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"popular vote" Definitions
  1. [uncountable, countable] the act of voting by the people in a country or an area who have the right to vote
  2. often the popular vote [countable, usually singular] the choice expressed in an election by the majority of people who vote (but which may not necessarily determine who wins the election, depending on the system used)
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They won the presidential popular vote and the Senate popular vote, and they were just shy of winning the House popular vote.
Popular vote inversions rarely occur when one candidate earns a majority of the popular vote.
The National Popular Vote Compact isn't the only path to get to a popular vote.
Number two, I would've won the popular vote if I was campaigning for the popular vote.
The national popular vote polls weren't too far off, but we don't elect presidents based on the popular vote.
Given that Clinton won the popular vote, it actually looks like the national popular vote projections weren't off by that much.
The National Popular Vote Compact would require its signatory states to cast its electoral votes for the winner of the popular vote.
At FiveThirtyEight, they're talking about an electoral vote/popular vote split -- a weak tendency for a Trump electoral win, Clinton popular-vote win.
Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced a constitutional amendment to elect the president by popular vote, and the National Popular Vote Compact — a state-based attempt to abolish the Electoral College by allocating electoral votes to the popular vote winner — has gained momentum.
Dr. John Koza is the Chairman of National Popular Vote, a California based non-profit dedicated to enacting the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
The measure, HB 20203, would look to incorporate Virginia into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement established by each participating state's laws to put its electoral votes toward the winner of the national popular vote, instead of the state's own popular vote.
While it was the first nation to approve gay marriage by popular vote, it did not hold the world's first popular vote on the issue.
Across these 17 elections, this popular vote share forecasts the Electoral College vote, along an almost perfect prediction line (Electoral Vote = -198 + 21625 Popular Vote).
Trump, however, has seemingly been fixated on the popular vote, mentioning voter fraud in regards to his popular vote loss a number of times since November.
A number of states have signed onto something different, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, by which states would essentially agree to use the popular vote.
Several Democratic-leaning states have entered a National Popular Vote Interstate Compact that seeks to bypass the Electoral College in favor of the national popular vote.
"I would rather have the popular vote, but for me it's much easier to win the popular vote," he said on "Fox and Friends" last April.
One promising end run around this: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, under which a state pledges its electoral votes to the national popular-vote winner.
In the process, voters aren't just casting a popular vote that will be added up with the rest of the popular vote to select the nominee.
That's essentially the idea behind the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, whereby states agree to pledge their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the popular vote nationwide.
Hillary Clinton leads Trump with the popular vote and could be the first candidate since Al Gore to win the popular vote but lose the general election.
The national popular vote is an agreement among participating states that they will give all their electoral votes to the sole winner of the national popular vote.
But given that Republicans have won the Electoral vote twice while losing the popular vote, generating Republican state support for a national popular vote will be difficult.
Eleven other states and Washington, D.C., have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would guarantee that the candidate who wins the popular vote is elected president.
State lawmakers approved a measure that would have added Nevada to the popular vote interstate compact, pledging its six electoral votes to whoever wins the nationwide popular vote.
While it's true that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, everyone understood in advance that the popular vote was meaningless, and structured their campaign strategies with that understanding.
The larger the gap between the median and the average statewide popular vote, the harder it is to win a majority of seats despite winning the popular vote.
He added he thinks they are ignoring potential problems like the legality and the public's reaction in states where the popular vote differs from the national popular vote.
The Nevada Senate passed AB 186 by 12-8 on Tuesday, which would include the state in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and allocate its electors to the national popular-vote winner -- as opposed to the winner of the popular vote in the state -- in the next presidential election.
Let's not forget that if you had a popular vote that was announced at 11 pm on election night — [Hillary] Clinton won the popular vote by 2.9 million votes.
And saying that Trump is already the real popular-vote winner flatly goes against saying he would have been the popular-vote winner if that had been his goal.
After Trump won the election — but lost the popular vote — he tweeted that he would've won the popular vote if the "millions of people who voted illegally" weren't counted.
A look at all generic ballots compared to the House popular vote results since 1942 suggests Democrats will probably win the House popular vote by around 8 percentage points.
"The chief election official of each member state shall designate the presidential slate with the largest national popular vote total as the 'national popular vote winner,'" the bill continues.
