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However, the joke... 
may be on Obama!
Posted on 10/25/2012 10:09:48 AM PDT by Bender2
What if the 2012 Presidential Election Ends in a Tie?
October 25, 2012
Thomas Fitzgerald
The final days of a close race for the White House, like the one now unfolding between President Obama and Mitt Romney, are always loud, tense, and messy, but most end with a clear result.
What if this year is different, and Nov. 6 is only the beginning of the chaos?
What if it ends in a tie?
An Electoral College tie -- with each man getting 269 votes instead of the 270 needed to win -- is possible, analysts say, a result that would unleash enough political and legal disorder to make people yearn for the tamer controversy over "hanging chads" in the 2000 Florida recount.
In a tie scenario, the Constitution says the House of Representatives would choose the next president, and the Senate would choose the vice president -- provided no members of the Electoral College desert their candidate. There's a term for this phenomenon: faithless electors.
(Excerpt) Read more at hispanicbusiness.com ...
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However, the joke... may be on Obama!
Maine is one of just two states that allows a presidential candidate to pick-up an electoral vote even if he/she loses the state. President Obama is firmly ahead in Maine's 1st Congressional District, but recent polls show that Romney is within striking distance in Maine's more conservative 2nd District. And, with national pundits beginning to consider the prospect of a tie in the national electoral college, even one electoral vote could make a difference on Election Day.
And what can that lead to? See below:
Here to your 2nd place finish... 
Barry!
Not this again.
Romney is likely to pick up Ohio which would be enough and now Michigan is looking increasingly winnable and I think Wisconsin is another possible.
Just an oversight on my part.
Hell I can’t stand Romney but the writing is on the wall writ large. Benghazi was the final straw for Obama and it gets worse by the hour.
We could sure use some freezing rain in Detroit on election night.
It won’t. Problem solved.
Ohio will not go to Obama. Difficult to see how it gets tied if Romney wins OH.
OK, it’s a unlikely overall outcome, but combined with a Romney popular win, my, but the Leftys will SQUEAL!!!
From your keyboard to God’s ears....and in St Louis, and Philly, and Milwaukee.....
All across Michigan the papers are endorsing Romney now. Even in Detroit.
Tony is out to sea and heading east. No chance for US landfall.
We’re expecting the first snow by Tuesday or Wednesday right on schedule.
It won’t be a joke and no one will be laughing. The left already hold great contempt for the Constitution after 2000. This time might bust a gasket if its tossed to the House. Those threatened riots on Twitter by those lacking an education on how the Constitution works just might actually happen.
But I don’t think that scenario is likely. If Romney wins IA and/or NV (Dirty Harry knows how to win close races, wink, wink) then he’s gonna win OH and NH.
Would hope and think so (PA). As for the ME 2nd dist
scenario it would give new meaning to “As Maine goes so goes the nation”. Or at least part of Maine. I think that dist. tends to go Dem though...home of Stephen King, moonbat (Bangor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine%27s_2nd_congressional_district
>> It is the largest district east of the Mississippi River and the 24th-largest overall. The district consists of all of the state north of the Portland and Augusta areas. It includes the cities of Bangor, Lewiston, Auburn, Waterville, and Presque Isle.
What IF its a ROUT... with 41 million PLUS Tea Party voters that cannot be polled...
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