Sentences with phrase «not by popular vote»

Saddam Hussein rose to power by assassination not by popular vote, by the way.

Rep. Chris Collins said Thursday that he believes Donald Trump will still pull off a narrow victory over Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential race, not by the popular vote but by the mechanics of the Electoral College.

The president of the United States is elected not by popular vote, but by the Electoral College.

Not exact matches

Seeing as H1 2017 already has seen 5.65 million Chinese travellers lavishing 290 million baht ($ 8.75 million) 6, this aim seems well achievable, particularly as Thailand is not only one of the most popular vacation spots for Chinese in general, but was also voted the # 1 holiday destination for Chinese this National Day Golden Week by Ctrip.

«Walmart does not pay employees enough», «Walmart is anti-union», «Walmart sells poor quality goods from China», «Walmart is for unattractive people who live in flyover and voted for Trump» are some popular responses (the last one para-phrased a bit by me, but nevertheless one that reflects a prevailing sentiment).

U.S. popular media echoed the European right by trying to frighten Greeks and their sympathizers into believing that the vote is whether or not to remain part of Europe — as if Britain does not have its own currency while remaining part of the European Union.

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.

Last time we all checked, Christianity rules were not decided by popular vote.

Ireland's recent decision to approve same - sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country's Catholic reputation in ruins.Of course, this shift didn't come about overnight — secularization has been in the works for some time — but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future.

5 stars based on 92 votes Share on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on Pinterest Inspired by one of the most popular Cooking Light chicken recipes, these chicken thighs are delicious, family - friendly (they're not too spicy), and incredibly easy to prepare.

By recipe testing, not just popular vote.

TJ's announced their most popular products (voted on by the people, not by actual sales counts) in 12 different categories — those items that keep lines long (but moving), customers loyal, and employee Hawaiian shirts freshly pressed.

Specifically, state level California Republicans had been pushing an effort in the legislature there to assign California's 55 electors by proportion of the popular vote to give them an opportunity to win some votes in a state with 12 % of the national population that they haven't had success winning in a generation.

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.

Likewise, one of the defects of a popular vote system (corrected by the Electoral College) is that rural votes don't get a lot of attention for the same reason.

Unless there are additional rules I don't know about, you could lose the popular vote by literally 100 % and end up as president if you could somehow convince the electors to vote for you «faithlessly».

The plan would be put to a popular vote in November's election, even if it is not approved by the legislature.

Also, you raise a good point re: Russia; I didn't make it clear enough in the question but IMHO elections of a tzar don't count - by «elections» I meant popular elections (e.g. majority of population is eligible to vote), not «10 boyars electing someone».

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).

mvy, you make a great argument on how the constitution does not specify how electors are awarded, but you fail to mention that the constitution clearly states that only the House of Representatives member is elected by popular vote.

The founders did not want the president to be elected by popular vote, just like they did not want the US Senators to be elected by popular vote.

When asked by popular Boston radio host, Howie Carr, whether he feels bad that he may have drained off enough votes to stop the Republican from eliminating the Democrat, Fishman said, «I was not in the race to weaken either candidate.

He's leading by 35 points in the polls — and is already more popular among women than men — but that hasn't stopped Gov. Cuomo from courting still more women's votes via a new ballot line: the «Women's Equality Party.»

But holding this support will not be enough by itself to secure a popular vote large enough to deliver a strong mandate for change under a Miliband government.

He called the Golden Globes «one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote,» cracked that «in 12 days» we are going to find out what it would be like if Game of Thrones» King Joffrey lived, and joked that even Florence Foster Jenkins, the terrible opera singer recently played by Meryl Streep, wouldn't agree to perform at the inauguration.

Only voted in by popular demand, Crysis shows up with its nanosuit just to make sure its competition doesn't have anything to worry about.

(Nope, the president is not elected by direct popular vote, as you may have thought.)

These are not popular - vote awards, but juried awards by select judges among the very people who read and review YA books every day: book blogging community.

That means it is not the book for them, but not that it is a bad book and that it should be changed by popular vote.

I haven't personally had any bad experiences with the community in these matches, but I have read a number of posts on Reddit and Steam where new players have been kicked by popular vote very early on, simply because they hadn't had the chance to get to grips with the game yet.