Says he could have won popular vote
A popular vote count for president is better because it ensures that the loser canâ€â˘t win. But under our current system that is irrelevant. While it is logical to argue that whoever gets the most votes should win, period, scrapping the Electoral College wouldn’t make for a better election system.
True, Wyoming has only one U.S. House member and California has 53.
The Washington Post notes today that in the past 200 years there have been 700 attempts to amend the constitution to change the electoral college.
The easy answer: Yes, he did. At the district convention, delegates to the national convention, as well as other positions, including presidential elector, were selected by the delegates.
Making her first public appearance since losing the USA presidential election a week ago, Hillary Clinton admitted that she is still feeling the sting of her election defeat.
With the final election results still trickling in, Clinton remains ahead of Trump in the popular vote by more than one million.
She is on pace to win the popular vote. She would need 38 more votes to reach 270. He pointed us to a statement made by Gingrich on Sunday’s “Face The Nation”. “I am certainly going to vote for Donald Trump”, Whitmer said.
Jim Whitmer, of Waterloo, will cast one of Iowa’s six electoral votes for Donald Trump. “We don’t compete in California”.
The speech is an “opportunity to underscore Hillary’s continuing commitment to the causes and values that have always motivated her work as an advocate and public servant”, the aide said.
“So it gets worse every year”, he said. It was the highest evangelical turnout since 2004 and it was a 3 percent increase from those who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012.
The event honored Clinton for her contributions to the organization, for which she first worked as a young lawyer in the 1970s before later serving as chair of the board of directors.
If the name of the game were to win the popular vote, both parties would have campaigned much more in big states like New York, Texas, and California.
Then again, there’s another factor determining the real “weight” of votes from different states.
Ultimately, an amendment may be unlikely, at least in the near future.
Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, is one among many Democrats calling for an end to the Electoral College.
But the Electoral College persists because it is part of our constitutional history even though it serves now as only an outmoded, unnecessary vestige of our history.
These are all good reasons to want the system to change so the president is elected based on the popular vote.
There has been an ongoing debate in the United States whether or not he Electoral College should be abolished and the president be elected through popular votes. Who knows what the popular vote would have been in that case?
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