Sentences with phrase «using popular vote»

This also assumes that A. Each state hands out electoral votes using popular vote, and B.

We don't use the popular vote to elect the President, so what's your point and why even bring it up?

Not exact matches

The federal NDP, which picked up three new seats in B.C. in 2011, is using this as a training ground for the 2015 federal vote, both to fine - tune ideas and techniques and to sway popular opinion in the key region.

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.

Stop insulting Arsenal fans, Howe belong were he is now fighting for relegation you want Arsenal fighting for relegation????? Stop this nonsense rarely I find Arsenal fans who want Howe as Wenger replacement and please stop using the word «most popular» if you want to find out the most popular Wenger replacement just write the article about it and we'll vote between Howe, Simeone, Low, and others.

Using status in this way is a pretty common campaigning technique in the UK, though what's become more popular here (at least in the Liberal Democrats) is changing your profile picture to a graphic that says you are backing / have voted for a particular candidate.

That's why we use the college electorate not the popular vote.

It used to be common knowledge that if a president were elected with a minority of the popular vote, the electoral college would be eliminated or reformed.

, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...

If the top candidate method is used to gauge the number of votes for party (i.e. assuming the number of votes in support of a party is equal to the number of votes for its most popular candidate) instead of the raw vote, then the party's vote shares are: Labour 72.3 %, Conservatives 16.2 % and Liberal Democrats 11.4 %.

If Murdo Fraser's new party had been formed at dvolution to appeal to the Christian Democrat voters who used to form a Conservative majority of the popular vote, or if Tommy Sheridan hadn't given up politics to spend more time with prisoners then the SNP wouldn't have had such a pushover.

It meant that although the BNP came fifth in the popular vote in the region, it won a seat through the system of proportional representation used in the European elections.

On occasion, they also use the initiative process to put their own bills on the ballot for a direct popular vote.

Let's not forget that there's one other big corporation out there that used Facebook to help Trump win, and whose CEO was reelected for one more six - year term with what will probably be a considerable percentage of the popular vote.

In a way, this means you can «vote» for a currency by using it and eventually one currency will emerge as the most popular due to its merits.

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