Sentences with phrase «of national popular vote»

Only 24 states and the District of Columbia bind their electors to their state's popular voting majority, meaning electors from the remaining states are free to switch their votes to reflect the outcome of the national popular vote for president, should the Electoral College vote prove out of step with the popular vote.

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

«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.»

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

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

The French National Front exceeded 15 percent of the popular vote in 1995 and 2002.

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.

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.

The change corresponds with Clinton's drop in the national popular - vote lead: from a 5.7 - percentage - point lead in our estimate on Oct. 28 to a 2.9 - point lead now — so a swing of about 3 points against her.

The President of the Republic shall become permanently unavailable to serve by reason of any of the following events: death; resignation; removal from office by decision of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice; permanent physical or mental disability certified by a medical board designated by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice with the approval of the National Assembly; abandonment of his position, duly declared by the National Assembly; and recall by popular vote.

Popular radio personality and member of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abeiku Santana, has said the party will win the 2016 elections because Ghanaians will not vote for a leader who can not keep his house in order.

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..)

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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.

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.

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

APC's National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi said: «With rrevelations of how money - for - votes and systematic rigging was brazenly perpetuated during the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, the All Progressives Congress is mindful of the popular axiom, «A leopard can not change its spot.»»

* The British National Party (BNP) is a far - right, whites only, political party that gained 0.7 % of the popular vote in the 2005 election and has no seats in the British parliament.

This means they are allowed to cast a vote in favor of any candidate at the Democratic National Convention regardless of of the popular vote.

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