Popular votes have rarely gone its way in recent years.
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Democrats won a majority of popular votes in Senate elections.
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The Democrats are now crying that Hillary had more popular votes.
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"In 2008, Barack Obama beat John McCain by 253 Electoral College votes and 8.54 million popular votes," al-Gharbi writes: In 2012, he beat Mitt Romney by just 126 electoral votes and 3.48 million popular votes.
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But it did not receive enough popular votes to win the contest.
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Change should come through popular votes and the laws enacted by elected legislators.
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Or must they vote for the candidate who won their states' popular votes?
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Hillary Clinton received nearly 2202 million popular votes to Donald Trump's 2628 million.
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Under our Constitution, the person with the most electoral (not popular) votes wins.
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The popular votes then funnel to committed Electoral College electors like Ms. Ingram.
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This can lead to some stark distortions between popular votes and electoral votes.
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She beat Sanders by more than 3.5 million popular votes in the Democratic primaries.
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The apportionment is based on the number of popular votes each candidate has received.
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In practice, though, the total number of popular votes doesn't determine which party controls Congress.
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Obama's nearly 220006 million popular votes in 2202 still is a record for any presidential candidate.
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He has claimed victory in popular votes -- sometimes highly controversially -- in 210, 21996, 22001, 22005, and 22016.
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Four plebiscites, or popular votes, have been held to decide the commonwealth's status in relation to America.
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Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), are open to the idea of replacing the Electoral College with popular votes.
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Nearly always, the electors vote for the candidate who won the most popular votes in their state.
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Samuel Tilden, the Democratic presidential candidate, won 250,000 more popular votes than Rutherford Hayes, his Republican rival.
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Americans were frustrated when the Electoral College chose four presidents who did not receive the most popular votes.
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That is also why Trump has 85033 total electoral votes, because he won 49 states' popular votes. Sen.
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Clinton won almost three million more popular votes than Mr. Trump while simultaneously losing in the Electoral College.
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Under the compact, the winner would be the candidate who receives the most popular votes from on election day.
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That piece wasn't shy in its comparisons, either, nothing that both Mussolini and Hitler came to power through popular votes.
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Through Monday, she's won over 54 percent of the pledged delegates and over 55 percent of the popular votes cast.
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This occurred most recently in 2016, when their candidate lost by nearly three million popular votes yet won the presidency.
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Sanders's narrow victory in Indiana on Tuesday night won't significantly close the gap in Clinton's huge lead in popular votes and delegates.
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They argue that Democrats fail to win seats in proportion to their popular votes because Democratic voters are clustered in urban districts.
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This cohort of minority presidents includes the current one, whose rival in 2016 received almost three million more popular votes than he did.
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Clinton received more popular votes in the 2008 presidential primary than any candidate -- male or female -- had ever won since such contests began.
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Except for the votes in MI and PA which he sued to block, or the three million popular votes that he lost by.
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Why it matters: The ruling shows that popular votes for Medicaid expansion matter — and that Republican governors can't just choose to ignore them.
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The only argument that has the right shape would have to explain why popular votes make sense for governors but not for presidents.
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While it may not affect the outcome of the election, one faithless vote discounts hundreds of thousands of popular votes cast for a candidate.
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Overall, 59% of registered voters correctly identified Clinton getting more popular votes, and 72% of registered voters correctly identified Trump winning the electoral college.
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Wallace won nearly 10 million popular votes (about 13 percent of the total) and 45 electoral votes, carrying Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana.
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Republicans lost six of the last seven popular votes in presidential contests, but they won the Electoral College in two of those six instances.
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There have been five US elections in which the winner did not get the most popular votes, including two of the last five elections.
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But it is significant that the candidate running as a defender of Mr. Obama's legacy, Hillary Clinton, won over a million more popular votes.
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While the returns suggest that the clear majority of the electoral votes are for Trump, he seemingly failed to garner the most popular votes.
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There was no interaction with Trump during the ceremony, and Trump did not mention Clinton — who won 3 million more popular votes — during his speech.
