That Electoral vote calculator sticks the map up as Obama at 273 and McCain at 265.  This differs from this day in 2004 which had Kerry at 269 and Bush at 253, and which glancing at seems to have included some outliers which screwed that particular day up.  I note the significance of this is that if you threw the states that were “tied” to Bush, the electoral vote would have come to 269 to 269.  Likewise, if you edge “New Hampshire” from Obama to McCain, it would 269 to 269.  Neither of this would precipate a Constitutional Crisis, as the vote would go over to the House and be voted on by state delegations, presumably by a more or less party-line vote, but it would lead to some hard feelings, I suspect, for such a convuluted and anarchronistic system.  Which means that a Constitutional Crisis would be ginned up just for the Hell of it… kind of… familiar.

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