Sentences with phrase «popular vote win»

He was very awesome regardless, and totally earned the popular vote win.

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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.

We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

The president tweeted in late November: «In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.

Trump secured the presidency with 306 electoral votes to Clinton's 232, but Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million.

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.

Hours later he reminded American voters that, even though Donald Trump won more electoral votes, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.

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.

Second, very few U.S. presidents in recent history have won two elections with a majority of the popular vote.

[91] After her win in the April 22, 2008 Pennsylvania Democratic primary and a calculation of popular votes that excluded caucuses and included the controversial Michigan and Florida Democratic primaries, Corzine reaffirmed his support for her.

The Real Minority Party: Republicans have only won the popular vote in a presidential election once since 1988.

Last time the ruling UMNO - led Barisan Nasional coalition received a minority of the popular vote, only winning a majority of the seats thanks to some creatively drawn electoral boundaries.

«Yeah, and he also won the popular vote,» Avenatti said of Trump.

The PCs won 61 of 83 seats in the provincial legislature, with 47 percent of the popular vote (CBC, Alberta Votes).

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.

The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.

In order to overcome these barriers, Democrats would have to win the congressional popular vote by at least 8 % to 10 % to have a chance of regaining control of the House of Representatives.

The Saskatchewan Party won 37 seats with 51 % of the popular vote and the NDP won 21 seats with 37 % of the vote.

Brandon Watson explains why the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact --- in which states assign their votes in the electoral college to whoever wins the most votes countrywide --- is sheer madhattery:

He also explains what we already knew: Romney has to win the popular vote by probably 2 % to win the electoral vote.

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.

You said, «Very good points, but do you not think there's some flaw there when you can win through the electoral college and yet not the overall popular vote?

Very good points, but do you not think there's some flaw there when you can win through the electoral college and yet not the overall popular vote?

Damian is right, the electoral college doesn't make much sense anymore after being able to tally votes a lot easier, plus, what does it mean when a president wins the electoral college but not the popular vote?

It was clear that Islamic parties were going to win the elections with 80 percent of the popular vote.

The GOP has not won the popular vote in 5 out of the last 6 presidential elections; that selection would guarantee 6 out of 7.

Yo moron, Al Gore won the popular majority vote beating George Bush but because of the electrical Bush one.

But in November 2004, regardless of claims about voter fraud, Bush actually won the popular vote by over 3.5 million ballots, making his regime and his wars ours.

John F. Kennedy won 49.7 percent of popular vote, just over 100,000 more votes than Richard Nixon.

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.

Democrats have won the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections.

Ummm actually Romney is winning, he has more delegates than the other three combined and is leading in the popular vote by over a million votes.

He won a somewhat larger share of the popular vote than had Buchanan, Huckabee, or Santorum — though he still finished a distant second for the nomination.

And there's a majority of people out there, since Hillary won the popular vote, that don't buy his act.

I don't know what they expected to happen — Verstappen is not only massively popular, but the same pass won the FIA's «Action of the Year» award, which was also a public vote.

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

In cities with over 500,000 inhabitants, the Democratic Party won 69 percent of the popular vote and in those from 50 to 500,000 inhabitants, 58 percent.

It is a statewide tally of popular votes where the candidate with the plurality or majority of votes wins.

In 2004, the Rs managed a narrow victory around the country, with Bush winning the popular vote and electoral college but with the Rs essentially keeping the same number of seats in the House.

The instant runoff system is considered a very good voting system when choosing between multiple options because it avoids the spoiler effect (e.g. two similar options stealing each other votes so a 3rd candidate who is actually less popular than them wins), doesn't discourage votes for options perceived as underdogs and leads to a compromise most people can agree to.

I think it's worth mentioning that the point of the 50 % + rule is to ensure that a party that wins the popular vote should not lose the next election due to gerrymandering.

We all know the situation could arise in the U.S. where one candidate wins the popular vote but another one the electoral college.

This system can lead to an interesting side - effect: It is possible to win an election without winning the popular vote.

If a state has 30 electors and party A wins with 51 % of the popular vote, then 30 electors supporting the candidate for party A will be chosen.

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.

Specifically, state level California Republicans had been pushing an effort in the legislature there to assign California's 55 electors by proportion of the popular vote to give them an opportunity to win some votes in a state with 12 % of the national population that they haven't had success winning in a generation.

From the thirteen candidates in the running, even the five most popular candidates only receive between 5 % and 18 % of votes; thus, falling far behind the 40 % required for a win in the first round.

In Hungary, Fidesz won more than a two - thirds majority in parliament in 2010 with 68 % of the popular vote.

Popular radio personality and member of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abeiku Santana, has said the party will win the 2016 elections because Ghanaians will not vote for a leader who can not keep his house in order.

It also creates the unfortunate situation that a candidate can win the popular vote but still lose the election because of the way electoral votes are distributed.