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Under a tie, the election would be thrown into the House of Representatives. Each state delegation in the House of Representatives would caucus individually, with each state getting one vote. How does this work?

Arkansas has four members in the House of Representatives: Three are Democrats and one is Republican. They would caucus together and cast their one for Obama (assuming he’s the nominee of course.) So the people of Arkansas could have voted for McCain, but in the House, they might likely vote for Obama. Ironically, John McCain might not win his home state of Arizona in this scenario, because there are 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans in his state’s delegation. A tie yields no vote obviously.

The Democrats have more state delegations than Republicans, and thus a 269-269 tie would elect the Democrat as President. Unless, Republican make some gains in the Congressional elections.