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If Obama wins McCain is VP, If McCain wins Obama is VP - by the Constitution...

By scozad - Oct 4th, 2008 at 9:37 am EDT

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If Obama wins McCain is VP, If McCain wins Obama is VP - by the Constitution... That's how the Constitution says it works - by using the Electoral College.

Read it for yourself.

U.S. Constitution
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

Article 2 Section 1
(Electoral College)
".....In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President."

Gee It looks like the person running for president DOESN'T get to choose the VP! The person with the second highest votes in the Electoral College is the VP. Which means Constitutionally - while Bush is President Gore should have been VP! Chew on that one for a while... It means for who knows how long we haven't been electing president/vice president correctly by the Constitution.

Interesting huh?

"The first presidential candidate to choose his vice-presidential candidate was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States

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