Sentences with phrase «electoral college victory»

Maybe Yellen, who apparently has met with Trump, won his support by toasting the unprecedented size of his electoral college victory and inauguration crowd and rapid pace of policy implementation (just to pick a few things Trump constantly brags about despite their not actually being true).

States like Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin are among the swing states considered critical to an electoral college victory last year.

The set backs which come with them, such as the «Denier / Minimalist» electoral college victory last November, are entirely explicable to folks who LISTEN to the other side, and their most heart - felt, views.

He subsequently lamented the fact that there was still anger surrounding his failure to release his tax returns, called for inquiries into the payments behind the rallies, and reiterated his electoral college victory.

Not exact matches

That's because the states that happen to be swing states, meaning they are crucial to an electoral - college victory, also happen to be places where there is a high concentration of manufacturing employment, like Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, and New Hampshire.

President Obama's convincing victory in the electoral college came in part from his promise to make the wealthiest Americans «pay a little more.»

In the 2012 presidential campaign, while other pundits predicted a Romney victory, he forecast a large Obama margin in the electoral college, ultimately missing just two states.

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.

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.

Under the electoral college it makes no sense for candidates to allocate scarce resources to states they either can not win or are certain to win, in which case, the size of their victory is irrelevant.

The president also touted his own 2016 victory in the electoral college, and informed the farmers gathered to hear him speak that they were «happy» to have voted for him.

Labelled as the continuity Blair candidate, David's victory speech — secured across all three sections of the electoral college, albeit very narrowly with a higher - than - expected turnout from USDAW members in the trade union component, emphasised the need to capture economic credibility.

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.

That left the road open to Neil Kinnock's «coronation» victory in all three selections of the electoral college to succeed Foot, a 71.27 % share of the ballot.

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.