Could the D nominee be neither Obama nor BillAry?

[Buckeye GOP]

It looks like Mike Gravel's decision to follow the Huck-a-Miracle strategy, of staying in the race even when there is no chance whatsoever of securing enough votes to win the nomination, may work out after all. We are getting the first inklings that at a brokered Democratic convention the nominee may be neither of the two perceived front-runners.

www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/mar/24/mark-tomasik-dont-discount-gore-led-ticket/

The article points out that the main winner could be Al Gore. Please, pretty please, let that be the case. If Gore wins the nomination without logging a single solitary vote, then I wont have to here ignoramouses whining about loosing the popular vote any more. It bugs me to no end to hear people who don't understand that candidates campaign based on the electoral system rather than spending all their time pandering to voters in NY, LA, Chicago, and Houston.

[Sabio]

I can't imagine the political backlash that a scenario as described above would create. A candidate, such as Gore, getting the nomination without a single vote cast in his favor. Wow. I've heard of Gore as a potential helpmeet to broker the convention (along with Jimmy Carter, Tom Daschle, Howard Dean, etc), but to even think that someone could be nominated without a single vote cast is completely undemocratic. This should be an unthinkable outcome. I read some wacky article (could find it to post) that described an attempt to share the presidency between Clinton and Obama, with one taking the presidency (and the other as VP) for the first three years, then resigning for the fourth year. The new president would then nominate the other to the VP spot. They would then win the re-election, and switch places after another three years. The author (at this point I was wondering if this was satire or not) then claimed that since neither had been "elected" twice, they could run the same scheme two more times, holding the presidency for 16 years. The only thought I could offer this author is "That's the stupidest thing I've ever read." I wish I could find it to post so all could "benefit" from the author's "imagination".

[Sabio]

And here's the link to the wacky article: www.slate.com/id/2187034/