Sentences with phrase «more popular votes»

They're in the news over speculation that «fake news» spread via Facebook posts could have influenced the election outcome, and over Google's high placement of a search result reporting wrongly that Donald Trump got more popular votes than Hillary Clinton.

Many Democrats believe that Cuomo, who is widely disliked in high - level party circles, could be beaten in the 2018 primary by a more popular vote - getter than Zephyr Teachout, the little - known and virtually unfunded leftist Fordham law professor who received a remarkable 34 percent against the governor in 2014.

Not exact matches

Launched by the Los Angeles venture - capital firm Science's mobile studio, Wishbone shows you two options and lets you vote on which one you like more — a spin on the popular «Would you rather?»

Hours later he reminded American voters that, even though Donald Trump won more electoral votes, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.

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.

Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.

250 of the seats are awarded more - or-less proportionally and the other 50 goes to whatever party finishes first in the popular vote.

Representing more than a quarter of the electorate and voting with the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since at least 1972, Roman Catholics are quintessential swing voters.

Contra John Yoo, Romney will likely surpass McCain total popular vote when all the ballots are counted and do so by more than a million votes.

John F. Kennedy won 49.7 percent of popular vote, just over 100,000 more votes than Richard Nixon.

Ummm actually Romney is winning, he has more delegates than the other three combined and is leading in the popular vote by over a million votes.

Put to popular vote the query, which interests them more, the movies or Hamlet and King Lear, and where would the majority be?

Being voted the sport's most popular driver for 11 straight years only amplified his anxiety; he felt even more of a disappointment to his ardent supporters.

The EDBC must also ensure, as far as practicable, that the redistribution is fair to prospective candidates and groups of candidates, so that if candidates of a particular group attract more than 50 per cent of the popular vote, including preferences, they will be elected in sufficient numbers to enable a government to be formed (Constitution Act 1934 (SA) section 83 (1)-RRB-.

In my opinion, the most noteworthy data mentioned is that Mr. Trump obtained more popular support in this last Nevada primary than all] the votes cast in the previous two.

Using status in this way is a pretty common campaigning technique in the UK, though what's become more popular here (at least in the Liberal Democrats) is changing your profile picture to a graphic that says you are backing / have voted for a particular candidate.

In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state's Electoral votes.

If United Russia were able to secure just under 50 per cent of the popular vote in the party - list competition, along with the lower estimate of seats in the singe - mandate district races, it would end up with over 270 seats, more than it now holds.

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.

In Hungary, Fidesz won more than a two - thirds majority in parliament in 2010 with 68 % of the popular vote.

There's certainly much more to be said about the economic repercussions of the Leave vote, which, alongside changes in party leadership is a genuine «leap in the dark,» but it is important to address directly and forcefully the question of popular anger that led to the success of Leave.

Yes, Hillary Clinton won a plurality of the popular vote, but Donald Trump plus Gary Johnson won more votes than Clinton plus Jill Stein.

Or if the Libertarians get a lot of votes, the popular party will become more liberate and get the votes back at the next election.

Cahill garnered a little more than 41 percent of the vote, which many Republicans considered a success against the then - popular incumbent, who was a prodigious fundraiser and favorite among labor unions.

More interestingly, as the article's title suggests, the sensitivity of the result to the national popular vote changes dramatically in the two methods, and in 2016, not in Clinton's favor (though 538 is wise enough, as usual, to note that this is specific to 2016 and you can't and shouldn't draw generic parallels to 2020 etc..)

Voter fraud has been a popular theme among Republicans this year, from Trump to state Republican leaders who cite fraud as a reason to make it more difficult to vote.

The Crux of all U.S. Politics is Jeffersonian Democracy (American Conservatism) vs. Jeffersonian Democracy combined with Jacksonian Democracy (basically, more government roles should be decided by popular vote.

