Sentences with phrase «national popular vote»

But states that sign on to the compact would agree to award their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the overall national popular vote.

The passage of National Popular Vote legislation in both the Senate and Assembly is a coup for Tom Golisano.

The so - called National Popular Vote legislation would guarantee that the candidate who wins the majority of the popular votes in the country would become president.

The system can screw Democrats as easily as it can screw Republicans, and numerous GOP politicians, including former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson and former Illinois governor Jim Edgar, have joined National Popular Vote.

- to wit, if all states were allocating electors proportionally, Clinton not only would have still lost under the existing 2 % popular vote margin in her favor, but, would need over 5 % national popular vote margin to win under a new system - while only needing 3 % margin to win under existing non-proportional elector allocation.

Trent England and Dr. John R. Koza discuss history of the Electoral College, Electoral College vs. national popular vote, and this presidential election.

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:

Numbers can't be established for a «national popular vote» (even one based on a fiction) under a state - by - state system like ours unless all the states have their act together.

Karl Rove is predicting a 3 % Romney plurality in that national popular vote.

Ultimately, California agreed to give their votes to the national popular vote winner, as soon as enough states have done the same to reach a majority of electoral college votes.

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

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore believes Trump is on track to win reelection in 2020 despite his low approval poll ratings, and he encouraged Democrats to back a movement to award Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner.

Billionaire businessman and former gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano, in Albany today to push his national popular vote plan, said he was both «pleased» and «surprised» by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first few months in office.

On the same day his sale of the Buffalo Sabres to Pennsylvania oil and gas magnate Terry Pegula becomes official, Paychex founder erstwhile gubernatorial hopeful Tom Golisano is announcing his intention to try to do away with the Electoral College as part of the National Popular Vote campaign.

My interpretation: a result quite close to the national popular vote.

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..)

I can not believe that the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact passed the Connecticut legislature.I wonder if Connecticut voters know what this really means.

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.

From The Huffington Post: Rep. Steve Israel (D - N.Y.), the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, has proposed a constitutional amendment that would award 29 extra Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote in presidential elections.

Advocates will find allies among those seeking to enhance minority voting rights (particularly in light of recent horrible Supreme Court rulings) and to correct today's shocking geographic skew toward Republicans (which allowed Mitt Romney to beat Barack Obama in more House districts (226 - 209) even though he lost the national popular vote by four percentage points).

Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature provide momentum to a National Popular Vote effort designed to rescue the vast majority of states from irrelevancy in our presidential contests.

The National Popular Vote legislation is good for the senate Republicans as it should be an incentive for the party's presidential candidate to campaign in the state.

With these historical headaches in mind, Stanford computer scientist Dr. John Koza and lawyer Barry Fadem founded an organization in 2006, National Popular Vote, Inc., to spearhead a national campaign to rid America of its flawed method for choosing its president.

Proponents of the National Popular Vote initiative believe that the Electoral College, in place since the first days of the nation, is not the best way to elect a president.

If the bill does manage to pass, it would be the biggest victory for the National Popular Vote movement to date, not only because New York, with its 29 electoral votes, would represent the largest signatory of the compact so far, but also because of the publicity it would lend to a movement that still flies largely under the radar.

Awarding Connecticut's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote may disenfranchise a majority of the individual voters in our state.

Though Governor Andrew Cuomo hasn't taken a public stance on the legislation, Dr. Koza, the National Popular Vote co-founder, tells us that he has «indications that he would be supportive.»

By design, Constitutional amendments are almost impossible to ratify, so they bypassed the process altogether with a simple yet ingenious idea: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

New York lawmakers have approved a bill that would enter the state in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement to award electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the majority of the popular vote.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law to keep New York on the list of states that have joined the National Popular Vote compact past 2018.

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

Republican Senators such as Everett Dirksen and Barry Goldwater also thought that vote fraud «played a role in the election», [42] and that Nixon actually won the national popular vote.

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.

A survey of 800 New York voters conducted on December 22 - 23, 2008 showed 79 % overall support for a national popular vote for President.

The column also opposes the National Popular Vote Plan bill.

«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.»

Indeed, in 2012, ThinkProgress estimated that Democrats would have needed to win the national popular vote in all U.S. House races by 7.25 percentage points in order to eek out a bare majority in Congress's lower chamber.

According to the National Popular Vote advocacy group, the Michigan House of Representatives passed the National Popular Vote bill (HB 6610) in 2008.

· promoting the use of the local UCAT S Bus in the town and village · planning meetings on campaign finance reform and the National Popular Vote · planning candidates» forums for the up - coming elections.

Also in the last session, he was the lead sponsor of the National Popular Vote Plan bill, which didn't pass in Oklahoma.

On November 11, World Net Daily carried this column by Tom Tancredo, explaining why the National Popular Vote Plan idea is beneficial to the United States and beneficial to conservatives.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo backed the National Popular Vote compact which would guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the entire United States.

So the National Popular Vote movement remains stalled in New York until either additional Democratic assemblymen get on board or Speaker Silver decides that making New York a relevant part of presidential politics is more important than respect for party cohesion.