Is there a chance the House of Representatives will pick the next President?

Question

The 12th amendment to the constitution states that when electoral votes are cast, a person must recieve a majority (not plurality) of the votes to become the president elect. Let's suppose a Guliani gets the nomination and Christian conservatives make good on their threat to vote for a third party candidate before they vote for a Republican who is pro-choice. If Rudy gets more independent votes than the Democratic candidate and the third party candidate gets most of the Christian conservative votes, there is a chance (albeit unlikely) that no candidate will recieve the majority. Am I reading the 12th Amendment correctly? Will the House, by state, actually chose the next President? And how does the voting by state work? Does each state get one vote?

This from a conservative group:
http://illinoisconservative.com/blog/2007/10/06/christian-group-okays-third-party

Also, please think hypothetically. More than anything, I'm trying to understand the 12th amendment.

Answer 1

There were three viable candidates running for President in 1992. But, the outcome was determined (as it will be next year) by the vote of the Electoral College. Even though William Jefferson Clinton came in third in the State of Utah, that did not stop him from getting the needed 270 Electoral College votes to be President. There were also three viable candidates in 1948 and Harry S. Truman received a majority of the votes of the Electoral College.
You are placing too much emphasis on the popular vote in the general election. No one votes for President in the general election in November. They only vote for electors pledged to a candidate. Further complicating the process is the fact that 36 states (a majority) do not have "faithful elector" laws which bind the votes of their Electoral College delegates to that cast by the people in the general election.
Only two states mandate that the Electoral College votes from their states be apportioned to match the popular vote in each of their Congressional Districts.
Should any candidate fail to gain the 270 electoral votes needed for victory, then the House would have to decide the outcome. In such a situation, each State would have but one vote to cast.

Answer 2

If nothing specific is stated in the Constitution and congress has to choose the next president and vice-president,they will have to decide on the procedures to be followed for voting.
At present,a candidate must get 270 electoral votes to become the next president,however,congress must certify the election results.
Even IF a candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes,the electoral college is not obligated to vote for that candidate although they generally follow the popular vote and congress is not obligated to certify those election results.
Congress can dismiss the election results and end up deciding who will be in the white house.
In the case where the democrats control both houses of congress,it would be possible for them to put 2 democrats in the white house even if the republicans won the white house again.
The electoral college has rarely gone against the popular vote of the people.but it could happen.

Answer 3

If he does not win by the 270 electorial votes,it goes to the House of Representitves.

It takes a 2/3 quarum to vote. And a majority of votes cast from that 2/3 [of voting states] to win.

1 representitive from the 2/3 states voting, casts 1 vote.

Answer 4

No.

Loser question.

"Christian Conservatives" made no such statement (again, you're listening to Leftist Propoganda).

You think that they would split the vote and let Shrillary have a chance?

The next election will be a mass of Democratic recounts when the Left realizes how they have distanced themselves from the American People.

Answer 5

did not happen when Ross Peroit ran and he got 19 percent of the vote,.....i would have to say that will not happen,.....