In the early 19th century, most states did not hold popular elections for presidential electors and the legislature just chose them directly; as time went on, more and more states changed to doing popular vote for them, but as recently as 1876, the Colorado legislature appointed its electors rather than hold an election because it was newly admitted and didn't have the time to do so.

They want to undermine his mandate and ignore the fact that in terms of the popular vote Ed secured 29,000 more votes than David Miliband (securing 176,000 votes to 147,000).

Regular users of this site during the referendum will remember that one of its more popular features was a «Poll of Polls» of voting intentions in the referendum.

Republican frontrunner Christopher Jacobs is popular, having won more than two - thirds of the countywide vote in his 2014 re-election as Erie County comptroller.

With 11.5 percent of the weighted vote in this year's state GOP convention — more than any other New York county --(thanks to Carl Paladino's 2010 performance), Erie County Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy is a very popular guy.

Another example would be when elected officials vote against the party line for the sake of publicly standing when a bill is unpopular (conversely, popular) in their constituency, all while knowing that the majority is comfortable enough that a few dissenting voices (or a few more votes) won't matter.

This answer makes the more reasonable assumption that there is a significant number of people voting in each state while the other answer truly minimizes the popular vote.

Although historically Fianna Fáil was the most popular party with women voters (the female vote may have been crucial to their success in 1977 in particular), research on more... Continue reading →

More than one - third of the primary vote from last year is up for grabs now and this appears to favor Jackson, based on where Lasher and Tejada were popular.

If voters are more unhappy with the direction of New York than they are worried about jeopardizing popular constitutional provisions that exist, then they'll vote yes.

The popular legislator had won his first two terms with more than two - thirds of the vote, and his opponent in this year's race was not actively campaigning.

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).

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.

This disparity is tied to the Democrats» inefficient distribution of their votes — primarily resulting from the Democratic vote being naturally more concentrated, and in some cases (such as in North Carolina, where Democrats won four of 13 seats while winning the statewide popular vote in House races) due to gerrymandered maps.

While Astorino has not yet formally announced his candidacy, he has made a number of clear indications that he is highly likely to run — regardless of the fact that Paladino, the 2010 GOP / Conservative gubernatorial candidate, has threatened to challenge him on the Conservative Party, effectively splitting votes on the right and making a long - shot change of ousting the popular and well - funded incumbent governor all the more difficult.

The figures do not correlate with national voting intentions, where the «No» campaign is more popular.

Another theory is that people do it not merely because of the chance of changing the outcome of an election, but because it's an act of civic duty, although economist Steve Landsburg, in his popular book «The Armchair Economist», counters «But that ignores the fact that voting takes time away from other more productive acts of civic duty.

Also at 6:30 p.m., Assemblywoman Sandy Galef will host a panel discussion regarding the national popular vote and the Electoral College with Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, Iona College's Dr. Jeanne Zaino and more, Croton Free Library, 171 Cleveland Drive, Croton - On - Hudson.

But it does happen and more often then not, its when the popular party gets so cocky that they feel they can nominate any lousy candidate they want and still have enough votes to hold the safe state.

Mike Homfray, look at the Tories, they were against the state pension free education, the left introduced it, they conceded, moved on in45 they voted against he NHS, labour won the 1950 election, for the Tories to win in1951 ′ they conceded and moved on, in 1967 they were against labour a Keynesiasm, yet labour were popular, despite a few people telling Ted Heath be more right wing he conceded and moved on

In New Jersey's gubernatorial election last year, Republican Gov. Chris Christie swept the ballot, winning more than 60 percent of the popular vote.

A Senate Democratic aide noted that while Democrats may not have enough votes to lower the 60 - vote requirement to cut off filibusters, other reforms could prove more popular.

«At the federal level, presidential candidate Ross Perot remains the self - financing record holder, having poured more than $ 63.5 million of his own cash into a bid that earned him about 20 percent of the national popular vote, zero electoral votes and a third - place finish behind Democrat Bill Clinton and incumbent Republican President George H.W. Bush.»