(FORTUNE Magazine) – The possibility that this year's presidential election will turn into a Woody Allen movie hit home quite suddenly the other day, when we first tuned in on the Bernie Sanders scenario. The scenario, all too plausible, is made possible by your friendly U.S. Constitution. As you will see by consulting the 12th Amendment, if the Perot factor results in no candidate's getting an electoral- college majority, then the election will be decided in the House of Representatives, where each state delegation gets one vote, meaning that socialist Sanders, the ''Sandernista'' from Vermont, has just as much to say about the outcome as the 52-member California delegation. Actually, Bernie has more clout. As Vermont's sole Representative, he will surely cast 3.85% of the 26 votes needed to elect a President, whereas the Californians will split all kinds of ways in a three-man race. Depending on rules yet to be written by the House, states in which there is no majority could simply lose their votes. To be sure, Sanders will not be the only delegation walking around in one pair of pants. Six other states will also get by with one Representative in the next Congress. But only Bernie has farcical potential. A creature of the Sixties who became mayor of Vermont's largest city, he soon enough caused it to be labeled the People's Republic of Burlington. It had ''sister cities'' in Nicaragua and the Soviet Union. Its city council was forever opposing nukery and aid to El Salvador. Its mayor incited demonstrations against death merchant General Electric, the city's largest employer. In his single term in Congress, Sanders has had a voting record indistinguishable from the more dirigiste Dems, and has shown signs of blending into the liberal wallpaper. Until now, that is. Now the man is high-profile proof that America remains the land of opportunity. He even looks a bit like Woody.