Live Blogging My Drunk Reaction To A Totally Amazing Way That Nancy Pelosi Could Be President

This ABC News article is calling it a doomsday scenario, but I call it a parrrrrtaaay!

Get a load of this:

Under the sometimes wild and woolly American system of democracy, a presidential candidate must achieve at least 270 votes in the 538-member electoral college to win the White House.

If, for example, Obama wins all the states Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., won in 2004, and picks up Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico, McCain and Obama would each win 269 electoral college votes -- locking the presidential election in a tie.

Admit it, you'd love for this to happen.

So what would happen next? What, you don't know how the U.S. Constitution works? Shame on you!

Under the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, if one candidate does not get 270 votes, the decision gets kicked to the House of Representatives, where each state gets a vote -- a formula that would likely guarantee an Obama victory.

"Each state delegation would have one vote and whoever won a plurality of that state's delegation would get that state's vote," said Stephen Wayne, a presidential scholar at Georgetown University.

If the election is kicked to the House, Obama or McCain would have to control a majority of the 50 state delegations to win the White House. The newly elected and re-elected House members would vote in any doomsday scenario, Fortier said.

Currently, the Democrats hold a 26-21 lead among state delegations in the House, with three states split down the middle: Arizona, Kansas and Mississippi.

The Democrats are expected to pick up even more House seats in November, which suggests Obama would coast to victory.

If neither presidential candidate gets a 26-state delegation majority in the House, then all eyes will be on the Senate, which picks the vice president in any doomsday scenario.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that you shouldn't be reading this if you're not drunk, like I am.

Seriously, do we not have the most ridiculous and antiquated electoral system in the entire world?

You can thank the anti-federalists like Patrick Henry for this, who gave us the convoluted states' rights world we live in.

On the other hand, without anti-federalism, this country could've ended up being ruled by one evil leader, a King, if you will, which totally hasn't been the case for the past seven years.

Ok, I just took a big swig of beer and am ready to share the end of the doomsday scenario:

But what if there was a tied electoral vote, neither presidential candidate could get a 26-state delegation majority in the House, and the Senate deadlocked on the vice presidential pick?

Then, Fortier said, the Presidential Succession Act would kick in.

"That would be the speaker of the House," Fortier said, " So the acting president would be Rep. Nancy Pelosi."

If Congress never decides on the president or the vice president, the speaker of the House could serve all four years as president, Fortier said.

Hot. Gay marriage, free college and food stamps, and open borders for everyone!