Sentences with phrase «electoral college gives»

The electoral college gives the GOP a nice edge for now.

The stacking up of nominations in just one - third of the electoral college gave the false impression of unanimity.

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So if I want to vote for a Republican, it doesn't matter because the electoral college will give its support to the Democratic Candidate.

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.

Much attention is given to the move to One Person One Vote and the role of trade unions in the current electoral college.

The Committee also wants the party to take steps to restore the integrity of the biometric register of the party and the expanded electoral college» which currently gives the ordinary members of the party to vote in the party's primaries.

Given that the Americans don't vote directly for their president (i.e. the electoral college) and also that the dates are set when a new president is sworn in (ie fixed terms)- can the vote be redone?

--RRB- The winner - takes - all - electors in a state system is also a means by which smaller states gain disproportionate representation and it also helps create a mandate for the President by giving the winner a big majority in the electoral college.

Navigating the Byzantine wiles of the electoral college, You Gov has picked perceived wisdom up by the lapels, given it a good shake, and dumped it in the recycling bin by predicting a wafer thin victory for Ed Miliband.

Front - runners have a massive advantage in an electoral college system that gives as much power to 250 MPs as to 170,000 party members.

And even if they could get enough electors to give the election to Hillary Clinton, the Republican controlled House of Representatives votes to accept or reject the report of the electoral college.

The current electoral college system gives a third of the votes each to the unions, rank and file party members, and the MPs and MEPs.

Under the plan, the electoral college system for leadership elections - which gives a third of the votes each to the unions, rank and file party members, and the MPs and MEPs - will be scrapped for a system of one member, one vote.

The Deputy Leader wants to scrap the «one member one vote» system used for electing Labour leaders, and restore the old «electoral college» which gave an equal say to party members, trade unions and Labour MPs.

Labour leadership elections have previously been decided by a complex electoral college system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

A new method of electing Labour's leader - the electoral college, which gives unions, party members and MPs / MEPs a third of the votes each, abolished in favour of one member, one vote

At the moment, Labour leadership elections are decided by a complex «electoral college» system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

And MPs would receive between 10 % and a third of the votes (Watson recognises that MPs current war against Corbyn means the NEC will be minded to give them the bare minimum representation in any new electoral college).

Voting took place between 17 November and 10 December using the three - tier electoral college system, which gives parliamentarians, individual members, and affiliated bodies such as trade unions an equal say in the outcome.

gave a stirring speech in which she pointed out that Hollywood, foreigners, and the press are among the most vilified groups today in the wake of President - elect Donald Trump's electoral college win.