If Gore had won New Hampshire

[Andrew]

Let's say that Gore had won New Hampshire but lost ME-2.  That's a realistic scenario that gets him to 270.  Remember that Barbara Lett-Simmons was protesting DC's "colonial status"--that is, their lack of voting representation in the Congress.  Casting a blank ballot to send the election to the House would have been a way to actually get her protest noticed by the general public.  I think she might have done it.

I doubt it--she is a Democrat, and sending the election to the House would have cost Gore the election, but I think it's a possibility.

[Andrew]

Before she abstained, she had been publicly speculating that she might do so.  She told Newsday and the Washington Post that she would not abstain if she thought Gore needed her vote to win:  "I would never do anything that would cause George Bush to have the presidency."

http://slate.msn.com/id/1006533/