Bush-Edwards??? I never knew this- it could really happen!!!

[richmwill]

Wow, I never knew this- very scary, if you ask me. From www.electoral-vote.com-

"Several people noticed that using the new interactive maps it is easy to produce a tie in the electoral college. In fact, if you look at the map for Aug. 6 and Bush wins Missouri, you have a tie. What is supposed to happen next is described on the Electoral college page, namely, the newly-elected House of Representatives chooses the president, with each state having one vote. Currently the Republicans control 31, the Democrats control 14, and 5 are tied. While the Democrats have a chance to recapture the majority of seats in the House, they have no chance in the world to capture a majority of the state delegations, especially since a number of the states in the West have one or two (well-entrenched) Representatives. Thus if the electoral college is tied and the House votes, Bush wins. However, all is not lost for the Democrats. The Senate picks the Vice President, so if the Democrats pick up the two seats needed to recapture the Senate, we get a hybrid administration: Bush-Edwards."

UN-be-f'n-lievable. Can you even imagine?

[The empressof all]

1. I don't think that automatically means it could be Edwards

I believe if this scenerio happens they could choose anyone. Could be Byrd, Kerry, or Popeye for that matter.

[AngryAmish]

3. Popeye has a long and distinguished service record

And eats a lot of spinich.

[Walt Starr]

2. Nope, it will be Bush/Cheney because the CURRENT Congress votes

not the next Congress.

And Illinois goes to Bush in that scenario as outlined here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x609223