Quote Originally Posted by Bruno View Post
Any one candidate needs 270 electoral votes if I remember correctly.
Otherwise the choice for the President gets decided by house of representatives.
If no VP has an electoral majority, his choice gets passed to the senate.

But since the P and VP run together, I fail to see how it would be possible for them have a different number of electoral votes. Perhaps this is something from earlier days when they were not tied together?
Actually the answer is you'd end up with an idiot like Chuck Norris as president.