Sentences with phrase «college votes a state»

The number of Electoral College votes a state earns is based on the number of Representatives and Senators of each state.

Not exact matches

Each state was decided by a razor - thin margin, which allowed Clinton to win the popular vote by roughly 3 million votes yet still lose in the Electoral College.

Moon estimated that in 16 states with a total of 278 votes in the Electoral College, «the Negro, in a close election, may hold the balance of power.»

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

Nebraska is one of just two states that allows for its Electoral College votes to be split in presidential elections.

Brandon Watson explains why the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact --- in which states assign their votes in the electoral college to whoever wins the most votes countrywide --- is sheer madhattery:

The fact that there is a lot of Penn State student rallying in support of Paterno is a prime example why college kids should NOT be permitted to vote.

Soon enough, with the college graduates we have in the state (look at the map of the counties who voted in correlation to those who voted against the Amendment), we will be greater than 35 %.

Ohio State won the national title that year with a sophomore - laden team: quarterback Rex Kern was a future All - American (he twice finished in the top five of the Heisman voting), defensive tackle Jim Stillwagon would win the Outland Trophy in 1970, and Jack Tatum and Mike Sensibaugh would become one of the best safety duos in college football history.

Of Notre Dame's four first - place votes, two come from résumé voters Black Heart Gold Pants and CougCenter; Florida gets its five from Florida State blog Tomahawk Nation, SEC blog Team Speed Kills, Kansas State blog Bring On The Cats, Notre Dame blog One Foot Down, and Matt Hinton of Sunday Morning Quarterback and CBS Sports» Eye on College Football.

The number of Representatives (and thus Electoral College votes) a state has is simply determined by its population, which is in turn determined by the census.

One of the simplest means of dealing with this even retains the electoral college: have the EC allocate its votes for each state proportionately to the vote, regardless of electoral district (which also renders gerrymandering almost irrelevant, since the state is considered as a whole).

For state D, with its 4 votes in the electoral college, there are two ways of deciding the coalitions that will not see it win:

Each state is different but my guess might also be that if these are college students or new voters or fringe types they might not even be aware yet that they can not vote in some primaries.

Let's suppose a smaller country, with 4 states, conveniently named A, B, C, and D, having 1, 2, 3, and 4 votes in that country's electoral college each respectively.

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

Although his book centres upon the UK, Goodhart explains that it can also account for the victory of President Trump: Trump consolidated the somewhere vote in key electoral college states.

This is because when voters are not really voting for a presidential candidate but instead voting to select the representative that will represent their state at the Electoral College.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

If these numbers were publicized it would be much easier for the changes in how state allot their Electoral College votes.

In addition, under the electoral college a third party can tip the balance in a closely contested state by siphoning a few votes from a major - party candidate.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

According to its supporters, one of the primary virtues of the electoral college is that winning candidates must obtainconcurrent majorities from around the country to win, rather than appeal to clusters of voters whose votes could be aggregated across states and regions but nevertheless might not represent all strata of society.

In the spirit of the Electoral College giving less populous states a boost in the vote, I altered the formula to award 2 votes per state to the winner of the popular vote of that state, and the remainder allocated via Webster / Sainte - Laguë:

That is, let's say that there was a constitutional amendment in place that, instead of abolishing the electoral college, required that the votes be split in each state (somewhat like ME and NE but simpler.)

By contrast, the unit rule (by which states award all their electoral votes to the plurality winner in the state) that 48 states employ under the electoral college encourages third parties, especially regional candidates like Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968.

He would need to win all of the big swing states to reach the required 270 Electoral College votes.

This means that States are constitutionally mandated to follow Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 (which defines the electoral college) and the 12th amendment (which amends the electoral college's voting process).

Some states have moved to a more proportional allocation of their electoral college votes.

Buffalo State College President Katherine Conway - Turner celebrated the event reading by reading a statement by Victoria Woodhull, first woman to run for president in 1872, when women generally couldn't vote.

This means instead of the winning presidential candidate getting all the college votes of the state — he gets only the share proportional to his vote.

New York State's Electoral College convened Monday, casting its 29 votes for New York's home state candidate Hillary CliState's Electoral College convened Monday, casting its 29 votes for New York's home state candidate Hillary Clistate candidate Hillary Clinton.

Legislation is advancing to the Senate that adds Connecticut to a group of states wanting to pool their Electoral College votes for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.

The president of the United States is elected not by popular vote, but by the Electoral College.

At the extreme end, Congress might refuse to certify an electoral college result, so only the other state votes would count.

A college intern working for a NYC Council candidate this summer got a lesson in hardball politics and may have run afoul of election law by registering to vote in two different states.

The Democratic Party is no longer the center left party, the patriotic party, and the pro worker party of John F. Kennedy, or Franklin D, Roosevelt, it is now the party of George Mcgovern, community organizers, hippies, free traders and globalists, dumb college students, flag burners, advocates for the legalization of all drugs and the banning of all firearms, and those who think that rural America is full of dumb idiots who are not enlightened enough to understand the benefits of free trade, who believe in the stupid idea of the nation state or stupid to not vote Democratic.

Former President Bill Clinton, left, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vote in the state's electoral college at the Senate chamber in Albany on Dec. 19, 2016.

Our state's lack of early voting, makes it challenging for voters like me, juggling college and work schedules, to cast a ballot.

That you have to circumvent the committee process to get a vote on gun control in New York State,» said Hunter College public - affairs professor Joseph Viteritti.

Instead of trying to eliminate the Pres. Electoral College (EC) which would require a constitutional amendment, this state move would allow all the NY EC votes to go to the candidate that obtains a majority vote nationwide.

In the extreme case, assuming a constant turnout across all 50 states (and with the electoral votes distributed as in 2011) *, it could take only 22 % of the popular vote to win the electoral college.

If California's population exploded to the extents listed above, the Electoral College would be redesigned to keep the votes reasonably distributed across the 50 states.

Therefore, a candidate could win a single electoral college vote by winning one district in either state.

The measure is being supported by Albany area Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, a Democrat, who says the bill would have New York join an interstate compact in which states would give all of their Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote nationwide.

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

He has, however, voted against both public financing of political campaigns and the Dream Act, which would make foreign nationals entering college eligible for state aid.

Supporters of the measure to give state aid for college tuition to children of undocumented immigrants say they are disappointed and saddened that the measure lost in the Senate by just one vote.

Paul finished a disappointing fifth place in Monday's Iowa caucuses, registering just 4.5 % of the vote despite placing a heavy emphasis on the state's college towns to bring out younger voters inspired by his libertarian - minded message.

«I now move that the electors of this College unanimously agree to forego their compensation as electors and have the money designated to an organization which assists the brave men, women and children wishing to make United States their home: the New York Immigration Coalition,» Heastie said during the vote yesterday.»