what if the US election comes down to a tie?
I was playing the CNN.com Presidential Showdown Game and what I thought was the most likely outcome looked like this :
To my big surprise, when I tried to figure out what the result would be, it was 269 electors for Kerry and 269 electors for bush!
If that happens, well, then the decision would go to the House of Representatives, with one vote for each state, which most certainly will mean a victory for Bush... He would then be the only president in US history to be miselected twice. Even more surprising is that in that case, the most probable vice-president (decided by the senate) would be John Edwards!
Also interesting to note is that, if that was ever to happen, then don't expect to know who is the president before January...
Let's hope it doesn't come down to this scenario (by the way, I looked in the "Internets" and found another prediction of a tie that uses a different electoral map projection, and another one one more that bank on elector Richie Robb from West Virginia voting for Kerry)
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