Sentences with phrase «in electoral college»

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

The result of this cherry - picking is that democratic presidential candidates would have to win the popular vote by 6 percent or more (a landslide) in order to edge out republicans in the electoral college.

And what many believed to be our last hope to save democracy, the electoral college, let America down: only two Trump electors defected in the electoral college, while four voted against Clinton.

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

«These persons can not be impersonated and their roles in the electoral college can not be replicated, duplicated or copied in whatever guise.

The election took place using Alternative Vote in an electoral college, with a third of the votes allocated to MPs and MEPs, a third to individual members of the Labour Party, and a third to individual members of affiliated organisations, mainly trade unions.

These two reforms would introduce an all - member ballot for the national chair with a voice in an electoral college for young trade unionists, and provide a proper basis for policy motions to the Young Labour conference.

Front - runners have a massive advantage in an electoral college system that gives as much power to 250 MPs as to 170,000 party members.

She also leads in the electoral college numbers that you must win to become President in the November national election.

Second preferences could be crucial as few expect any one candidate to secure a winning majority on first preferences in an electoral college split into three between MPs / MEPs, party members and members of affiliated bodies like the trade unions.

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.

--RRB- The winner - takes - all - electors in a state system is also a means by which smaller states gain disproportionate representation and it also helps create a mandate for the President by giving the winner a big majority in the electoral college.

If neither candidate gets 270 votes, the election goes to Congress with the top three vote getters in the electoral college.

While rare, Trump's win in the electoral college while failing to win a plurality of the popular vote was not unique.

Under the old system, in place at the time of Ed Miliband's election in 2010, trade union members and members of other affiliated societies had a third of the votes in the electoral college system, and would send out ballot papers to their members.

He points out that, currently, the American constitutional system discriminates against residents of populous states, both in the U.S. Senate, and also in the electoral college.

They also all have only one representative in the US house of representatives (meaning they have a very low population), but 2 senate votes and 3 votes in the electoral college.

My impression is that such an election would have to take place before any electors representing Wisconsin could participate in the electoral college.

The right of voting was restricted to «appointed electors» (which is still the case in the electoral college in the US and many other institutions), which were often local men of power, in other words wealthy bourgeois.

That's interesting, because there was some suggestion Obama would dominate in the popular vote, but perhaps struggle a little in the electoral college vote.

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.

They elect their states representative in the electoral college which then elects both positions separately on the behalf of their voters.

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.

Many people know that it is electors in the electoral college that actually elect the president, not citizens voting on election day.

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

Democratic Representative Gene Green from Texas expressed that «every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the vote of partisan insiders in the electoral college.»

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:

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.

But the solid North was enough to enable him to win in the electoral college.

Romney got severely «thrashed» in the electoral college... and even more so, if he ends up winning Florida which is most probable.

The 12th amendment doesn't say that there must be a quorum in the electoral college, it says there must be a quorum in the House of Representatives:

Brandon Watson explains why the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact --- in which states assign their votes in the electoral college to whoever wins the most votes countrywide --- is sheer madhattery:

«Other things equal, a counterfactual analysis shows that Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania would have swung in favor of the Hillary Clinton if robot adoption had been two percent lower over the investigated period, leaving the Democrats with a majority in the electoral college.»

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

Not exact matches

The president hit his favorite highlights in the interview with Fox and Friends, criticizing CNN and NBC, among others, as «fake news,» and bragging about his electoral college win.

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

With more than 145 million votes cast, the popular vote looks to be around 48 % -47 % with Trump defeating opponent Hillary Clinton in the more important electoral college.

Oh I suppose if you consider the electoral college but in terms of do I have a mandate to implement policy, the 50/49 number is a more telling number to the winner.

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 HousIn 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 Housin the House.

If the question is «does the electoral college advantages a state or an other, over the long run», then it is not really relevant that right now, some states are surely in one party's column and only a few are swing states.

The outcome of the national popular vote versus the electoral college in the recent elections is an example.

We all know the situation could arise in the U.S. where one candidate wins the popular vote but another one the electoral college.

- Blair won majorities in all three sections of the 94 electoral college for leader.

Let's suppose a smaller country, with 4 states, conveniently named A, B, C, and D, having 1, 2, 3, and 4 votes in that country's electoral college each respectively.

Is there any data indicating that abolishing the electoral college would cause extremist voters to play more of a role in the election?

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.

In addition, under the electoral college a third party can tip the balance in a closely contested state by siphoning a few votes from a major - party candidatIn addition, under the electoral college a third party can tip the balance in a closely contested state by siphoning a few votes from a major - party candidatin a closely contested state by siphoning a few votes from a major - party candidate.

If the US presidential election abolishes the electoral college, would this mean that extremist voters (someone who fanatically supports a specific political direction and will vote whoever supports it the most) play more of a role in the election?

There are only two systems in the United States to allocate electoral college electors, and both involve voters picking only one candidate pair (President / Vice-President).