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Politics : Be Free: Don't Vote FOR either Obama or McCain
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From: clutterer9/12/2008 10:12:50 AM
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Tie Vote? Obama-McCain 'Doomsday Scenario'
Presidential Election Could Result in 269-269 Electoral Vote Tie

By JENNIFER PARKER
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2008

RSS Predicting the outcome of a presidential election is dangerous sport, but some political junkies are playing the game, running the numbers and coming up with a November surprise: a possible tie between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain.

It's unlikely but there's a mathematical possibility of the 2008 presidential election coming down to a 269-269 electoral vote tie between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain.
(ABCNews Photo Illustration)Let's call it the "doomsday scenario," and while it's highly unlikely, it is a mathematical possibility.

"Given how close it's been in the last couple years, there are some reasonable scenarios that you could get to a tie," said John Fortier, a political scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of "After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College." "It's not the most likely scenario, but the states can add up that way where you have nobody getting to 270."

Under the sometimes wild and woolly American system of democracy, a presidential candidate must achieve at least 270 votes in the 538-member electoral college to win the White House.


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