Today, Electoral Vote details a nightmare scenario in which Kerry wins the popular vote and the electoral vote and still manages to lose the election.
According to the Votemaster, if Colorado passes a popular referendum to split up its electoral college votes proportionally...
If Bush is 1% ahead in Colorado, he would get 5 votes in the electoral college and Kerry would get 4, changing the score to Kerry 269, Bush 269. If West Virginia Bush elector Richie Robb votes for a Republican other than Bush, as he has threatened, then the score becomes Kerry 269, Bush 268. [Because 270 votes are required to win the election, i]n both cases the election is decided by the new House with each state getting one vote. In all scenarios, the Republicans will control the majority of delegations in the new House, so the House will elect Bush.
D'oh!
Depending on who controls the Senate, Cheney or Edwards becomes vice president. Could go either way.
Hey, that sounds like a sitcom waiting to happen. In each episode, Bush whips up some cockamamie scheme to maim Edwards, but then at the last minute Bush is won over by Edwards's charm and decides not to spring his trap. But then he forgets about the trap and gets caught in it himself! And then he tries again next week. Laughs for the whole family. Oh, but wait...
If the Democrats hang onto the Louisiana Senate seat, as they have for over 100 years. there is a good chance the Senate will be split 50-50. In that case, Cheney gets to cast the deciding vote.
The system works!
Sounds like a plot to the TV show I miss dearly "That's My Bush"
Tee hee.
Dear God somebody find an expert who will tell me this isn't true. All except the sitcom part. That would rawk.
As Rumsfeld said...
"Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet."
Classic Rummy. Of course, he was supposedly talking about Iraq...
Yeah, I love that quote too, because it totally ignores the problem with the impending Iraq election -- that it would disenfranchise one particular group. Is an election that leads to a racially-motivated civil war better than no election at all? I think it's a toss-up.