The National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV), for example, is a coordinated campaign to get states to pledge their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
Ten states, as well as Washington, D.C., have joined the National Popular Vote Compact, pledging to give all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
Johnson received about 1% of the popular vote in 2012, and Bob Barr, the 2008 nominee, received less than 1% of the popular vote, according to the Federal Election Commission.
In the past, Mr. Trump also backed electing presidents through the popular vote, but he has changed positions after losing the popular vote and winning the Electoral College in 2016.
National Popular Vote simply asks the legislative bodies in each of the states if it's in their best interest to award their electors on the basis of the popular vote.
Though he trails Sanders in the popular vote in Iowa, Buttigieg said he'd like to get rid of the Electoral College and ensure the president is elected by a popular vote.
The electoral system would still be used, but the electors would be distributed based on the national popular vote instead of the state's popular vote in the winner-take-all method.
State legislatures from coast-to-coast have passed bills to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) which is aimed to ensure the popular vote victor wins the Electoral College.
The White House was also bitterly contested, with two popular vote losers winning and all of the presidential elections seeing candidates within 3 points of the popular vote of each other.
The man who prides himself on winning lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly three million votes, the biggest popular vote loss by a winning candidate in American history.
Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2.8 million votes — more than Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000, John F. Kennedy in 1960, and Richard Nixon in 1968.
" — STEPHEN COLBERT "I'm surprised Bread won the popular vote.
" Fernanda Santos _____ Notable Chants: "We are the popular vote!
Trump's place in history Heightening the tension in recent weeks: Clinton actually won the popular vote by about 3 million -- making Trump the worst-performing winner in the popular vote since 1876.
A quicker and more realistic fix is the National Popular Vote interstate compact, under which states agree to award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
They could award their electors in proportion to the statewide popular vote, or to the winner of the national popular vote, as some states have sought to do through an interstate compact.
And a two-round popular vote is better than a single-round plurality popular vote, because by requiring the winner to earn a true majority, it avoids the problem of extreme minority candidates.
Before Gore, the last time a presidential candidate won the popular vote but lost the election was in 1888, when Democrat Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost to Republican Benjamin Harrison.
Nothing should be named by popular vote — not a boat, not a whale, not a Mountain Dew flavor — but more than anything, a gorilla should not be named by popular vote in 2016.
For the 34 political conventions, there is a 1.2 point average gain for the party holding their convention in a state that the popular vote compared to popular vote in the previous election.
Finally perhaps evidence of a favorite son or daughter impact needs to be examined in terms of a change in popular vote in a state relative to changes in the national popular vote.
The electoral system would still be used, they argue, but the electors would be distributed based on the national popular vote instead of the state's popular vote in the winner-take-all method.
The contrast is particularly striking because in Britain, the Right really did lose the popular vote while in the U.S., right-wing candidates won a small but clear popular vote majority in 2016.
And she's won 2.8 million more in the popular vote.
And So Tomorrow, We FightHillary Clinton won the popular vote.
Remember that he lost the popular vote by 3 million.
Trump won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote.
Although meaningless to the outcome, Trump lost the popular vote.
The Conservatives won the largest share of the popular vote.
It seems likely Trump will have lost the popular vote.
For the Democrats winning the popular vote is not enough.
Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote continues to grow.
In terms of the popular vote, their achievement is remarkable.
When he lost the popular vote, he blamed voter fraud.
Indeed, Newt Gingrich has endorsed the National Popular Vote Compact.
Chin up, La La Land... you won the popular vote.
Gore won the popular vote, but not the Electoral College.
Let's say it together: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
And need we remind you who won the popular vote?
Remember: We won the popular vote by an enormous margin.
Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots.
Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
Saul Anuzis is a senior consultant to National Popular Vote.
It lost the popular vote in the 2013 general election.
Most national polls accurately showed Clinton winning the popular vote.
She won the popular vote by about 2.9 million votes.
The right thing to do is establish a Popular Vote.
Clinton would still win the popular vote by 1.1 million.
He lost the popular vote by about 3 million votes.
Donald Trump won the tallied popular vote across 49 states.
To put it another way, he won the popular vote.
Clinton's by 3 million, more than her popular vote margin.
