranger face… bigger hair… Trump is back and this time he’s not holding back!” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999/27 "2016-06-30T14:53:43Z")
Jill Stein polls almost as well as Johnson, guys. (one point difference in Reuters/Ipsos.) Why no love for her? Could it be that even in your weird fantasy lives you know she has no chance? Or, as the rest of us say, exactly as much chance as Johnson? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999/28 "2016-06-30T14:57:09Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > … prominent donors like the Kochs, could very well support Gary Johnson. … Prominent _donors_ are not going to throw their money away by switching from Trump to Johnson. The idea is ridiculous. They’ll just keep their money in their wallets. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999/29 "2016-07-09T22:08:05Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Legally, couldn’t the House just deadlock and the Senate then just elect Trump’s VP, who will presumably be more mainstream(we hope)? You want Chris Christie or the Newt for president? I might almost prefer trump. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-trump-or-johnson-who-would-the-house-vote-for/753999.md?page=1)