Sentences with phrase «of electoral college»

Maybe Yellen, who apparently has met with Trump, won his support by toasting the unprecedented size of his electoral college victory and inauguration crowd and rapid pace of policy implementation (just to pick a few things Trump constantly brags about despite their not actually being true).

Because of the electoral college, the country doesn't wait with bated breath to see who won Oregon's seven electoral votes.

This is a winner - take - all system, whereby the candidate who wins the popular vote within a state garners all of the electoral college votes, even if one candidate wins a razor - thin popular vote victory over his or her rival.

Table 2 (a): Number of electoral college votes that would have been won by each candidate if these had been apportioned proportionally (PrEV), as contrasted with the number won by each candidate in the actual election («winner takes all» /» first past the post»).

It is a well - understood consequence of the electoral college that only a handful of swing states ever play a central role in picking the president.

Ballots of the three sections of the electoral college will be conducted in time for the new leader to be named by the party's annual conference in Manchester at the end of September.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses Trump's feelings of the electoral college vs. the popular vote, the revised travel ban, and Sean Spicer.

All sections of the electoral college will be looking for a contender best able to fight the Tories and the coalition.»

Abe has around 65 % of the electoral college of Diet members and party activists, while the two alternatives share around 15 % each.

The stacking up of nominations in just one - third of the electoral college gave the false impression of unanimity.

That would maintain trade unionist involvement with an equal weighting (rather than half the weighting as in the recent electoral college) and avoid what Sunder Katwala calls a «legitimacy question» (the possibility that different candidates would win different sections of an electoral college) because Ed would simply have won by a much larger margin.

The Party is dependent on the donations of millions of union members; unions have representatives on the National Executive Committee and the National Policy Forum; they can send delegates to Constituency Labour Parties; they make up a third of the electoral college (thus preventing the most Blairite candidate for the Labour leadership from taking the crown); and they have a major role in selecting prospective Labour candidates.

And even if they could get enough electors to give the election to Hillary Clinton, the Republican controlled House of Representatives votes to accept or reject the report of the electoral college.

In the event of an electoral college tie, or indeed any scenario in which no candidate receives a majority of electoral college votes, the election is decided by the houseof representatives.

There is a mechanism for dealing with the case when no Presidential candidate gets an overall majority of the electoral college, but that's not quite the same as what I think you're asking.

But we have to face the facts - namely, that two out of three parts of our electoral college voted for someone else.

Today's Sun carries a new YouGov poll on the Labour leadership race, taking account of the constituent parts of the electoral college taking part in the vote.

Miliband will insist on it; ballot his Party and win; decouple Labour from the unions altogether (throwing them out of the electoral college that elects the Party's leader in the process) impress voters as a strong leader - and transform their view of him and his Party.

Figure 6: Number of electoral college votes won by Republican presidential election candidate by region, 1972 - 2016

That left the road open to Neil Kinnock's «coronation» victory in all three selections of the electoral college to succeed Foot, a 71.27 % share of the ballot.

But for a shift of 0.65 % of the electoral college the wrong way, DM might have been leader.

Navigating the Byzantine wiles of the electoral college, You Gov has picked perceived wisdom up by the lapels, given it a good shake, and dumped it in the recycling bin by predicting a wafer thin victory for Ed Miliband.

During a phone call last weekend, President Donald Trump blasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over a refugee agreement and boasted about the magnitude of his electoral college win.

Does this also disqualify the US, because of the electoral college?

* I know there has been a lot of debate this cycle about the role, efficacy and morality of the electoral college, but for this answer I'm just keeping it simple.

When Trump speaks of the electoral college being unfair to Republicans he is making a fool of himself.

Voters directly elect members of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and also directly elect members of the electoral college who in turn elect the U.S....

His brother, Ed, overtook him after winning strong union support in the trade union and affiliated societies section of the electoral college.

Benn was only narrowly defeated by Healey in a bitterly fought deputy leadership election in 1981 after the introduction of an electoral college intended to widen the voting franchise to elect the leader and their deputy.

In the union section of the electoral college, representing a third of the college, union political levy payers vote individually, on ballots requiring them to tick a box saying they support Labour.

But their influence extends beyond the third of the electoral college they control, Professor Mark Wickham - Jones and Richard Jobson demonstrated.

Also, I think Americans in general are pretty familiar with the concept of the electoral college system.

[43] In the fourth and final stage of the redistribution of votes after three candidates had been eliminated, Ed Miliband led in the trade unions and affiliated organisations section of the electoral college (19.93 % of the total to David's 13.40 %), but in both the MPs and MEPs section (15.52 % to 17.81 %), and Constituency Labour Party section (15.20 % to 18.14 %), came second.

Ed Miliband subsequently won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 September 2010, after second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, achieving the support of 50.654 % of the electoral college, defeating his brother by 1.3 %.

Some states have moved to a more proportional allocation of their electoral college votes.

Labelled as the continuity Blair candidate, David's victory speech — secured across all three sections of the electoral college, albeit very narrowly with a higher - than - expected turnout from USDAW members in the trade union component, emphasised the need to capture economic credibility.

MPs who vote in the final round are worth 33.33 / 262 so about 0.127 % of the electoral college.

According to its supporters, one of the primary virtues of the electoral college is that winning candidates must obtainconcurrent majorities from around the country to win, rather than appeal to clusters of voters whose votes could be aggregated across states and regions but nevertheless might not represent all strata of society.

One fourth of the electoral college is renewed every year, precisely the one who was elected four years ago.

Reminds me of the electoral college

Ultimately, like most close presidential elections, JFK won because of the electoral college.

Not exact matches

The CEO of Desjardins is chosen by an electoral college of regional representatives.

Sabato's Crystal Ball, the forecasting blog run by Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Centre for Politics, has Clinton winning 347 electoral college votes to 191 for Trump.

That's because the states that happen to be swing states, meaning they are crucial to an electoral - college victory, also happen to be places where there is a high concentration of manufacturing employment, like Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, and New Hampshire.

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.

«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.»

Those familiar with the geographics of the US electoral college will immediately recognize that there is a high correlation between the steel producers and the «swing states» which most often determine the outcome of the American elections.

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.

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:

It leaves some ends loose (for example, on state nullification of federal laws) and undertreats some areas of current interest (for example, the electoral college).