It's November 7th and Rick Santorum is President-elect: How did it Happen?

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9. santorum president on november 7th: here's the most plausible scenario (and it takes a lot):

obama and biden both die on the same day, or in any event, close enough so that the second of them dies prior to the vacancy in the vice-presidency being filled. boner (ack!) becomes president, and picks santorum as veep. the senate rolls over and approves. boner then dies, santorum becomes president. all this before november 7.

if none of this comes to pass and santorum wins the election in november, he still doesn't become president until january 20.

so what went wrong? obama and biden died and boner made a terrible choice for veep (approved by the senate) before dying himself.