Sentences with phrase «electoral college votes for»

Fifty five electoral college votes for Clinton, putting her marginally ahead of Trump overall.

But we have to face the facts - namely, that two out of three parts of our electoral college voted for someone else.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

One of the simplest means of dealing with this even retains the electoral college: have the EC allocate its votes for each state proportionately to the vote, regardless of electoral district (which also renders gerrymandering almost irrelevant, since the state is considered as a whole).

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:

Some mechanisms help on the margin, but each with its draw backs, like representative Democracy, small government, pre requisite for voting, electoral college, separation of power, or even the right to bear arm,...

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.

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.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

Former President Bill Clinton in Albany on Monday called his vote for his wife in the electoral college the proudest he's ever cast.

Originally, there was a pool of potential candidates selected, out of whom the electoral college members would vote for their two favorite candidates.

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.

Gone will be the «electoral college» through which the affiliated unions have one - third of the votes for the party leader.

With their votes at the party conference, they could help to push through rule changes that assisted the centrists — perhaps to reintroduce the old electoral college for choosing leaders — and overturn the left's majority on the NEC, as they did in the early 1980s.

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 decision by the Labour leadership to run an electoral college for the mayoral nomination rather than the one member, one vote (OMOV) system originally planned, meant that Ken was ultimately narrowly beaten to the Labour nomination by Frank Dobson.

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

Labour's electoral «college» is split into three sections — MPs and euro MPs, union - affiliated members and ordinary party members, all of whom can vote for more than one candidate in an order of preference.

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

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?

Since the electoral college had already voted for the winner and the President had already inaugurated, what would happen since the Constitution doesn't state anything (as far as I recall)?

It also has the electoral college votes per state, but it removes faithless electors for other candidates.

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.

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.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, in Albany for the state's electoral college vote, insisted to reporters on Monday there were no trades on legislative issues in exchange for a salary increase for lawmakers.

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.

The new leader is elected by an electoral college where the votes of MPs and MEPs count for a third of the total, the votes of Labour Party members count for a third and votes of trade unions and other affiliate organisations» members count for a third.

The BBC's Iain Watson said the unions were on the verge of agreeing that the electoral college should be abolished - not for conference votes, just for the leadership election - so all members, including the «opted - in», union - affiliated members, would get one vote each.

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C - SPAN also provides free resources for teachers, such as a giant electoral college map that shows each states electoral college votes, and DVDs, including a recent series on the White House.

Shell predicts that the plant will employ 600 workers — a powerful message in a swing state where a thirst for job creation is often cited as a key reason that Donald Trump won Pennsylvania's 20 electoral college votes in November.

I'm wondering if there is solid legal ground for suing the US government for using an electoral college which can have the effect of denying citizens a vote.

I understand the constitution does not explicitly guarantee that all votes must be equal, nor does it ban geographic voter discrimination and that it does call for an electoral college so I see the counter argument would be strong, but I wonder if you guys think there is any case to be made for my argument.

The electoral college altering your vote to match the majority seems to be the most egregious crime because, although the constitution doesn't explicitly require your vote to be equal in strength, surely the founders intended with the word «vote» that you at least get to choose who you vote for.

when you vote in the elections for President, you are voting for a designated representative (in the electoral college) to vote for the President.