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[cindyanne1]

What happens if a non-incumbant presidential candidate dies or becomes otherwise unable to be president right before the election?  Does their VP candidate automatically step up and become the candidate for POTUS?

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[tma]

TL;DR that party just picks a new person and the votes count for them instead.

[mofoburrell]

That sounds fairly reasonable. In terms of policy, realistically you're actually voting for a team of advisers more than you're voting for an individual, right?

[tma]

Mercifully.

[mrflagg]

the FBI is very interested in this post

[mofoburrell]

I'll start to worry when cindyanne1's next question is about sniper rifles.

[cindyanne1]

Muwahahahaha!

[cindyanne1]

No actually what make me think of it was on my Yahoo there was a link to an article that said "Milt Campbell Dies" and when I first just grazed it I thought I read "Mitt ... Dies" and had to go back and read it. O_o

Then I started thinking, what would happen if he had really died at this point?

[ilysespieces]

now all i want to do is watch the west wing election where the vp candidate dies like halfway through election night.

nothing to do with your question, but it is a good episode.