The popular vote, not electoral votes, should choose a president.
Clinton's overall lead in the popular vote stands at 2,544,817.
He won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote.
A popular vote system certainly would be simpler to understand.
He is ahead in delegates and in the popular vote.
They won the national popular vote and kept House control.
In each of those elections, Democrats won the popular vote.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by three million votes.
Big enough to enable him to win the popular vote?
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million votes.
He got 46 percent of the popular vote last November.
And not just the popular vote -- but the electoral college.
In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.
The popular vote, for me, would have been much easier.
Ray Haynes is the senior consultant to National Popular Vote.
Clinton won the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.
Clinton beat him by two points in the popular vote.
Its president lost the popular vote by three million votes.
Hayes did get into office without winning the popular vote.
How many electoral votes would that popular vote margin yield?
Big cities could never dominate under a national popular vote.
Some people claim that a national popular vote advantages Democrats.
Trump lost the popular vote in November by 2.8 million.
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John Quincy Adams also lost the popular vote in 1824.
Don't forget, Trump did not win the popular vote, right?
Trump is so unnerved by Clinton's popular vote win that, like Kristen Wiig's one-upping character Penelope on "Saturday Night Live," he's claiming that his popular vote win would have been even more popular.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact — a plan in which states agree to award all their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner — could circumvent the Electoral College if enough states enacted it.
George Wallace, who got 13 percent of the popular vote in 1968, winning 45 electoral votes; and billionaire businessman Ross Perot, who got 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992 but no electoral votes.
"It is important to understand that the National Popular Vote bill significantly amplifies Colorado's voice in choosing the president of the United States," John Koza, chairman of National Popular Vote, said in a press release.
The legislation, approved by the state's Senate last week, would add Nevada to the National Popular Vote interstate compact and pledge the state's six Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
To the Editor: You are right that adopting the National Popular Vote compact — where every state gives its electoral votes to whoever wins the nation's popular vote — would be a huge step toward fairer democracy.
Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), which has been passed by 220006 states and Washington, D.C., individual states would award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
In fact, by some analyses, Trump could lose the popular vote by as many as 5 million votes, a margin twice the size of his popular-vote loss in 2016, and still win in 2020.
Clinton's big win in California was, on paper, potentially enough to be "responsible" for the electoral-popular vote split in the same way that the Deep South drove Mr. Cleveland's popular vote win in 21888.
The winner of the popular vote, MY president: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
He lost to John Quincy Adams but won the popular vote.
Meanwhile, Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
Denver, Colorado, was the first, after a popular vote last month.
Trump appears deeply uncomfortable with his loss of the popular vote.
The governor is elected by popular vote with no term limits.
The popular vote is one path, one that I would support.
Pugh assumed office in 2016, winning 57% of the popular vote.
Trump lost the popular vote by close to three million votes.
Mrs May might even win a popular vote for her deal.
Hillary Clinton seems to have won the popular vote, after all.
He won the Electoral College, but he lost the popular vote.
Can you lose the popular vote and still be elected president?
The popular vote was closer still: 20123 percent to 48 percent.
Parties tended to choose candidates at conventions, not by popular vote.
"Because, as we know, she won the popular vote," she added.
Which, she did -- winning the popular vote by almost 3 million.
He lost the popular vote to Clinton by about 2.9 million.
The same is true for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
The popular-vote loser in the White House has changed that.
You can't win the Electoral College but lose the popular vote.
First, let's specify why the Electoral College distorts the popular vote.
The popular vote/jury vote system was not introduced this year.
She won the popular vote, however, by nearly 3 million votes.
She won the popular vote, however, by nearly 3 million ballots.
As a result, Republicans have lost the popular vote in six
He lost the popular vote and most Americans view him unfavorably.
Nationwide, Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 22019 million votes.
This is being done under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
He also lost the popular vote by more than 2.7 million.
We pick presidents via the electoral college not the popular vote.
She does think she won the popular vote by three million.
Those agreements were put to a popular vote, an election, no?
Clinton leading Mr. Trump in the popular vote by 1,754,204 votes.
Voters there comprised 7% of the national popular vote in 2016.
In 1968 only 203 states selected their delegates by popular vote.
But does anyone really think popular vote losers make better presidents?
