Sentences with phrase «popular vote on»

Cuomo clearly won the popular vote on Tuesday.

For the barely United Kingdom meanwhile, the chances of an in / out popular vote on membership are growing.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP)-- The government's plan to hold a popular vote on whether Australia should allow same - sex marriage suffered a setback Monday when a political party announced it would not support the proposed plebiscite.

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Launched by the Los Angeles venture - capital firm Science's mobile studio, Wishbone shows you two options and lets you vote on which one you like more — a spin on the popular «Would you rather?»

Proposals to declassify the board and require majority voting are almost always popular with shareholders, so it's not like these companies are going out on a limb.

Spain's Banco Popular announced on Wednesday after the European close that its board had unanimously proposed Emilio Saracho as chairman and agreed to hold an extraordinary meeting in February in order for its shareholders to vote on the proposal.

I conducted a quick poll on which flavor sounded best (vote here) and tested out the least popular flavor.

Stories on the U.S. election tend to focus on national polls, ignoring the fact that the president is chosen through the electoral college, not a popular vote.

Suggestions are voted on by Starbucks consumers with the most popular ones getting highlighted.

At a meeting with lawmakers on Monday, Trump falsely claimed that he lost the popular vote because 3 to 5 million undocumented immigrants had voted in the election.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer doubled down Tuesday on Donald Trump's false claim that he only lost the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election because 3 to 5 million people voted illegally.

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.

Duterte, who won just under 40 % of the vote in a five - way presidential election last May, remains popular in the Philippines, despite his at - times bellicose behavior and his bloody crackdown on drugs, which has claimed thousands of lives.

One of the governance principles is that «Shareholders should be entitled to voting rights in proportion to their economic interest...» In other words, the Group does not favour multi-voting share structures that characterize over 80 companies on the TSX and that have been popular in Canadian IPOs over the last few years (see comments on Aritzia's IPO here).

Fortunately, researchers stumbled on a poll with hundreds of votes on one of the most popular Dark Web criminal forums.

On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

I thought the GOP had recognized by now that they will have to move such things to the forefront if they are to survive as a party that will ever hold the center or elect a president on the popular vote.

Numbers can't be established for a «national popular vote» (even one based on a fiction) under a state - by - state system like ours unless all the states have their act together.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: How the Faithful Voted: 2012 Preliminary Analysis In his re-election victory, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the national popular vote (50 % to 48 %).

The «power of words» jumped up a few places on the chart and peaked as the fourth most - popular topic (behind voting, marriage, and forgiveness) following the release of the Access Hollywood clip portraying Trump's crude remarks on women last month.

Any strategy that depends on winning over 60 percent of the white vote in order to squeak out a popular vote victory is fatally flawed.

It was a popular - vote ballot initiative in response to the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.

Put to popular vote the query, which they enjoy the better, ragtime and jazz on the one side or Chopin's Nocturnes on the other, and where would the majority be?

5 stars based on 92 votes Share on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on Pinterest Inspired by one of the most popular Cooking Light chicken recipes, these chicken thighs are delicious, family - friendly (they're not too spicy), and incredibly easy to prepare.

TJ's announced their most popular products (voted on by the people, not by actual sales counts) in 12 different categories — those items that keep lines long (but moving), customers loyal, and employee Hawaiian shirts freshly pressed.

Each week, two entrants will advance to the final round, one based on popular vote and one Jagermeister - chosen wildcard, aptly named for Roach's gym in Los Angeles.

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.

SI.com's Sam Amick did a quick survey of front office types on the most popular prospect behind Davis, and Beal actually tied Robinson with six votes, with Michael Kidd - Gilchrist falling behind.

While ballots are still being counted, Trump's on pace to become the fifth president to win the election, while losing the popular vote.

WAUKEGAN TOWNSHIP — The Waukegan Township Board of Trustees has voted to work with the Waukegan Park District on a possible deal to provide additional parking for each other's popular properties.

Because of the advantages of tactical voting, most people concentrate on a popular candidate who is good enough.

However, comparing his performance in the 2012 election where he stood on the NPP ticket, it showed that Akufo Addo may not be as popular as his apparatchiks would make the country believ; he only added 188,630 additional votes.

The Presidential Advisory Commission on Elections is investigating claims initially made by President Donald Trump first made as a candidate that votes were cast illegally, which he later attributed to his loss in the popular vote tally.

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore believes Trump is on track to win reelection in 2020 despite his low approval poll ratings, and he encouraged Democrats to back a movement to award Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner.

On the same day his sale of the Buffalo Sabres to Pennsylvania oil and gas magnate Terry Pegula becomes official, Paychex founder erstwhile gubernatorial hopeful Tom Golisano is announcing his intention to try to do away with the Electoral College as part of the National Popular Vote campaign.

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.

Immediately after the referendum I argued that «While, given its royal prerogative, it is not altogether clear whether the government would have to take note of a parliamentary vote [on Brexit], it stands to reason that since the unconventional route of a popular referendum did not produce sufficient grounds to act on, the government has at least a moral duty to listen to the opinion of the body to which it is after all accountable.»

When there is a clear consensus on an issue in the parliament, there is typically no popular vote.

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.

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.

On the other hand, the presence of legislators in the chamber who have not received «positive» votes provides a check on the popular democratic legitimacy of the reformed bodOn the other hand, the presence of legislators in the chamber who have not received «positive» votes provides a check on the popular democratic legitimacy of the reformed bodon the popular democratic legitimacy of the reformed body.

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.

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The President is certainly not popular on the right, but Romney will need to fight for every vote, conservative or independent, to win in the fall.

I have bailed out on the Democratic Party just like it has bailed out on the popular vote of the public that supported Hillary Clinton over Obama.

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 %.

If the result is tight, or if the popular vote gives a different winner to the tally of seats, as much will depend on fixing a narrative in the early stages as straightforward math.

The most effective vote winning policies are ones which are popular on their own, but which also tell a bigger story about the party's values and are consistent with their other policies - opposing the Iraq war and top - up fees were both popular policies, but also clearly signalled to disillusioned Labour voters that the Lib Dems shared their values as a centre - left party of peace and public services.

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.»

«final polling averages in the US have missed the presidential popular vote by only 2 percentage points on average.