Bush/Edwards? Kerry/Cheney?

[quaoar]

If there were to be a tie in the Electoral College, as everyone knows, the House of representatives selects the next president.

But the vice president would be chosen by the Senate.

So if the House were to remain in republican control but the Senate becomes Democratic, you could have Edwards as Bush's new vice president.

Likewise, if we take the House and lose the Senate, we could have President Kerry and Vice President Cheney.

What a revolting thought!

[Radical Activist]

1. well not really

because that would all happen before the new congress is sworn in. We'll be stuck with the House and Senate we have now.

[aldian159]

2. unless there was such an impasse

due to numerous lawsuits and such, that a new senate is sworn in before the president is decided.

[quaoar]

3. Congress reconvenes as the new Congress

around Jan. 3. They would have been recessed until then.

http://wawa.essortment.com/whatiselectora_rhpc.htm

On the Monday following the second Wednesday of December, the electors meet in their respective state capitals and cast one vote each for the President and Vice President. To prevent electors from voting only for a “favorite son” candidate from their state, one vote must be for a candidate from another state. The presidential and vice presidential candidate with an absolute majority of the vote, one vote more than half of the total(270), is elected to office.

If the President is not selected by an absolute majority, the members of the House of Representatives casts one vote per state among the top three candidates with the most votes from the electoral college. a majority of two-thirds is then needed from the House of Representatives to elect the President.

If the House of Representatives is unable to choose the President by a majority, the current Vice President will act as President before the fourth day of March. The person with the greatest number of votes as Vice President will be the Vice President. If the electoral college was unable to select a Vice President by a majority, then the Senate shall choose the Vice President from the two candidates who received the most votes from the electoral college. a two-thirds majority is needed for the Senate to select the Vice President of the United States.