Sentences with phrase «popular vote outcome»
It's impossible to say whether Trump would have done better or worse than under the electoral college, making the petition to have the electors choose Hilary Clinton instead misguided, at least insofar as they rely on the popular vote outcome as justification.
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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.
Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.
The outcome of the national popular vote versus the electoral college in the recent elections is an example.
It's no objection to either one of them to say that they might cause an outcome that is different from the popular vote.
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.
This, they said will ensure the Chief Executives are the outcome of popular votes and thus be accountable to their constituents.
Only 24 states and the District of Columbia bind their electors to their state's popular voting majority, meaning electors from the remaining states are free to switch their votes to reflect the outcome of the national popular vote for president, should the Electoral College vote prove out of step with the popular vote.