Sentences with phrase «presidential popular vote»

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

And the presidential popular vote in 2008?

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Since Fox News arrived, Republicans have lost the popular vote in every presidential election since 2004, Kristol added.

During a surreal exchange, anchor David Muir grilled Trump over his continued spreading of the falsehood that millions of illegal ballots were cast in the 2016 election, which Trump had previously said was the reason for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton beating him in the popular vote by 3 million ballots.

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.

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.

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

Republicans have lost the popular vote in five of the last six Presidential elections, and lost the popular vote for Confess, although they have the House because the districts are rigged.

Representing more than a quarter of the electorate and voting with the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since at least 1972, Roman Catholics are quintessential swing voters.

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.

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

It's been a rough stretch for Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson, although I'm uncertain that receiving a mere 7 % of the popular vote (per 538's Election Forecast) warrants the title «candidate» in this two - party election.

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.

The party currently holds 9 of 57 seats in the legislature and their presidential candidate achieved a full 20 % of the popular vote in the 2010 presidential elections.

Legislation is advancing to the Senate that adds Connecticut to a group of states wanting to pool their Electoral College votes for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.

Two days from the presidential election, here's where we stand: tight in the popular vote, but with a small but consistent Obama lead in the bulk of the battleground states.

In the early 19th century, most states did not hold popular elections for presidential electors and the legislature just chose them directly; as time went on, more and more states changed to doing popular vote for them, but as recently as 1876, the Colorado legislature appointed its electors rather than hold an election because it was newly admitted and didn't have the time to do so.

The Senate also granted final legislative approval Saturday to a bill allowing Connecticut to join an interstate compact that would ensure the state's electoral votes go to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote, provided enough other states join the agreement.

Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature provide momentum to a National Popular Vote effort designed to rescue the vast majority of states from irrelevancy in our presidential contests.

The National Popular Vote legislation is good for the senate Republicans as it should be an incentive for the party's presidential candidate to campaign in the state.

Hundreds of those who did vote in Malliotakis» race, but not for her, cast write - ins, including several for local Democrat Justin Brannan, who is now running for City Council, certain write - ins for presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and even gag votes for deceased individuals, such as Elvis Presley, or fictional characters from popular culture, such as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.

The measure is being supported by Albany area Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, a Democrat, who says the bill would have New York join an interstate compact in which states would give all of their Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote nationwide.

Founded in 1995, the party found mainstream success when Ross Perot obtained eight percent of the popular vote in the 1996 presidential election and Jesse Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1998.

This will be the 2nd time this year that the three - time Presidential candidate will tour the region — a region for which the NPP has set an agenda of capturing at least 3 seats in parliament and 30 % of the popular vote.

As such, in elections where a large portion of electorate isn't terribly inspired by either candidates, and mostly votes for «lesser of two evils» in current FPTP, the two major party candidates just might accrue enough down - votes that a 3rd party candidate who isn't nearly as disliked will, on balance, win over both of them (or at the very least, acquire more than the abysmal 4 % combined popular vote and 0 electoral vote like 2016 US presidential elections, despite 3rd party candidates combined likely being preferred by 40 % of electorate, as a low bound).

Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner suggested that an «almost presidential museum library» be created to recognize the contributions of Chappaqua's Hillary Clinton and four other presidential candidates who won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.

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).

Considering the fact that NDC communicators would go to any length to extol President Mahama for «graciously conceding even in the face of some irregularities they identified with voting», the party is positioning him to be the most popular person in the NDC and he would likely be until the party's next presidential primary in 2018, making it difficult for other presidential hopefuls in the party to overtake him.

Hillary Clinton says Trump is «a little obsessed with me,» and unable to stop reliving the 2016 presidential election because she beat him in the popular vote.

How to find out the minimum popular vote percentage a successful US presidential candidate can have?

When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

«At the federal level, presidential candidate Ross Perot remains the self - financing record holder, having poured more than $ 63.5 million of his own cash into a bid that earned him about 20 percent of the national popular vote, zero electoral votes and a third - place finish behind Democrat Bill Clinton and incumbent Republican President George H.W. Bush.»

After Hillary Clinton agreed to partake in a election audits with Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, Trump ripped the two women and claimed that his popular vote loss was due only to «millions of people» casting ballots illegally.

Assemblyman Benedetto: Presidential elections should be determined by the national popular vote

Rep. Chris Collins said Thursday that he believes Donald Trump will still pull off a narrow victory over Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential race, not by the popular vote but by the mechanics of the Electoral College.

In five of the last 45 US presidential elections, plurality voting has handed the White House to the second most popular candidate, according to William Poundstone, author of Gaming the Vote: Why elections aren't fair.

Mixed in with the text, which discusses in logical order the different facets of presidential elections, are numerous sidebars describing such diverse topics as presidents who won the popular vote but lost the election, third - party candidates, the order of succession in the event that something happens to the president, first ladies, and vice presidents who went on to become presidents.

Included: Electoral and Popular Vote Tally work sheets, a Candidate Position graphic organizer, a Campaign Timeline, a Presidential Order of Succession printable, and a rubric for scoring student debates.

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.

Going even more granular, each county in the country held a popular - vote presidential election and Trump won 2,633 * of those county elections, while Clinton only won 487 * counties.

Democrats have done well in recent presidential races, winning the popular vote in six of the past seven elections.