The popular vote gets 100 % of the state's electoral votes.
Of course, if the 2016 election had been conducted based on the winner of
the popular vote getting the presidency then candidates, parties, and voters would all have behaved differently.
Not exact matches
Suggestions are
voted on by Starbucks consumers with the most
popular ones
getting highlighted.
They're in the news over speculation that «fake news» spread via Facebook posts could have influenced the election outcome, and over Google's high placement of a search result reporting wrongly that Donald Trump
got more
popular votes than Hillary Clinton.
But the 1.8 million people who have downloaded the most
popular Donald Trump app, called «Trump Dump,» probably aren't going to
vote for him: The app is a game where the prize for winning is
getting to drop a deuce on the The Donald.
Her work experience ranges from customer management at Organic Valley, a
popular organic dairy co-op, to helping Obama
get re-elected in 2012 as a
Vote Deputy Director at Organizing for America.
Sure, he's definitely
got some
popular vote because of the angle he's approaching some things and the no - nonsense way he does it, but I just don't think he can't
get any further being so cranky.
And the orange cakes — well, those
got the
popular vote, as no one could resist the zesty flavour next to the creamy textures and dark cacao layers.
That said, Turow found «there are a lot of unknowns for this generation: we grew up in the recession, we've
got a trillion dollars in student loan debt, we don't trust our government (the first political event I can remember is the Lewinsky scandal, and then the Gore versus Bush election, when the
popular vote did not
get the presidency).»
The rapper Eminem, whose «Lose Yourself» was recently
voted as the most
popular running song in a Runner's World poll, claims he ran 17 miles a day on the treadmill to beat an addiction to alcohol and painkillers, stating that his «addict's brain» led him to
get carried away with running.
So, even though the
popular vote nationwide is pretty close to 50 - 50, locally you have lopsided contests where Trump can
get, say, 70 % of the
vote from rural areas, while Clinton could
get 70 % of the
vote from inner cities.
But the DRC has rules and procedures, and one of them is that candidates who don't pre-interview don't
get voted on at the straw poll — no matter who they are or how
popular they might be.
Scenario: Electoral
votes are apportioned according to the
popular vote, with the winner
getting the «round up.»
But in exchange for
getting the
popular Democratic gubernatorial candidate on its line — thus ensuring it would well surpass the required 50,000 -
vote mark to live another four years (the party ended up moving to Row D)-- the WFP had to agree to Cuomo's «New NY Agenda,» which included a slew of agenda items — the property tax cap, no new taxes to close the budget deficit etc. — that the left had opposed.
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.
Or if the Libertarians
get a lot of
votes, the
popular party will become more liberate and
get the
votes back at the next election.
She is very big
vote getter and very
popular for having stood up to Eliot Spitzer in the undocumented aliens license controversy, and there may be the perception that McDonald
got nothing of serious substance for his
vote.
I'm thinking of a situation where at year 2, the PM is very
popular in Parliament, so they just call for an election (which passes the Parliament's
vote) to
getting reinstated another 5 years, and then repeating forever.
Criticizing not only Trump, but also the electoral college process that
got him elected over the
popular vote, which went to Clinton.
If, I as suggested earlier on this thread, they
get 39 % of the
popular vote it is quite possible that Tory + UKIP+BNP in England will top 50 %.
As Farron pointed out to me, the party has never done well when the British people
get to
vote on Europe: «Even in 2009,» (when the party was twice as
popular as it is today) «we only won in four of out of the 63 seats we then held at Westminster in the Euros.»
It's often said in UK politics that the Conservatives usually require a 7 percent lead in the
popular vote to gain an overall majority of seats in the House of Commons; but the Labour party can
get a majority with practically no lead at all (indeed it's not inconceivable that the Conservatives could have a small plurality of
votes and Labour still have a majority of seats).
As the Tories have little popularity (the second lowest
popular share of the
vote for any government) it has been necessary for this project that there is a pretence that this not a return to austerity, after the boost to consumption that helped the Tories
get re-elected.
Mr. Ashittey maintained that the NPP will
get not less than 60 % of the
popular votes in Accra in the 2016 elections.
No OMRLP candidate has managed to
get the required 5 % of the
popular vote needed to retain their deposit, but this does not stop people standing.
When a candidate doubled their spending, holding everything else constant, they only
got an extra one percent of the
popular vote.
E.g., in 2016 elections, while candidates from 4 parties ran for President; the two «main» parties» candidates combined
got 96 % of
popular vote and 100 % of electors.
Veteran Tory MP Sir Peter Bottomley took issue with the idea of accountability, arguing that this aspect can often have difficulty translating into
votes: «Some of the most awful rogues have been incredibly
popular,» and other excellent MPs
get knocked out.
In the
popular vote, Candidate A
gets 55 % of the
vote, B
gets 40 %, and C
gets 5 %.
But it does happen and more often then not, its when the
popular party
gets so cocky that they feel they can nominate any lousy candidate they want and still have enough
votes to hold the safe state.
Now, say a party
got 40 seats in the first half of the Parliament but it should've
gotten 80 seats based on
popular vote across the country.
In other words, the
popular vote is likely under - representing the number of people who were not in favor of Trump and despite that, he still
got less
votes total.
In an email release with all caps in the subject line (I think Bellone is a little excited that the imensely
popular Cuomo is campaigning again for him), Bellone says the governor's visit scheduled for Wednesday is part of a major
get - out - the -
vote effort.
They've been
getting the
popular vote for a couple of cycles.
A prime component of the Council's rules reforms, championed by the speaker, was the such
popular bills should
get hearings and
votes.
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.
«They have to be evenly divided by women and men and they will be picked by how they
get the
popular vote,» Lenihan explained.
On a
popular online news aggregator, the researchers found, comments with early, fake positive
votes got considerably higher ratings than controls.
There's the «vertical proximity effect,» whereby unknown candidates whose names appear near those of
popular candidates
get extra
votes.
I love to
get inspired by new bloggers and it's awesome I
got voted most
popular this week
Meanwhile, the second most
popular language to
get hearts racing was Spanish, with 38 % of the
vote, followed by Italian on 24 %.
Meanwhile, the second most
popular language to
get hearts racing was Italian, with 32 % of the
vote, followed by Spanish on 30 %.
The Best
got the
popular vote leading into The Dark Tower, so here we go!
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.
Readers will determine which books rise to the top of the
voting pool, but a dedicated Kindle Scout team will have the final say, choosing from a selection of the most
popular titles after a 30 - day open
voting period to determine which ones
get the final publication nod.
People can poise new initiatives and if they prove
popular via a
voting system, they
get implemented.
As you know, each week, the public
gets to choose the Readers» Choice winning entry by
popular vote and the author is rewarded with a special feature on Saturdays.
This is our top pick for small breeds and we find that it consistently
gets the
popular vote with small dog owners.
Most guests don't come to Waiohai for the pools, they come for Poipu Beach — which regularly
gets voted one of the most
popular beaches in the US.
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.