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In fact at this point Hillary Clinton has a virtually insurmountable lead of 3 million popular votes out of a total of 23 million cast.
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It's in contrast to the American Electoral College system that allowed a candidate who didn't have a majority of the popular votes into the White House.
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There is simply no way to translate over 100 million popular votes into 538 electoral votes without some degree of rounding off to the nearest elector.
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Letter From Washington New Hampshire is in the bottom quarter of states in terms of its electoral and popular votes in the United States presidential race.
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Grimsson has exerted his right to demand popular votes on key issues, introducing political power to an office that had traditionally been seen as largely ceremonial.
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In general, the candidate who wins the most popular votes in each state gets all that state's electors, though a handful of states use different rules.
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Although most states have winner-takes-all policies for their Electoral College votes, Maine and Nebraska split their electors proportionally based on the states' popular votes.
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The decisions in Colorado are the latest rulings on attempts to curb the hotly contested oil and gas extraction process known as fracking through popular votes.
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Tilden received the most popular votes, but the House of Representatives eventually picked Hayes as the president after disputed elections occurred in Florida, South Carolina, and Oregon.
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Situations like this could test the compact, as could an election with multiple candidates where the person with the most popular votes was still far short of 50%.
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But if popular votes were what mattered in US politics, two of the last three Presidents, both Donald Trump and George W. Bush, would not have been elected.
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It's because of that system that two of the last three US Presidents -- George W. Bush and Donald Trump -- were elected with fewer popular votes than their opponent.
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Instead there is the soliciting of popular votes, complete with a fraudulent display of religious piety, the slandering of opponents and a grossly exaggerated threat to national security.
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Lawmakers used to sweeten an administration's defense spending request with additional funding for pet programs in their districts, as well as politically popular votes to increase military pay.
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"It would have restored some of the lost moral authority by her winning against credible opponents through popular votes," said opposition politician Yee Jenn Jong in a blog post.
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Ultimately, the House, with each state casting one vote, chose Adams to be president, even though he had earned fewer popular votes and fewer electoral college votes than Jackson.
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Such popular votes are invariably used to justify a new round of repressive measures, since the ruler can now claim he's acting according to the will of the people.
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Basically, they each give two electoral votes to the popular votes of their states and then one electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district in their states.
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Appealing to the rural population with promises to rid the government of elitism, Jackson ran against Adams again in 1828 and won the presidency by both electoral and popular votes.
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The situation we've brought you all week hasn't changed, Buttigieg remains the leader in state delegate equivalents (the traditional measure of victory) and Sanders still has the most popular votes.
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The outcome is the latest in a series of popular votes for liberalising change in Ireland, which have ushered in same-sex marriage and lifted a virtual ban on abortion.
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Steinmeier said political parties in some EU member states would likely push for similar popular votes, but he knew of no specific country that was seriously considering leaving the bloc.
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National polls, we should be reminded, measure popular votes and reveal broad trends, but don't tell us much about state electoral votes — the building blocks of a winning presidential campaign.
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In a political contest where the candidates were so different and each received a similar number of popular votes, it's inevitable that the aftermath leaves many of you with strong feelings.
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The assumption was that a rival campaign's superior ground game would easily defeat Trump on the convention floor once many delegates were no longer bound by popular votes in their states.
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Quite the contrary, under the bill, all Connecticut voters will be counted in determining which presidential candidate received the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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The president-elect will be the candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states and D.C. Connecticut's seven electoral votes will be cast for the national popular vote winner.
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They chanted "Temer out!" and carried signs denouncing the interim president as a corrupt, disloyal replacement for Rousseff, a president elected less than two years ago with 54 million popular votes.
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This effect is often cited as a benefit of the institution because it helps confer legitimacy to presidents selected in close popular votes but who attain relatively large Electoral College victories.
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Bernie Sanders is the definitive fron-runner at this point, after winning the highest number of popular votes in Iowa and New Hampshire and leading the polls nationally and in Nevada.
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The National Popular Vote interstate compact provides a way to guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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Hence, the differences we observe between electoral and popular votes have less to do with obdurate electors and more to do with the ways in which electoral votes are assigned and counted.
