Sentences with phrase «college votes won»

Figure 6: Number of electoral college votes won by Republican presidential election candidate by region, 1972 - 2016

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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.

Sabato's Crystal Ball, the forecasting blog run by Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Centre for Politics, has Clinton winning 347 electoral college votes to 191 for Trump.

The president tweeted in late November: «In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.

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:

You said, «Very good points, but do you not think there's some flaw there when you can win through the electoral college and yet not the overall popular vote?

Very good points, but do you not think there's some flaw there when you can win through the electoral college and yet not the overall popular vote?

Damian is right, the electoral college doesn't make much sense anymore after being able to tally votes a lot easier, plus, what does it mean when a president wins the electoral college but not the popular vote?

Let's look, however, at the electoral college vote — you know, the votes all presidential candidates need to win.

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.

In order to win the presidency, a candidate must win 270 Electoral College votes.

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:

In 2004, the Rs managed a narrow victory around the country, with Bush winning the popular vote and electoral college but with the Rs essentially keeping the same number of seats in the House.

We all know the situation could arise in the U.S. where one candidate wins the popular vote but another one the electoral college.

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore believes Trump is on track to win reelection in 2020 despite his low approval poll ratings, and he encouraged Democrats to back a movement to award Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner.

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 end Clinton won the popular vote but Trump received 290 Electoral College votes compared to Clinton's 228 — a clear victory.

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

Ed Miliband subsequently won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 September 2010, after second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, achieving the support of 50.654 % of the electoral college, defeating his brother by 1.3 %.

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.

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.

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.

You can win the electoral college and thus the presidency without accruing a single popular vote.

As the 2016 election results continue to come in, it looks pretty clear that Hillary Clinton will win the popular vote but lose the electoral college.

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

But according to a new poll from NBC New York and Marist College, he'd enter the Democratic field at a strong position, second to Christine Quinn, and would make it harder for any candidate to win with the 40 percent required to avoid a run - off vote.

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.

The winner of the popular vote will automatically win the Electoral College as well.

Coming off Mitt Romney's almost - six - million - vote loss in the presidential election in 2012, which resulted in an electoral - college margin of 332 - 206 (270 are needed to win), Republican national chairman Reince Priebus put together a committee of five persons to examine, explain and address the party's losses on the national level.

Despite losing the indirect but all - important state - by - state electoral college count, «I won three million more (popular) votes than the other guy,» she said.

Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner suggested that an «almost presidential museum library» be created to recognize the contributions of Chappaqua's Hillary Clinton and four other presidential candidates who won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.

For example, he won majorities of states, counties, and electoral college votes.

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One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

While rare, Trump's win in the electoral college while failing to win a plurality of the popular vote was not unique.

He did not gain a majority of the popular vote but he won broadly enough that he had a decisive mandate in the electoral college.

It is possible to win one to nothing in enough states that the candidates gets at least 270 electoral college votes, which is enough to win.

At 2.30 am, the Associated Press projected Trump had won Wisconsin and called the overall race for Trump, who passed the 270 electoral college votes he needed to secure the presidency.

He has been repeatedly accused of a cover - up in a bid to keep US intelligence onside, not the kind of thing that wins you votes in Labour's electoral college.

Let's keep in mind that Rump won a narrow victory in the Electoral College, lost the popular vote by close to 3 million and will be a minority president.

You could throw in something about how Hillary actually won the national popular vote and how the electoral college system is seriously broken.

Table 2 (a): Number of electoral college votes that would have been won by each candidate if these had been apportioned proportionally (PrEV), as contrasted with the number won by each candidate in the actual election («winner takes all» /» first past the post»).

«I think from start to finish every campaign strategist looking at this Democratic primary has got to say this is the crucial vote to get out there to win,» Iona College pundit Jeanne Zaino said.

In Washington state, two designated electors say they will not vote for Clinton in the Electoral College, even though Clinton is expected to win the state.

«I think from start to finish, every campaign strategist looking at this Democratic primary has got to say this is the crucial vote to get out there to win,» Iona College political science professor Jeanne Zaino said.

Steve Greenberg, Siena College Research Institute Pollster, will join us to discuss what happened with the national polling which showed Hillary Clinton winning the national vote and many key battleground states she ultimately lost.

As of July 9, 2012, the majority of U.S. voters will have the opportunity to cast a direct vote for Jill Stein, and she will be on enough ballot lines in enough populous states to win the Electoral College and therefore the presidency.

«If hundreds of thousands of Obama supporters stay home and let's say he still wins the election, if it was going to be really close, it might switch that to where Obama fails to win the national vote but still wins the Electoral College,» Kelly said.

As you will recall, had Gore won the popular vote in Florida, he would have earned enough electoral college votes to win the election.

This is a winner - take - all system, whereby the candidate who wins the popular vote within a state garners all of the electoral college votes, even if one candidate wins a razor - thin popular vote victory over his or her rival.