Sentences with phrase «own electoral vote»

Trump repeated the claim that the Russia investigation is an effort by Democrats to save face after an embarrassing loss, citing the number of electoral votes he won.

They also argue that it threatens due process rights because it may not get done by the federal deadline to certify the vote, putting Wisconsin's electoral votes in jeopardy.

So much so that he promised — on Twitter, for the world to see — that he'd eat a bug if Donald Trump earned more than 240 electoral votes.

But black votes for Obama were inconsequential in preventing Alabama's nine electoral votes from being delivered to John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom defeated Obama in that state with 60 % of the vote.

A one - two punch of Ohio, home to 18 electoral votes, and Pennsylvania closes most doors to the required 270 electoral votes for Trump.

Black migrants from the South fanned out to cities across the Midwest and Northeast — St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York — in states that happened to be rich in electoral votes.

In 2012, Obama won Ohio with a slim 50.1 % of the vote, a victory that handed the incumbent 18 electoral votes.

In tandem, the campaign is investing heavily in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachable.

Trump secured the presidency with 306 electoral votes to Clinton's 232, but Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million.

On the eve of the election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refused to give up on Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes.

While Florida remains the only swing state that's still too close to call, Obama bested his Republican challenger Mitt Romney regardless, as he raked in at least 303 electoral votes during yesterday's election.

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

Trump is still likely to have the majority of electoral votes, and Hillary Clinton will not be president (neither will Jill Stein for that matter).

Counting has not yet been completed but Trump has at least 289 electoral votes, more than the 270 minimum necessary to win the presidency.

If Donald Trump manages to gather the 270 electoral votes he needs to win by the end of Tuesday, buying in equity markets would be a smart move, said strategist Mark Grant.

He also explains what we already knew: Romney has to win the popular vote by probably 2 % to win the electoral vote.

Olsen ends up agreeing with the RCP no - tie number (and more or less Nate Silver's number) for Obama — 303 electoral votes.

This is not, for me, a mere contest of ideologies, or a competition for electoral votes.

Using his brain - spinningly complex algorithm, Silver predicted Obama would take 313 electoral votes and would win the popular vote by a 2.5 % margin.

Obama is going to win about 65 % of the electoral votes to romney's 35 %.

In 1788 there were 69 total electoral votes from 10 states.

Despite not getting a majority, the Republicans would still get all six electoral votes from that state.

in 1992 Presidential elections, Ross Perot got 19 % of the votes, but zero electoral votes (some argue, effectively handing Presidency to Bill Clinton the latter might likely be partly why in 2016, 3rd party candidates got only 4 % combined).

We're slowly learning, following the rejected referenda on elected mayors and the electoral voting system, that when you give the public a choice on a specific issue the decisive battleground is never the actual issues.

Define a coalition as winning if the total number of electoral votes of the state in that coalition is 270 or more (let's ignore at first that two small states make things more complicated by allowing a mixed elector group).

It is really surprising how Delaware with just 3 electoral votes, has almost the same power than Virgina which has 10.

But Clinton has many more options to secure the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

In the recent 2012 election, if all states had switched to «proportional» allocation of electoral votes, what effect would that have had on the outcome?

Now, again, Alaska in reality, only has 3 electoral votes.

Several states have laws that purport to restrict or punish faithless electors for their electoral votes.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

For example, three Candidates A, B and C receive 60, 37, and 3 per cent of the popular vote in State X. Because State X has 10 electoral votes, the candidate would receive 6, 4 and 0 electoral votes, respectively (see Table 1).

The constitutionally tortious conduct is not subject to congressional immunity and would be the jettison of Article II of the Constitution by failure to stop and / or object to the counting of electoral votes for Barack H. Obama who has admitted that at the time of his birth his father was a Kenyan / British citizen and not a citizen of the United States of America.

Moreover, each and every member of Congress should be notified that he or she is personally liable (can be sued) for his or her own failure, or the same in conspiracy with other members, to perform what is a ministerial and constitutional duty, that is, to require and / or insist that Presidential electoral votes only be counted for candidates who are «natural born citizens» under Article II of the United States Constitution, the failure of which creates a cause of action for deprivation of claimants» constitutional rights (as allowed under the Bivens case) against employees of the Federal Government, in this case, to a lawful President and Commander in Chief, and therefore, for deprivation of adequate continuation of the United States as a Constitutional Republic.

43 % of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes in 1992.

Subsequently, votes would be distributed to candidates on a proportional basis: candidates would receive a fraction of the electoral votes of each state, equivalent to the percentage of the popular vote they garnered during the election.

It is key to note that not all candidates who run for office will receive electoral votes, as they will need to meet a popular vote threshold specific to each state.

In fact, Democrats have only controlled both chambers twice in the last twenty years (103rd and 110th Congresses) and historical data show that there are thirteen states that Democrats have not won in the last seven elections,, and five they have only won once, totaling almost 160 electoral votes.

This is overcome by removing the surplus electoral vote from the candidate receiving the lowest portion of the popular vote.

... Clinton would actually have won a few more electoral votes in 2016 had all states used proportional allocation by district (though she'd still fall short of 270).

This is exemplified in Table 2 where a distribution of 57, 37 and 6 per cent in a state with 10 electoral votes translates into 6, 4 and 1 votes respectively.

Bryan - Watson didn't carry any states, but Watson got 27 electoral votes.

It also creates the unfortunate situation that a candidate can win the popular vote but still lose the election because of the way electoral votes are distributed.

A ghost ballot occurs when three or more candidates receive a percentage of the vote in a manner that causes the electoral votes to round up and exceed the allotted state votes.

Some states are «proportional», giving a candidate a percentage of electoral votes based upon their percentage of the popular vote.

But electoral votes have to come in in whole numbers.

By contrast, the unit rule (by which states award all their electoral votes to the plurality winner in the state) that 48 states employ under the electoral college encourages third parties, especially regional candidates like Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968.

Those two ways are: (1) small states have more electoral votes than big states relatively to their population, (2) the countries is...

McCain comfortably won the electoral votes tied to the 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts.

Gerrymandering is when a partisan committee moves around the borders of voting districts to favor their own party, squeezing the maximum amount of electoral votes possible out of a certain area of land.