Alternate 25th Amendment

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Suppose instead of having the President nominate a new Vice President for Congress to approve, the 25th Amendment called for the Electoral College last elected to convene again and elect a new Vice President.  Who would have the Electoral College "picked" after Agnew's resignation, since Democratic Party approval would not have been an issue?

[Erc]

Even with the complete freedom of 500+ electors, he wouldn't want to be too unreasonable with his choice.

Connally seems obvious, as usual...but I'm not an expert on the subject.


One interesting point this would have raised, if it had been enacted:

A few of the electors could easily have died since the election, especially since retired state politicians are often electors (in my understanding).  If the election had been close, that could result in a no-majority scenario in which the selection would go to the Senate--but unlike the current case, in which they approve or disapprove of a choice selected by the President, they'd have the option of voting for a VP of the opposite party.  Also a possibility (although it hasn't happened since 1824/36), is if the President had been elected by the House in the first place, but the Senate had since (in the midterms) turned against him, allowing the election of a VP of the opposite party assuming electors follow party lines.

That said, 99% of the time, it's functionally no different than the President simply appointing a VP without approval--as if he's the President, odds are he won (and still has) a majority of the Electoral College...and I sincerely doubt, unless things are going really poorly for the President, that the electors wouldn't vote for the President's choice.