Sentences with phrase «popular vote effort»
Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature provide momentum to a National Popular Vote effort designed to rescue the vast majority of states from irrelevancy in our presidential contests.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
Specifically, state level California Republicans had been pushing an effort in the legislature there to assign California's 55 electors by proportion of the popular vote to give them an opportunity to win some votes in a state with 12 % of the national population that they haven't had success winning in a generation.
Details are still scarce, but the Democratic governor in the third and fourth legs of his State of the State tour said his latest effort to promote shared services and purchasing among local government entities would include a mandate that county executives develop a plan and then put it up for a popular vote.
Their vote share, and popular vote size, was less impressive than in past elections, but the Tories best effort in this 20 year period was 36 %.
Cuomo has declined to cooperate with a Trump administration - backed effort to review voter fraud during the election, which the president has blamed on his loss of the popular vote.
In an email release with all caps in the subject line (I think Bellone is a little excited that the imensely popular Cuomo is campaigning again for him), Bellone says the governor's visit scheduled for Wednesday is part of a major get - out - the - vote effort.
Perhaps because of this concerted engagement effort, spending on schools is popular and most substantial bond programs are voted through.
Some years ago, there were statewide campaigns and ballot measures that put the subject to a popular vote, but now such an effort would be futile.