What would happen if Mickey Mouse won the U.S. Presidential election?

[WillJ]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the U.S. Presidential election, most states allow you to write a write-in vote if you're not satisfied with the other options.

And a relatively popular protest write-in is "Mickey Mouse." So what would happen if Mickey Mouse won? Would it go to an actual candidate (the one with the most votes, of course), or what?

If you wish, the question could be phrased more generally: How exactly does the write-in vote work?

 

[Riesstiu IV]

I'd change my name to "Mickey Mouse" and dutifully become president.

My first act would be to ban the constitution and call for the dissolution of the senate and the House of Representatives. In its place will be the “House of Lords”, a puppet representative body, which will basically rubber stamp my edicts without second thought. The title of president would be changed to "Supreme Emperor" and I would take the role as the only Supreme Court justice. I would then ban gun ownerships and create an all pervasive police force dressed in all black riot gear with gas masks. All but one religion would be banned, the worship of the Emperor.

 

[PHSikes]

Edwards would be vice-pres?

 

[ManOfMiracles]

The US would be "The Happiest Place on Earth"...

 

[North King]

I would run. Far far away.

I don't know what would happen on a national scale.

 

[Birdjaguar]

He did in 2000.

 

[Perfection]

Curt Sibling would become a baptist minister and Mr. Sharpe would go commie.

 

[Perfection]

Just doing my job, someone's gotta make sarcastic and often spammy comments around here and it might as well be me.

 

[amadeus]

Curt Sibling would become a baptist minister and Mr. Sharpe would go commie.

You're part right. I'd also become a black handicapped lesbian.

 

[JtheJackal]

The first thing to happen is that congress would pass an admendment to make sure it would never happen again

 

[Perfection]

You're part right. I'd also become a black handicapped lesbian.

And elected UN Secretary General

 

[amadeus]

I believe that was implied with the black and communist parts.

 

[cgannon64]

Um...I'll steal the Onion joke about Nader and say "He would peacefully preside over the country's shift into another universe."

 

[Shadylookin]

I don't know what would happen because I would have commited suicide as soon as I heard Mickey Mouse won the precidency(there are just some things a man doesn't want to survive through)

 

[WickedSmurf]

I would gain respect for the US voters and the US system.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Walt would return from the dead, build a copy of Neuschwanstein in downtown Washington, DC, and rule the world for ever.

 

[Flak]

In reality, if anybody is actually curious, since there would be no state electors for Mickey Mouse, he probably wouldn't get a single electoral vote. Those states that ole Mickey didn't take would cast there electoral votes appropriately and the rules laid out in the Constitution would kick in. Since no candidate got more than the needed majority, which would be the case since Mickey got the bulk of the popular votes in the necessary states to assure a win if he had the state electors, the vote would go to the Senate for President, and House of Reps for Vice President. Thus, Bush would, however embarrasingly, likely be reelected.

 

[IglooDame]

In reality, if anybody is actually curious, since there would be no state electors for Mickey Mouse, he probably wouldn't get a single electoral vote. Those states that ole Mickey didn't take would cast there electoral votes appropriately and the rules laid out in the Constitution would kick in. Since no candidate got more than the needed majority, which would be the case since Mickey got the bulk of the popular votes in the necessary states to assure a win if he had the state electors, the vote would go to the Senate for President, and House of Reps for Vice President. Thus, Bush would, however embarrasingly, likely be reelected.

I knew I wouldn't be the first one to give that answer.

But, what would happen if the electors all went for Mickey? They could do that even if the population voted "normally" (and boy isn't that a word with mixed meanings), and in fact 270+ electors deciding that Mr Mouse is superior to either of the main choices seems more likely than millions of perhaps less-politically-savvy voters deciding that.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

What would happen if Mickey Mouse won the U.S. Presidential election?

The Secret Service wouldnt let anyone near the President with an eraser?

 

[Pirate]

If the country were at peace then the newspapers would run lots of photos of the president playing with his dog, Pluto. But of course people would claim that Goofy, governor of Florida, helped him win.

Defense Secretary Donald Duck would pursuade President Mouse to invade Warner Bros. to topple the regime of Bugs Bunny, installing Chip and Dale as the interim heads of the cartoon occupation authority. Yosemite Sam (or should I say YOsamate, with that long beard) would paint a dark hole on the side of a cliff and disappear into the cave while the special ops pursuing him would bounce off the solid wall.

Oh, I could go on and on..