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Feinstein is a four full term incumbent, and won reelection in 2012 with 62% of the vote, taking the record for the most popular votes in any US Senate election -- 7.3 million.
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A court in North Carolina ruled unanimously on Tuesday that the state's partisan gerrymander, which kept Republicans in power in the state legislature even as Democrats won popular votes statewide, is illegal.
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On "Meet the Press," Mr. Biden more explicitly went after Mr. Sanders, the winner of the popular votes in Iowa and New Hampshire, citing the cost of his "Medicare for all" proposal.
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Yet in doing that they've still lost six of the last seven popular votes, and, as the data shows, they've now pretty much run out of white evangelicals to add to the mix.
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"Under the compact, Virginia agrees to award its electoral votes to the presidential ticket that receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia," a bill summary states.
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The electoral college has become a hot topic since the 2016 Presidential election, when Donald Trump won the presidency with 304 electoral votes even though Hillary Clinton won 2.87 million more popular votes.
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"The Last Bluff: How Greece came face-to-face with financial catastrophe and the secret plan for its euro exit" largely narrates six months of meetings, speeches, popular votes, meetings and more meetings.
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Imagine what would happen if Sanders won the largest number of primary votes but the superdelegates decide he's too risky and throw their support behind a more moderate alternative who got fewer popular votes.
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The fact is, even if I were to receive the most popular votes and the most electoral votes, victory would be highly unlikely, because most members of Congress would vote for their party's nominee.
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Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, who has been president since 1996, has exerted his right to demand popular votes on key issues, introducing political power to an office that had traditionally been seen as largely ceremonial.
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The pro-military Palang Pracharat party, which has won 97 lower house seats, has also claimed the right to form the next government due to its lead on Pheu Thai in the popular votes.
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Seth Masket worries that state legislatures would pull out of the NPV when their electoral votes have to be given to a candidate who received less than a majority of their state's popular votes.
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Clinton did well in noncompetitive states and "wasted" popular votes that didn't earn her any more electoral votes, while Mr. Trump did just well enough in competitive states to pick up their electoral votes.
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Previous votes Four previous plebiscites, or popular votes, have been held to decide the commonwealth's status in relation to the United States, with a majority of voters for the first time choosing statehood in 21917.
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Clinton defeated Sanders soundly in winning more states, more popular votes, more pledged delegates and more superdelegates — the current and former party officials who get to vote for the nominee at the Democratic National Convention.
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Two more current members of the dominant conservative bloc, while nominated by presidents who did win the popular vote, were confirmed by senators who collectively won fewer popular votes than the senators who voted against them.
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Clinton, who lost the presidential election to Trump despite garnering almost 3 million more popular votes, was Gallup's "most admired woman" for a record 21st time (and 15th in a row), nabbing 20153 percent of the vote.
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As the Electoral College operates now — except in Maine and Nebraska where some electoral votes are allocated by House district — the candidate who wins the plurality of a state's popular votes receives all of its electoral votes.
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For caring about popular votes and crowd sizes more than the American people #ThankYouTrump #ThankYouTrump for gathering together a bunch of old, white, GOP men to sign away women's rights in order to soothe your impotency issues.
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The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact requires a candidate to win the most popular votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia in order to be awarded the 270 electoral votes necessary to become president.
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Trump made it harder by engaging in protracted, distracting arguments over the size of his inaugural crowd, the reason he drew fewer popular votes than Hillary Clinton and the efficacy of torture techniques rejected by both parties in Congress.
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"In a country where popular votes in presidential elections rarely exceed 1-2 percentage points over 50, the survey numbers suggest a strong bipartisan desire to establish at least some level of gun control in the U.S.," he said.
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Normally a political footnote, the electoral vote acquired an unexpected element of drama this winter after Mr. Trump's upset of Hillary Clinton, who received 2.86 million more popular votes but won in states that totaled only 0003 electoral votes.
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In the cruelest of ironies, the candidate who lost by nearly three million popular votes has been elected president of the United States by that very process designed to prevent the election of an unqualified president by misinformed voters.
