Sentences with phrase «popular vote margin»

JFK's popular vote margin was just over 100,000 votes out of 70 million cast.

Well, even if the popular vote margin matters for political discourse and optics, presumably what matters for those purposes is not the exact difference in popular vote count, but merely the margin measured in percentage points.

Not exact matches

Each state was decided by a razor - thin margin, which allowed Clinton to win the popular vote by roughly 3 million votes yet still lose in the Electoral College.

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.

That's open to interpretation, but for those who chose a club, Man Utd was the most popular response by a clear margin, with 13 % of all votes.

The popular vote was within the margin of error of the polling.

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

The democrats lost the election by a narrow margin in the electoral while winning big in the popular vote.

After all, this was before the devastating results of the US elections, in which Hillary Clinton, despite winning the popular vote by some margin, lost the presidency to Donald Trump.

The events came one day after the inauguration of a U.S. president who brazenly exploited racial animus, misogyny and xenophobia, all while stashing corporatist ambitions under the rug, in a discordant election campaign that saw him lose the popular vote by a substantial margin.