Sentences with phrase «electoral college vote loses»
I threw it in a spreadsheet, and the winner of the thirty - one places with the fewest votes per electoral college vote loses the popular vote by about 79.6 % to 20.4 %.
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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.
MPs have lost the voting section they previously had in the electoral college, so their votes are now worth the same as any other individual member, affiliated supporter or registered supporter.
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.
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.
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).
That's yuuuge trouble for Trump: With Nevada in pocket, Clinton could lose Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and New Hampshire, and that extra electoral vote in Maine, and even two members of the Electoral College in Washington who supported Bernie Sanders and have said they might not vote for Clinton, and still go over 270 electoral votes.
In a secret recording made as part of an undercover investigation and reported on by The Guardian, the company's head of data, Alex Tayler, said, «When you think about the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 3m votes but won the electoral college vote that's down to the data and the research.»
And there was Trump, who lost the popular vote by 2.1 points but won the electoral college.