Ready For Some Electoral Deja Vu?

Now that the conventions are over and the presidential campaign can really begin, have you every wondered if something like the electoral chaos that surrounded the 2000 election could happen again? USA Today has, and presents a series of scenarios that could thrown the country into a state of post-election higgledy-piggledy. Statisticians have figured plausible scenarios that could lead to both another Bush win in the Electoral College without winning the popular vote and a Kerry victory obtained the same way. It's even possible for the two candidates to end with a 269-269 tie. That scenario, which would send the selection of the president to the House and vice-president to the Senate could result in a hybrid administration in 2005: how about Bush-Edwards for four years!