Sentences with phrase «popular vote changes»

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..)

Not exact matches

The moratorium episode — the closest that Florida's Democratic gun - control proponents have come to success after a Feb. 14 shooting rampage, at a high school in Parkland, left 17 people dead — illustrates why it is so difficult to pass firearm restrictions in the State Legislature: When it comes to backing a significant change, even a popular one, the votes just aren't there.

The Hebrew Christian Alliance of America was forced by popular vote nearly 60 years later, in 1975, to change its name to the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America.

That he lost the popular vote does not change this.

The Park District Board voted Thursday to keep the popular event afloat but agreed to make some changes.

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.

Using status in this way is a pretty common campaigning technique in the UK, though what's become more popular here (at least in the Liberal Democrats) is changing your profile picture to a graphic that says you are backing / have voted for a particular candidate.

There's certainly much more to be said about the economic repercussions of the Leave vote, which, alongside changes in party leadership is a genuine «leap in the dark,» but it is important to address directly and forcefully the question of popular anger that led to the success of Leave.

In the early 19th century, most states did not hold popular elections for presidential electors and the legislature just chose them directly; as time went on, more and more states changed to doing popular vote for them, but as recently as 1876, the Colorado legislature appointed its electors rather than hold an election because it was newly admitted and didn't have the time to do so.

While most delegates are awarded by popular votes in state - by - state elections, superdelegates largely consist of party leaders and elected senators, members of Congress and governors, and can change their mind at any time.

Under the compact concept, states could essentially agree to follow a popular vote model without a constitutional change....)

While Astorino has not yet formally announced his candidacy, he has made a number of clear indications that he is highly likely to run — regardless of the fact that Paladino, the 2010 GOP / Conservative gubernatorial candidate, has threatened to challenge him on the Conservative Party, effectively splitting votes on the right and making a long - shot change of ousting the popular and well - funded incumbent governor all the more difficult.

I'm not sure if a change based on Article 48 would make a new popular vote necessary).

While I can not change history to repeal the 17th, I can remain an advocate against popular vote for the president.

Another theory is that people do it not merely because of the chance of changing the outcome of an election, but because it's an act of civic duty, although economist Steve Landsburg, in his popular book «The Armchair Economist», counters «But that ignores the fact that voting takes time away from other more productive acts of civic duty.

There is nothing in principle to prevent the government changing the voting system without a referendum but, after the precedent of 2011, that would risk popular opprobrium.

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.»»

Not only did he provide a clear, and popular, direction for the future of the country, but though his consistency and, above all, integrity he was able to unite the disparate parts of the Labour party and galvanise the country to vote overwhelmingly for change.

He failed to get even 1 percent of the popular vote; Mr. Reagan during his two terms in office changed the political dynamic of the nation, generally not in a good way.

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.

Cannes is a notoriously tricky (and often well - nigh impossible) contest to predict: partly because the voting body is an ever - changing template, but largely because there's been no time ahead of the festival for any kind of critical or popular consensus to build around the mostly unseen films on the shortlist.

This voting change, however, could spell a triple victory for the very popular Peter Dinklage in Game of Thrones or a repeat for Viola Davis in How to Get Away with Murder.

They are hugely popular with parents and up to now Labour have fought tooth and nail against them including voting against them and what they said today has changed absolutely nothing.»

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.

Parsing this data on a political map, as the Wall Street Journal has done, suggests that these changes will be popular within geographic areas that voted Republican in the 2016 election.

iRacers have been voting for changes to be made on the ever popular Blancpain Sprint Series for the...

As former Vice President, the Democratic candidate who won the popular vote for President in 2000, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and the subject of the Academy Award winning 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore is probably the most recognizable global spokesperson on climate change.

But if Obama had won without the popular vote last week, hell would've been raised by the GOP, FOX News, and all the other money - rich heavy - hitters who might have the weight to get it changed.

If the Hillary Clinton popular vote is the proxy for supporting Democrat proposed climate change solutions,