Electoral College tie could pair Romney with Biden [with just NM and OH flipped from 2004]

TribLIVE ^ | 10/19/2012 | Salena Zito

[JediJones]

All Obama has to do is win every state Kerry won in 2004 plus New Mexico and Ohio, and he ties Romney 269-269.

Note that, by current RCP polling averages, this remains plausible. Every safe or leaning state would stay put and the current swing states would be split along 2004 lines, except for Ohio.

That means, assuming no electors go "rogue" and vote for the other party, next year the new House picks the President and the new Senate picks the Vice President.

In the House, each state gets 1 vote among the top 3 EV vote-getters, virtually guaranteeing Romney wins easily with well over 26 states already having a majority of Republican representatives.

The Senate picks the V.P. by a simply majority of votes among the Senators from among the top 2 EV vote-getters. So to prevent Biden from becoming V.P., the Republicans need to pick up 4 Senate seats.

[Combat_Liberalism]

If Biden were Romney’s VP, he would preside over the Senate. That is his constitutional role. There, he would get a vote only to break a tie. His other role would be to swear in new Senators. He would get little or nothing else. No trips to shake hands anywhere. The President runs the executive branch of the US Government, and the new President would in all likelihood cut funding to the VP’s office and not make life easy for the knucklehead. Also, extra Secret Service protection for the President would be warranted for obvious reasons.

[Repeal 16-17]

So “Vice President” would be, for Biden, a largely ceremonial title. UNLESS - something should happen to President Romney; then we have an idiot as President.

That's why Biden being Vice President would not be ceremonial. It would be a massive incentive for every Liberal attempt to assassinate President Romney. Such attempts would unquestionably happen.