They share the same electors. One votes for both offices at once.
Worst. Pitting. Ever. x 1,000,0000,00000000000000000000000000000000000
What, are y’all trying to say this is a ridiculous thing to get worked up about? Because if you are, I swear I’ll take this from the Pit to the Sub-Pit!
The BBC is using English, not your native customs. The sentence is just fine. The BBC does not adjust its language to accomodate native peculiarities.
It is not a usage issue. Their statement was factually incorrect.
I think a super scientific Internet poll is in order. Because I think even among US dopers, you’d come out on the losing end.
The independence of the VP was long ago. While his official duties are few, such as breaking a tie vote in the senate and sitting over joint sessions of the house and senate, his personal duties have been , in recent history, determined by the president. Lately they have been part of presidential teams and are thought to have great policy input. They often do work assigned by the president. So i doubt you can defend them as being independent and separate anymore.
That’s what I was wondering.
Seriously. The VP is a de facto member of the President’s administration and is as “under” the President in that regard as one can be. If the VP told the President he wasn’t interested in helping to advance the agenda of the White House and wanted instead to operate his office as the constitutionally independent entity it was intended to be, the President would simply tell him “Okay, go have fun breaking ties” and he’d be shut completely out of any responsibility whatsoever.
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Good God, don’t you see? Look, Paul Giamatti’s John Adams was subordinate to David Morse’s George Washington, but Paul Giamatti was the star of the series! I have charts! I have charts!
But in “Big Fat Liar” he was blue.
Maybe Cheney is Bush’s Chong
“Open up”
“Who is it?”
“Dick”
“Dick’s not here”
“No, it’s Dick. I got the stuff.”
“Dick’s not here”
“I’m Dick, open up”.
Or he’s Dick to Bush’s Tommy.
“My old man’s a Cotton Pickin’ Finger Lickin’ Chicken Plucker. What do you think about that?”
“I think we should go get Saddam!”
Don’t you mean the Vice-Pit?
I yelled “fire” when I fell into the chocolate.
They’re constitutionally required to be partners in the three-legged race at the annual White House picnic.
No it’s not. It’s just different phraseology to your local preference.
Funny. I could have sworn the Vice President of the United States is a member of the Cabinet. Who’s this Joe Biden fellow, then?
Maybe you’re right in the very specific case of Dick Cheney. But the rest of them?