A 269 Tie This Year

If no presidential candidate receives a majority in the Electoral College, then the president will be selected by a vote of the House of Representatives, with each state receiving a single vote. If no vice presidential candidate receives a majority, then the vice president will be selected by a vote of the Senate.

Seems when George W. Bush Jr was running it came down to was it Gore running against him,Gore got the popular vote but Bush won the election and there was a big stink about that.
I was wondering could this happen this election,Obama get the popular vote but McCain gets elected,man I bet that will cause a big mess.
Beings you a pretty nice person besides educated I have a question,I started using mostly news media from you tube cause these Obama supporters give me such a bad time pointing our what I believe is truth about Obama and backing what I say up with source of my information,now since I'm using you tube news media they are telling me it is propaganda.
Don't ever win with this group so what's up with that?

There are a number of permutations that could lead to a 269 tie - so though the possibility is still unlikely there is a small chance of it happening particularly if the polls remain as tight as they do now. (I understand the mathematicians have calculated that there is a 2% chance of such a tie, but don't ask me what algorithms they have used to calculate this).

As said previously, if it is a tie, then it goes to the House of Representatives. As the outcome here would then be decided on state delegations, this would likely put Obama over the top - I understand that even on the most conservative of predictions, the Dems will have a majority of 2 in the state delegations in the house of representatives, and their majority is likely to be 5 or so.

If however some dem delegations defect (because the dem representatives are in republican states and might feel under pressure to 'defect' to save their political skins), then it could possibly end up in a tie in terms of delegations in the house of representatives (pretty unlikely though).

It that happens, then I understand it goes to the senate who then choose the vice-president who then acts as president. As the Dems are likely to have a good majority in the Senate, then presumably that would be Biden.