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In that system, the person who gets the most popular votes, no matter the percentage of the total popular vote, will be elected president because he or she will automatically receive the necessary 270 electoral votes of the participating states.
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In the nonconforming Maine and Nebraska, two electoral votes are apportioned to the winner of the popular vote, and the rest of the votes are given to the winner of the popular votes in each of the states' congressional districts.
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Hillary Clinton was subject to the most well-financed and international campaign of personal destruction, character assassination and defamation in the history of American politics and democratic nations, but she still won nearly 3 million more popular votes than Trump.
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Macron was therefore left to fight a largely solo battle to convince his counterparts that giving Britain an extra year to make up its mind was too risky for EU institutions, and would send the wrong message about respecting popular votes.
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If electoral votes were awarded to candidates in proportion to the popular votes they receive in a state, the victories of the Republican candidates in 19503 and 2016, both of whom lost the national popular vote, probably would have been reversed.
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But Tuesday, Sanders's campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, told MSNBC that if Clinton doesn't clinch the nomination by pledged delegates alone, even if she has won the most popular votes, pledged delegates and states, Sanders will still take his fight to the convention.
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Under the compact, when the Electoral College meets in mid-December, the candidate who received the most popular votes in all 220006 states (and the District of Columbia) would receive all the electoral votes from all the enacting states (and thereby become president).
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The party remains in crisis, but the thought of Ryan emerging from Cleveland as the nominee presupposes that delegates (rough analog to House members) will wrest the nomination from two people (Trump and Ted Cruz) who'll have credible claim to it, backed by popular votes.
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The notion that Trump's victory is somehow delegitimized because of his failure to capture the most popular votes betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how the winner-take-all electoral vote system has a dramatic effect on everything from campaign strategy to voter motivation and turnout.
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Last week, however, the election commission indicated the complex formula to calculate allocation of the 150 "party list" seats will round up decimals to give seats to 11 small parties although their popular votes did not meet a previously described threshhold required to earn even one seat.
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Under this system, states agree in advance to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the most popular votes nationwide, but the reform will not take effect until all of the participating states together have at least 28500 electoral votes, a majority of the nation's total.
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Frank discussions of these subjects on her program led to protests by clergy and conservative leaders, but they also helped propel a secular tide that has since transformed Ireland into one of Europe's most liberal societies, where popular votes have legalized divorce, gay marriage and abortion.
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He continued running, arguing that he could break through in California's primary and argue to superdelegates (who at that time had a say on the first ballot) that he had a stronger general election campaign, even if he was trailing in popular votes and pledged delegates.
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There are reasons Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE defeated Trump by 3 million popular votes in the last election.
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With polls showing a strong preference for nominating the candidate with the most popular votes — even if he fails to secure a majority of delegates before the convention in July — Mr. Cruz has brushed up this week against an uncomfortable reality: His only road to victory is a messy one.
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Accordingly, we would see new pro-life and pro-choice parties, gun control and gun owner parties, immigration and border control parties, and billionaires with the funds to support their own candidacies vying to collect enough popular votes to be elected president with only a small percentage of the popular vote.
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When the state legislatures convene in 85033, they should enact the National Popular Vote compact in order to ensure that we have a 50-state campaign for President in 2020 and that the president is the candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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Both presidencies began with a whiff of illegitimacy hanging over them: Johnson's because he became president when Lincoln was assassinated, Mr. Trump's because he won the Electoral College despite having nearly three million fewer popular votes than his opponent, the largest losing margin of any president who actually won the election.
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She earned nearly the same percentage of popular votes as Al GoreAlbert (Al) Arnold Gore2020 Democrats release joint statement ahead of Trump's New Hampshire rally Deregulated energy markets made Texas a clean energy giant Gun safety is actually a consensus issue MORE in 2000, and slightly less than Richard Nixon in 1960.
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Specifically, there is now a series of coordinated lawsuits filed by plaintiffs in four different states who all contend that the "winner-take-all" system—where nearly every state gives all of its Electoral College votes to the one candidate who wins the most popular votes in the state—violates the constitution.
