Sentences with phrase «actual votes for their candidates»

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The actual proof shows that the only exceptions are a dictatorial system (i.e., one voter decides who wins) and a system where some candidates can not win, even if everyone votes for them.

It's just rare for the average voter to look at a candidate's actual voting record while they will happily listen to whatever that candidate says.

@spiceyokooko - withholding a vote from someone based on their age without any actual test of maturity seems a lot worse discrimination to me than granting someone an extra vote if they have more maturity than an average adult genius who tends to vote for taller, better looking candidates.

However, in practice all candidates for the electoral college make a pledge to vote for the president candidate and vice president candidate endorsed by their party, which makes the actual elections of president and vice president just a formality.

The two main parties have been in control for so long, and so many people vote based solely on party and not on the actual candidate.

«A rule of thumb among political junkies says that that the actual vote for a third - party candidate tends to be roughly half of what that candidate was getting in pre-election polls around Labor Day,» said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

Although Log Cabin Republicans say that Romney has discussed «actual tangibles» in terms of pro-LGBT positions in announcing their endorsement of Romney and though GOProud already had endorsed the Republican earlier this year, the biggest question facing LGBT voters in deciding whether to vote for Romney is if the candidate LCR and GOProud describe will be running the country or if the candidate who the National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown said «was strong the whole way through» the marriage fight in Massachusetts will be running the show.

Note that selecting a presidential elector is listed separately, so «electing any candidate for office of President» refers to the actual election of the President, that is, the vote of the Electoral College.

With the window for taking part in Labour leadership election closing and ballot papers going out there were several polls over the weekend asking about the leadership candidates, though no fresh polling of people voting in the actual contest.