Presidential Election In a hotly contested presidential election, the declared winner of F...

Presidential Election In a hotly contested presidential election, the declared winner of Florida won the presidency. Throughout the weeks after this election, many people were hoping that one of the candidates would step forward and say that in the interest of the nation, he was conceding to his opponent. Although this did not occur, let’s assume that X was more of a statesman than Y and said to the Y campaign. “I am willing to allow the outcome of this election to be determined by chance. You may place two pieces of paper in a hat. One piece shall have ‘winner’ written on it and the other shall have ‘loser’ written on it. I will not look at either piece of paper. In a public ceremony, I will then select one piece of paper from the hat and accept the outcome of the drawing.” After much deliberation, Y agreed to the challenge. During the morning of the drawing, the head of Y’s campaign asked Y why he was willing to do this. “Don’t worry about it,” said Y “I am going to write ‘loser’ on both pieces of paper.” Not to be outwitted, X also had a strategy and the outcome of the drawing declared him the winner. What did X do?