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A proposed solution that rounds from 60 percent of the vote to 66 percent of the electors is also imperfect in the sense that it is not precisely translating popular votes into electoral votes, but it is much closer to our constitutional ideal of "one person, one vote" than the current system is.
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This commission was birthed from the widespread claim by then President-elect Trump that voter fraud took place during the 2016 election because of the 3 – 5 million popular votes he lost to presidential candidate Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Stories of the previous shortcomings the Electoral College — a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr in 1800; the revelation that 2000 was not the first time that the candidate with the most popular votes was not the winner of the presidential election — were splashed upon the front pages of newspapers and lead stories on television news outlets.
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In 1824, Andrew Jackson -- Donald Trump's favorite president -- had the most popular votes and the most electors, although not a majority of either, but the House gave the White House to John Quincy Adams, who then made speaker of the House Henry Clay his Secretary of State, which Jackson called "a corrupt bargain," according to a House website on close elections.
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Following the 2016 election and Donald Trump's convincing win with a 2023 electoral votes, despite Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's run-up of almost 3 million more popular votes, the criticism has been intense.
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Last week, Trump President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE tweeted in support of the Electoral College, reversing his previous support for popular votes.
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Although political scientists continue to debate whether Perot pulled more votes from Bush or his Democratic challenger, Bill Clinton, Bush was convinced that having another Texas tycoon in the race caused Clinton to come out ahead with only 43% of the popular votes nationwide -- and that he, Bush, would have prevailed if it had been just a two-person race against Clinton.
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Trump has claimed he won a historic landslide, even though Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton defeated him by almost 3 million popular votes, claimed that climate change was a hoax invented by the Chinese, and claimed the Russians were not responsible for attacks against our democracy in the last election, and the large number of regularly repeated false statements by Trump alarms many Republicans as well as Democrats.
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After a bitterly-fought election where the Establishment was criticized and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE won more popular votes, Trump will be awarded the presidency by a system that has worked fairly well for over two centuries.
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Reacting mindlessly to the election of Donald Trump with fewer popular votes than Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE in 2016 has driven the left to sponsor a program that could create catastrophic outcomes for our presidential elections in the future.
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A compelling finalist for the "Trump Big Lie Award" involves his attack on the FBI for being biased in favor of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, who won 3 million more popular votes than Trump did in 85033.
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The Catalan economist and Columbia University professor Xavier Sala-i-Martin rightly pointed out in a 2018 interview that if someone from a Western democracy were to describe his society to visitors from Mars, they would likely be baffled to hear that we govern ourselves by a democratic system of laws and popular votes, yet leave our nations' borders up to the whims of colonial treaties or the results of long-ago wars.
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Susan Davis announces retirement Poll: Trump neck and neck with top 2020 Democrats in Florida Former immigration judge fined, temporarily banned from federal service for promoting Clinton policies MORE won millions more popular votes than Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump conversation with foreign leader part of complaint that led to standoff between intel chief, Congress: report Pelosi: Lewandowski should have been held in contempt 'right then and there' Trump to withdraw FEMA chief nominee: report MORE while Trump won the presidency.
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Trump has claimed he won a historic landslide, even though Democratic nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE defeated him by almost 3 million popular votes, claimed that climate change was a hoax invented by the Chinese, and claimed the Russians were not responsible for attacks against our democracy in the last election, and the large number of regularly repeated false statements by Trump alarms many Republicans as well as Democrats.
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In the U.S., by contrast, progressives spend far too much time pointing out that Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump rallies supporters as he becomes third president to be impeached Saagar Enjeti dismisses new Biden campaign ad as 'Hillary Clinton 2.0' Hillary Clinton says 2020 election will be 'closer than one would like or expect' MORE received more popular votes than Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE.
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Having offered that disclaimer, it is important to consider why most polling today suggests that Biden is the strongest and most electable opponent to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE in the 85033 presidential campaign, nationally and in key states that gave Trump a narrow Electoral College victory after Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE won 3 million more popular votes than he did in 2016.
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