Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Scenarios Involving the US Presidential Line of Succession

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:43:42 -0700, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <vepagj$4ib$1@panix2.panix.com>,
kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
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William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

From the Washington Post, in 2019:
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"The Post-U. Md. poll finds Marylanders oppose making the District a new
county in their state, a plan called “retrocession,â€? by 57 percent to 36
percent. There is little variation depending on political party, with
majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents all opposed."

 
That's a different plan: that is the complete return of DC to MD which
will involve now state control over DC.  Nobody likes that plan, and it
is disliked for reasons that go far beyond voting.
--scott

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The proposal I remember seeing was reducing the District to the Mall and
the Federal Triangle (including all of the Congressional office
buildings, the Supreme Court building and, of course, the White House
which would be the only residence in the District). Everything else
would be in Maryland.

So only the President, the First Lady, and any of their offspring who
were old enough and still living with them would be unable to vote
(for a Senator or Representative [1]).

1. I tend to use "Congresscritter" for both species.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"