Choices

When their party nominates a billionaire demagogue, the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a small group of cohorts are mortified. A strong Libertarian showing in November - and severe weather that affects turnout in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida - leaves the top candidate one vote short of an electoral majority. So the election is unsettled. The Speaker and the Congress race to resolve it in a remarkably undemocratic - but constitutional - twist.