Well, the electoral college vote and the popular vote will likely be split. There are serious allegations of ballot mismanagement in Florida and possibly elsewhere. It’s looking like we could have a full-blown national crisis on our hands. So here’s what we do:
Create an Electoral Commission to broker a deal in which the Republican gets the White House–even though he lost the popular vote–with the stipulations that the new Southern railroad continues to receive federal funds and that all federal troops fully withdraw from the South. The Republicans get the executive, and the Democrats get their territory back. It’s a win-win situation. Sound good?
Hmm. To translate that into modern terms:
Bush gets elected.
However, he must agree to massive military base closings throughout the South, and that the money saved from such closings must be put into re-vitalizing Amtrak.
Interesting. Of course, we should probably wait until Florida sends two seperate elector delegations to Congress before taking such drastic, train-enabling action.
Heh…“train-enabling.” You funny. 
Naw. The reasonable solution is found here
http://www.2street.com/rock-paper-scissors/
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the two hundred and fifty year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to electoral agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crises shall have been reached and passed. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure permanently half Republican and half Democrat. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.