How about Constitutional Checkmate
The real issue in this is a President is not elected to these 49 United States, but Constitutionally must be elected by all 50 states, unless they have seceded from the Union as the Confederates did. Unless an event as that has taken place, the Constitution is not about Electoral Colleges or being ratified by Congress, but it is about the Union electing a President of all 50 states. Understand that any President can loose the popular vote as President Bush had, and win the electoral votes, along with numerous states, but no President can be President of these United States if he is not on the ballot or certified in all 50 states.
From another FR thread yesterday post 1,031 posted on Fri Jan 27 05:01:52 2012 by Gvl_M3 1 on http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2838105/posts?q=1&;page=1001
Really? Lincoln wasn't on the ballot in many Southern States.
And since the Constitution allows the State Legislatures to decide how Presidential Electors are selected, and does require that they be awarded to the winner of an popular election in the each state, the winner doesn't have to be on the ballot in any State.
It will be interesting to see if any of this actually does occur.