Originally Posted by GatorB

Bills are more complicated than that so you either are too stupid to know that or are just trying to manipulate the facts. Secondly whoever becomes President is not longer in Congress and thus no longer gets to vote onbills. So their influence in that is gone. President can only veto or sign a bill. Does it help McCain or the GOP if he becomes President and his replacement in the Senate winds up being a Democrat? Um...no.