Barely 46 percent of the popular vote put Trump in office.
Donald Trump lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College.
The electoral college system once again crowded out the popular vote.
Each candidate will get a proportional share of their popular vote.
You have to vote for president because the popular vote counts.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost three million votes.
Most surveys in 2016 actually got the popular vote spot on.
His boss didn't even get a majority of the popular vote.
He turned his sizable popular vote deficit into 304 electoral votes.
Bush prevailed, but like Trump, he didn't win the popular vote.
They argue a national popular vote system would be more equitable.
Clinton won the popular vote with illegal ballots, Mr. Ryan demurred.
Of course, in many states, that control reflects the popular vote.
She won the popular vote but he won the White House.
I assumed their arguments against a national popular vote were valid.
"The government and parliament are expressing the popular vote," Isarescu said.
But Clinton won the popular vote, garnering 48.5% to Trump's 46.4%.
However, Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
"Once again the popular vote didn't matter," Embiid wrote on Twitter.
Clinton, after all, won the popular vote by almost three million.
Clinton's lead in the popular vote surpassed two million last week.
In Colorado, for example, delegates were picked without a popular vote.
Do you agree that a popular vote would encourage greater turnout?
As laid out by a nonprofit advocating for a national popular vote, candidates would still have to campaign in a broad array of places if they wanted to secure a majority in a popular vote system.
"Days after the 2016 presidential election, a falsified media account of President-elect Donald Trump having won the popular vote briefly ranked higher than stories that accurately reflected the US popular vote result," the report said.
Once the national popular vote system becomes the new norm among elites and the mass public, the national popular vote winner will have much more legitimacy than the losing candidate among the mass public and elites.
That's the goal of something called the National Popular Vote Pact, a group that wants states to promise to require their electors to cast their ballots in favor of the winner of the national popular vote.
A meaningful comparison between the national popular vote and electoral vote can go back to at least the 28500 presidential election, the first in which all states but one (South Carolina) chose their electors by popular vote.
Wasserman estimates the Democrats need to win the popular vote by 4 points or more to win it in 2020, which is a lot, so Democrats could very well win the popular vote again and still lose.
In an alternate popular vote universe, you'd have had President Al Gore.
Republicans lost the popular vote in the presidential election preceding Scalia's death.
They lost the popular vote in the presidential election after Scalia's death.
Reagan's 1980 "mandate" was just barely over half of the popular vote.
He lost the popular vote to Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.
Nationwide, Clinton holds a popular vote lead of more than 2 million.
Trump lost the popular vote, but won sweeping control over government anyway.
Because, if you'll recall, Donald Trump did not win the popular vote.
Trump has maintained, since November, that fraud cost him the popular vote.
Voters who dislike Trump should not solely focus on the popular vote.
Sanders, however, has stressed that he won the popular vote in Iowa.
Who as Democrats always love to remind us...won the popular vote!
IT WOULD NOT SHOCK ME IF DONALD TRUMP WON THE POPULAR VOTE.
He trails Hillary Clinton in the popular vote by nearly 1 million.
A previous peace deal was rejected by popular vote in early October.
In that cycle, he received only about 8% of the popular vote.
Electoral college: Supports replacing the electoral college with a national popular vote.
It lost the popular vote, earning only 47% to the opposition's 51%.
Hillary Clinton holds a two million vote lead in the popular vote.
What would a race for a national popular vote plurality look like?
The time has come to elect the president through a popular vote.
Clinton did, in fact, win the national popular vote by 2023 points.
"Chin up, La La Land... you won the popular vote," tweeted Morgan.
Secretary Clinton wins this time with 47 percent of the popular vote.
The final tally of the popular vote showed a 3.85 points advantage.
But he lost the popular vote to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Clinton won the popular vote even as she lost the Electoral College.
They elected him twice and gave the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.
In 2012 Republicans won the House despite losing the national popular vote.
Mr. Reagan's popular-vote margin that year: just under 10 percentage points.
AMLO is riding to power on an enormous popular vote for change.
Most were asked to honor the popular vote over the electoral vote.
Carole Radziwill: In the politics of friendship, I win the popular vote.
Together, they drew slightly more than 3 percent of the popular vote.
One major electoral issue making news recently is the National Popular Vote.
