It's as though decades of selecting male offspring somehow resulted in females being able to be highly selective about who they marry. Can't imagine who could have predicted that.

What virtue signal? The driver of that truck is proudly declaring that he is a pedophile who is also a hunter.

Bangladesh is pretty friendly to the US. But as long as Myanmar is keeping their problems internal, I would expect that Bangladesh doesn't want to inspire any possibility of the Myanmar military junta deciding to attack them for supplying rebels.

He's a "l'etat, c'est moi" type, so probably.

Two countries without a border going to war, and neither one about to invade the intervening countries just to get land access, and every missile could be a nuke or dirty bomb? That's a lot of incentive to fire your nukes first and try to take out the other side's ability to nuke back. Scary.

North Korea is currently experiencing a severe famine with people freezing in the northern part of the country, aren't they? I expect Kim is trying tantrum diplomacy again, trying to get people to pay attention and provide aid, and having everyone ignore him is driving him nuttier than usual.

I strongly suspect that the Russian troops in Belarus are the ones who could pay the bribes to not get sent to Ukraine. If faced with actual fighting in Belarus, they'll again take the life-saving way out.

They can issue any demands they like, they're not convincing the Republican trifecta government to change anything. The Republicans would love to see NH residents get mad at Democrats for abandoning the state in the primary; no one's going to get mad at the Republicans for not giving up something that NH has as a point of pride. This is the stupidest thing I've seen a political organization do that wasn't the Florida Democratic Party.

"Lara Croft Below."

You can go without dressing up. One way you can do it is to put your costume together over time from things you get at the fair itself, so the costume itself is a memento of your visits.

You can also always dress up as Deadpool because Deadpool goes anywhere, or as the Doctor from Doctor Who because time-travellers are always period-appropriate.

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Depends on the implementation. You would generally not have a geographically-designated representative, but you would have representatives from your party of choice who would represent your interests, and if your party is large enough to be statewide, they likely would assign representatives geographically, or something like that. But you could also do proportional representation by county, in which case you'd have multiple representatives from your county but none specifically attached to your town.

The NH Constitution requires that any town large enough to qualify for a representative of its own has to get one - if the town has at least 1/400th of the state population, it has to get a rep. That makes the algorithmic solutions harder.

I would favor 'open period for anyone to submit maps, and the constitutionally-compliant map with the shortest total length of district boundaries is automatically adopted.' Make it open to absolutely everyone and have a simple nonpartisan mathematical formula that specifies which map wins.

Alternatively, do away with districts and just use proportional representation so whichever party gets the most votes gets the most seats.

Some towns aren't large enough to get a representative of their own, because the voting has to be even by humans-per-representative. So a town of 15 people doesn't get the same representation as a town of 15,000 people. Therefore they need to draw districts allocating people to different areas that one person will represent in the legislature. They have to give a rep to any town big enough to merit one of their own.

That's exactly the point I got to. It's very specific about Senate ties, but not about what the procedure is for ties in the House. I agree that it's weird, and that was why I wondered if I was just overlooking some relevant section.

Yes, that's what the news articles were saying. But I went to go look up the exact law about how to handle ties for a House seat, and couldn't find language saying that ties for House seats go to a joint session of the House and Senate the way Senate, EC, and Governor ties would. I thought I'd toss it out here and see if someone could find the correct statute or section of the constitution that governs House ties.

Yeah, I will not be too surprised if they come to some kind of power-sharing agreement so that every day doesn't start with a motion to vacate the chair based on who attended that day. The Republicans wouldn't want to risk being shut out themselves if they tried to shut out Democrats at the start, or at least might not so a "we both agree to joint control" thing might happen.

Hmm... Interesting. I'm looking at the statutes and NH Constitution regarding how ties are handled. For Senator, Governor, and Executive Councilor, there's explicit language specifying what to do. But I'm not seeing the exact language for handling ties in the House.

660:24 State Offices in State General Elections. – If the candidates having the highest number of votes for the office of governor, councilor, state senator, or state representative shall have an equal number, the choice shall be made as provided in the state constitution. Such candidate chosen shall then be declared duly elected. (http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/LXIII/660/660-24.htm)

So that says "look at the state constitution." But I'm not seeing where the state constitution says that ties in House races get thrown to the legislature to be resolved, only for the other offices. https://www.nh.gov/glance/house.htm

Can anyone point me to the section of the constitution that specifies how ties in the House are handled, if one exists? "As provided in the state constitution" implies that one should, but I don't see it unless it's meant to indicate 'using the same process as the others,' but that's not the plain reading of the language.

Could be that they throw it back for a special election, which would be a very, very interesting situation.

There's also https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-new-hampshire-recount-that-went-on-for-19-months/ - another federal seat, but I suspect it'd take more looking through records to find a ton of data about state house seats, since it's almost never been close enough that a couple of flips would make the news.

Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_New_Hampshire for a quick rundown of party control over time, no, this looks like this is literally the closest the chamber has ever been to parity. If you mean 'close seats flipping in recounts,' then yes, with so many seats and so relatively few votes for each seat, I expect it has. There's also the notable case of Durkin v Wyman for the 1974 Senate seat, which ultimately was declared by the US Senate to be vacant and a new election held because the deadlocked Senate couldn't come to an agreement on the resolution otherwise (https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/electing-appointing-senators/contested-senate-elections/137Durkin_Wyman.htm).