Sentences with phrase «electoral votes go»
The Senate also granted final legislative approval Saturday to a bill allowing Connecticut to join an interstate compact that would ensure the state's electoral votes go to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote, provided enough other states join the agreement.
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Obama is going to win about 65 % of the electoral votes to romney's 35 %.
Convening such a body would provide a space to debate how best to address systematic political inequality, whether through thorough - going electoral reform including PR and compulsory voting, the radical overhaul of the democratic aberration that is the Lords, or in reforming party funding, all of which the report supports.
Criticizing not only Trump, but also the electoral college process that got him elected over the popular vote, which went to Clinton.
Gone will be the «electoral college» through which the affiliated unions have one - third of the votes for the party leader.
In terms of the electoral law — well, it's FPTP, so you're going to have a lot of councils where the winning party won an overwhelming majority of seats on less than 50 percent of the vote.
I'm grateful to Vote Better NY for bringing attention to an issue that goes to heart of our democratic system, and look forward to working with my colleagues to create a better, fairer, and more open electoral process for all New Yorkers.»
When it comes to a General Election, regardless of the electoral system, go out and vote.
«We don't have to go to Albany and deal with that political dysfunction in order to get this electoral reform,» he said, an apparent reference to that fact that many other voting and election laws are dictated by the state.
For me, thinking about AV and electoral reform made me realise properly, for the first time, how much the voting system dictates how we go about our democratic politics — especially in relation to marginal constituencies or marginal wards.
It brought millions on to the electoral register and inspired millions to go to vote for the first time.
«After the voting, both candidates had 19 votes, making it a split, so the electoral officer decided that the house should take a breather for an hour and return to vote for the second time, but this declaration of the votes by the electoral officer did not go down well with the youth who had gathered at the back of the church building.»
If neither candidate gets 270 votes, the election goes to Congress with the top three vote getters in the electoral college.
Carl Paladino predicts Trump will win New York's electoral votes, «and that's going to clinch it for him.»
In 2007 Baston looked at 256 opinion polls, and at the election results that would have been produced by three electoral systems: first past the post, and two AV scenarios — one in which the Liberal Democrat votes went to the Tories and Labour, and another in which the Lib Dem second preference votes went to Labour.
The old New Labour triangulation strategy was that the so - called «core vote» had nowhere else to go, but relatively affluent swing voters were key to electoral success.
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.
But here's the thing: In states where the polls close after 10 p.m., 78 electoral votes are sure to go to Clinton, and just 25 are likely for Trump.
A combined quarter of a million dollars will go to the 2nd Congressional Districts in Maine and Nebraska, where electoral votes are up for grabs.
We can not disenfranchise persons through these means and it is heartwarming the electoral commission has assured that it is going to put measures in place to get all these persons who for one reason or the other could not vote,» Mr. Adams said.
The new song created exclusively for this collection, the America Rock tune «I'm Gon na Send Your Vote to College» (about the electoral college system), is also uninspired, and this collection's relentless pimping of the song is downright annoying.
Having secured the debate, the Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake asked in his opening speech whether the government could be confident that nobody from Vote Leave who now worked for the Conservatives was going to be charged with electoral offences.