First, a candidate must win a majority of the statewide popular vote.
The NYT currently projects a national popular-vote margin of D+226%.
After all, he was defeated soundly in the popular vote in November.
The Electoral College — not the popular vote — determines who wins the presidency.
The former first lady actually won the popular vote by 2.1 percent.
They've lost the popular vote in six of the past seven elections.
He won the 2016 election with just 46% of the popular vote.
Clinton's two million-vote lead in the popular vote has been faked.
So let's see … John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote in 2021.
The former vice president captured only 2.37 percent of the popular vote.
He won neither the popular vote nor the greatest number of constituencies.
May's deal, but only if it were also approved by popular vote.
It was almost tied in the popular vote with the winning party.
Could he again win the electoral college while losing the popular vote?
Ireland legalized same-sex marriage by popular vote, in a 2015 referendum.
Irony alert: Romney ended up with 47 percent of the popular vote.
Sanders, a Vermont independent, maintains his edge in the popular vote count.
"Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by three million votes," he said.
"Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million votes," he said.
But on the other hand, the popular vote is basically a tie.
He lost the popular vote in 1003 by almost 2100 million votes.
In the 2016 election, Trump received 46.1 percent of the popular vote.
That would obviously not be the case in a national popular vote.
In 23 percent of the runs, the president won the popular vote.
Donald Trump won the national popular vote in the 2016 presidential election.
Democrats won the House popular vote by more than eight percentage points.
In essence, should the winner of the popular vote be the nominee?
Bush lost the popular vote but won the electoral college, 271-266.
For starters, he lost the U.S popular vote by millions in 28500.
Overall, pro-government candidates still won some 40% of the popular vote.
National polls had Clinton winning and she did win the popular vote.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2.87 million votes.
"You know I won the popular vote," Pelosi said Trump told her.
Several million votes were cast illegally, costing Trump a popular vote victory.
Under the popular vote, whoever receives the most votes will always win.
The result of the election has led to another popular vote vs.
Of course, she won the popular vote while losing the Electoral College.
Like Trump, he was elected by a minority of the popular vote.
Protests began shortly after Chamisa said he had won the popular vote.
Clinton is increasing her lead in the popular vote by the day.
Do presidential electors have an obligation to ratify their state's popular vote?
Regionalism alone is not why Mr. Trump won without the popular vote.
Pollsters found 47 percent of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote.
The popular vote has been understood to be irrelevant to the outcome.
Yet despite Trump's Electoral College victory, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
Trump now praises Electoral College, says he could have won popular vote "In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the winner of the general election did not win the popular vote," Boxer said in a statement.
Currently, 15 states with 189 electoral votes have passed the National Popular Vote Compact (NPV), under which states set in state law a policy that they will give all their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner.
November 37.73, 2016 on Twitter: "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally"He lost the popular vote by 2,864,903 votes.
And while he won the electoral vote in November, the real estate mogul lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million – the largest margin by which a president has lost the popular vote while still winning the overall election.
The proposal he has put forth, known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, would award the electoral votes of states that sign on to whomever wins the popular vote nationally, regardless of the results in the Electoral College.
On Sunday, Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, said he would sign a bill to join the National Popular Vote interstate compact, whose members have pledged to give their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
Despite the union's endorsement, Mr. Obama lost the popular vote here to Mrs.
Bush, too, lost the popular vote -- but Trump lost by a larger margin.
In 1880, James Garfield won the popular vote by fewer than 2,000 ballots.
But Democrats decisively won the popular vote and gained seats in the Senate.
He said he could have won the popular vote if he campaigned differently.
She won the popular vote by 3 million, but still lost the presidency.
For instance, the popular vote compact does not do away with faithless electors.
Donald Trump can't seem to get over his loss in the popular vote.
It's not enough for a candidate to simply win the statewide popular vote.
In reality, the superdelegates have no choice but to validate the popular vote.
Johnson ran in 2012 as well, receiving about 1% of the popular vote.
Some suggested it highlighted the consequences of putting issues to a popular vote.
The PAP won 70% of the popular vote in the last general election.
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) backed replacing the system with a national popular vote.
He lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.
AND YOU CAN WIN THE POPULAR VOTE (she won by 200,000-plus votes).
