state, no matter how big the state's population, each state gets an equal vote. so in this scenario that get us to an electoral tie between mitt romney and president obama, mitt romney wins more states. he wins 29 states to obama's 21 states. which means that if the house of representatives voted, mitt romney would be elected by the house of representatives. nobody can instruct the state congressional delegations exactly how to cast their ballots, they get to decide on their own. you would think they would vote the way their state voted and work it out in their own mini democracies or something. but if they did that the way their states voted, this is who we would end up with. what if we ended up instead 25 states picking president romney and 25 states picking president obama. there is no tie breaker in that case. you know who becomes president in that circumstances? not mitt romney, not president obama, but this guy, speaker of the house john boehner.