Will Romney Contest an Electoral Loss if He Wins Popular Vote, As Bush Planned To Do in 2000?

[buzzman]

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17622-will-romney-contest-an-electoral-loss-if-he-wins-popular-vote-as-bush-planned-to-do-in-2000

BuzzFlash goes back a long way to its founding in May of 2000, so we were around for the full 2000 election campaign.

Looking through some article print outs from the 2000 election, we came across this one from the New York Daily News, "Bush Set To Fight An Electoral College Loss" (November 1, 2000):

They're not only thinking the unthinkable, they're planning for it.

Quietly, some of George W. Bush's advisers are preparing for the ultimate "what if" scenario: What happens if Bush wins the popular vote for President, but loses the White House because Al Gore's won the majority of electoral votes?…

So what if Gore wins such crucial battleground states as Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania and thus captures the magic 270 electoral votes while Bush wins the overall nationwide popular vote?

"The one thing we don't do is roll over," says a Bush aide. "We fight."

How? The core of the emerging Bush strategy assumes a popular uprising, stoked by the Bushies themselves, of course.

In league with the campaign - which is preparing talking points about the Electoral College's essential unfairness - a massive talk-radio operation would be encouraged. "We'd have ads, too," says a Bush aide, "and I think you can count on the media to fuel the thing big-time. Even papers that supported Gore might turn against him because the will of the people will have been thwarted."

[Robbins]

1. No

Obama Is going to win both popular vote and electoral vote.

[swayne]

2. As long as Obama remembers to CLAIM THE ELECTORAL WIN...nothing else matters.

The Supreme Court ruled that the reason the Bush eventually won the 2000 election.

[Jennicut]

3. Requires a Constitutional Amendment.

Bush had a much easier path with the Supreme Court and stealing the electoral college win.

[Blue Idaho]

4. What are the odds?

2% - 10% - 30%?

Do you think the President's campaign organization has a contingency plan as well?

[msongs]

5. far as Ive heard the constitution allows no wiggle room regarding who legally wins nt