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Reuters had an interesting article Sunday that theorized what would happen in the event that Barack Obama and John McCain tied for the presidency -- both with 269 electoral votes.  It takes 270 to become president.

There are many procedural moves that will take place and whatever happens would likely end up in a court battle.

However, the item I find most interesting is that each state's congressional delegation in the House of Representatives would get one vote for president.  That means Democrats Nick Rahall and Alan Mollohan and Republican Shelley Moore Capito would have to come to a decision about how to cast West Virginia's vote for president.

Considering that Rahall was an early supporter of Obama and Democrats overwhelmingly control West Virginia government at all levels, it looks fairly obvious West Virginia's vote would go to Obama.

But (and this is the fun part) would that go against the will of the people should the polls hold up and West Virginia pick McCain this November?

You bet it would!  We heard from folks in droves when the super delegates sided with Obama, despite West Virginia's large support for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.  People were appalled that Jay Rockefeller endorsed Obama so early -- well before West Virginians cast their ballots. 

The funny thing about that is the indignation of West Virginians never transferred to the voting booth.  Rocky picked up the highest amount of votes of any candidate in the May primary. 

So, people would probably be upset if West Virginia's congressional delegation voted for Obama, but they'd get over it in time to vote the incumbents back into office.