Sentences with phrase «enough electoral votes»

He will never get enough electoral votes!»

Electors were needed as a mechanism that allowed, if the need arose (nobody got enough electoral votes to get elected, a candidate died, etc.), to negotiate a solution in a timely manner (because each consultation with their home state could take weeks)

The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes — that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538).

Not exact matches

If the electoral districts are large enough (possibly nationwide), a party does get a weight in parliament roughly equivalent to the number of votes they received in the election.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

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.

If 3 - 4 states become in doubt and unresolvable, enough that the winner no longer has 270 electoral votes, the US House of Representatives gets to pick, and it's likely they will choose their own party's candidate.

As such, in elections where a large portion of electorate isn't terribly inspired by either candidates, and mostly votes for «lesser of two evils» in current FPTP, the two major party candidates just might accrue enough down - votes that a 3rd party candidate who isn't nearly as disliked will, on balance, win over both of them (or at the very least, acquire more than the abysmal 4 % combined popular vote and 0 electoral vote like 2016 US presidential elections, despite 3rd party candidates combined likely being preferred by 40 % of electorate, as a low bound).

He did not gain a majority of the popular vote but he won broadly enough that he had a decisive mandate in the electoral college.

It is possible to win one to nothing in enough states that the candidates gets at least 270 electoral college votes, which is enough to win.

In a situation like that, even a small amount of electoral fraud, or a small number of people whose vote was swayed by a negative story about a candidate, could be enough.

Rump squeaked by in the electoral by winning enough swing states (by less then a point) and 46 % of the total vote.

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.

Caroline Flint progresses the traditional Southern Discomfort argument, tweaked for post-2010 circumstances; and Joan Ryan looks at the electoral math in both Lib Dem marginal seats and in Labour / Tory marginals arguing that a focus on Lib Dem votes alone will not be enough, and we have to also attract Tory switchers.

In other words, bipartisan majority or not, some Democrats aren't thrilled with the idea of destroying the electoral college as we know it, and that's apparently enough of a reason to forgo a vote entirely.

If it does that, it can campaign for a no vote and hope that someday a new Tony Blair will emerge with a programme with enough electoral appeal in southern England to deliver an overall Labour majority under a continuing first - past - the - post system.

4... unfortunately, the poll didn't predict the winner, because Jackson didn't get enough votes in the electoral college.

As you will recall, had Gore won the popular vote in Florida, he would have earned enough electoral college votes to win the election.

This state of affairs makes it very easy for politicians to spin their messages toward a targeted minority few in search of just enough votes to win in our first - past - the - post electoral system.