Rob Richie has this interesting article in Huffington Post, showing with actual data from 1992 how an independent presidential candidate could win, despite the U.S. Constitution’s provision that when no one wins a majority in the electoral college, the U.S. House chooses the president with each state getting one vote.

Richie’s post can be seen as rebutting an article by Norm Ornstein which says that an independent could never win because of those provisions of the U.S. Constitution. A link to Ornstein’s piece is in the Richie piece.