What is misleading about President Polk’s description of what happened?

What would lead a historian to consider two events to have a relationship of correlation rather than causation

Why did richard and mildred loving have to go to washington, d.c. to get married?

In presidential elections if no candidate receives a majority of the election votes, a. the winner is decided by the house of representative’s. b. the current president remains in office for four more years. c. the winner is decided by the senate. d. a runoff election is held in december between the two candidates who received the most votes in the general election.