Sentences with phrase «presidential electoral college»

In October 2007, Issa announced that he was supporting the Presidential Electoral Reform Act, a ballot measure that would have changed how California selects its representatives to the presidential electoral college.

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Let's look, however, at the electoral college vote — you know, the votes all presidential candidates need to win.

Ultimately, like most close presidential elections, JFK won because of the electoral college.

In the 2012 presidential campaign, while other pundits predicted a Romney victory, he forecast a large Obama margin in the electoral college, ultimately missing just two states.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

If the US presidential election abolishes the electoral college, would this mean that extremist voters (someone who fanatically supports a specific political direction and will vote whoever supports it the most) play more of a role in the election?

In the presidential election of 1876, an Electoral Commission was appointed which chose between electoral college results offered by some disputed states.

Coming off Mitt Romney's almost - six - million - vote loss in the presidential election in 2012, which resulted in an electoral - college margin of 332 - 206 (270 are needed to win), Republican national chairman Reince Priebus put together a committee of five persons to examine, explain and address the party's losses on the national level.

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).

Figure 6: Number of electoral college votes won by Republican presidential election candidate by region, 1972 - 2016

There is a mechanism for dealing with the case when no Presidential candidate gets an overall majority of the electoral college, but that's not quite the same as what I think you're asking.

At 5:30 p.m., a protest will be held in front of the campaign headquarters of Hillary Clinton calling upon her to support the inclusion in the upcoming presidential debates of all the candidates on enough ballots to win the electoral college, 1 Pierrepont Plaza, Brooklyn.

The state is worth 29 electoral college votes and has generally leaned left in past presidential elections.

or «Explain in a few sentences what you know about how the electoral college operates in presidential elections.»

The result of this cherry - picking is that democratic presidential candidates would have to win the popular vote by 6 percent or more (a landslide) in order to edge out republicans in the electoral college.