Well, they should not vote for the candidate who lost the popular vote.
Even when he is clearly losing the popular vote by 2.3 million votes.
Somalia abandoned its plan to hold a popular vote in 2016 last July.
It was created to circumvent all sorts of issues including the popular vote.
AMLO ultimately garnered 215 percent of the popular vote, winning him the presidency.
Obama coasted to a huge Electoral College and popular vote win over Sen.
While Sanders ultimately lost the popular vote, he did provide a competitive race.
In the general election, she won the popular vote by almost three million.
Mr. Lazarev won the popular vote, but ranked fifth in the jury vote.
Even though Trump did not win the popular vote, he carried 30 states.
Yes, everyone acknowledges that she won and won big in the popular vote.
Clinton also touted Hillary Clinton's nearly 3 million popular vote lead over Trump.
The Democrat ended up winning the popular vote, 28500 percent to 6900 percent.
The vertical axis shows Obama's predicted lead in the two-party popular vote.
It points to Democrats winning the House popular vote by high single digits.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won 48% of the popular vote to Trump's 703%.
Member states pledge their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote.
Proposition C passed last year with nearly 28503 percent of the popular vote.
Claims that voter fraud in the 2016 election cost him the popular vote.
Trump held a 46 percent approval rating — matching his 2016 popular vote percentage.
That will change if the national popular vote plan actually goes into effect.
Donald Trump is a historically unpopular president who badly lost the popular vote.
Democrats' position in the national House popular vote is now reaching historical proportions.
He saluted her for winning the popular vote in the election, drawing cheers.
Mattarella is not elected by popular vote, but by majority agreement in parliament.
Third, presidential elections are determined by state electoral votes, not by popular vote.
They even earned more of the popular vote than the incumbent Liberal party.
Trump doesn't care about the popular vote or what the political establishment thinks.
In the wake of Clinton's popular vote win/Electoral College loss, California Sen.
Hillary Clinton is going to win the popular vote by a sizable margin.
For one, the winner of the nationwide popular vote can lose the presidency.
Clinton also leads the popular vote by three million votes, according to RealClearPolitics.
" CHUCK TODD: "You didn't like the fact that you lost the popular vote.
Clinton pointed to her lead in the popular vote and in pledged delegates.
Ms. Stein, who finished a distant fourth in the popular vote on Nov.
He lost the popular vote to Clinton by more than two million votes.
They would win the House national popular vote, probably by a wide margin.
First, no Democratic president has ever taken office after losing the popular vote.
Trump won the presidency but lost the popular vote by several million votes.
But Republicans won an Electoral College majority even while losing the popular vote.
Democrats did win the popular vote at both the presidential and congressional levels.
Because unlike the presidency, Emmys go to the winner of the popular vote.
National Popular Vote will work only if it is hard to withdraw from.
They were very accurate in predicting that Hillary would win the popular vote.
So candidates could win the county unit vote without winning the popular vote.
If that is the case, then Mr. Sanders would win the popular vote.
And first of all, Clinton won the popular vote by almost 3 million.
"This would never pass a popular vote," he told Popular Science in 2017.
Clinton is leading in the popular vote nationwide by more than 2 million.
National Popular Vote can only work if it is hard to withdraw from.
Clinton's total popular vote was the largest for a losing candidate since 1876.
Bernie Sanders won the state with a 51.9% share of the popular vote.
If you get less than that in popular vote, you get zero delegates.
Only 82 electors in U.S. history have voted against their state's popular vote.
Clinton won the popular vote in the 2008 Democratic primary against then-Sen.
Clinton went on to win the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.
Democrats have won the popular vote in six of the last presidential elections.
Obama was re-elected with a 4-point advantage in the popular vote.
Of all respondents, 29 percent say they believe Trump leads the popular vote.
That's when a new idea began percolating -- the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Should they overwrite these names by popular vote or give them new life?
Isn't it time for the actual popular vote count to determine the outcome?
However, Clinton defeated Trump in the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
A badly damaged Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost three million.
They've been able to circumvent the Democratic popular vote in every election since.
Gore would win the national popular vote by a very similar 1 point.
Why would superdelegates countervail the popular vote and a majority of pledged delegates?
Multi-member districts could make the House more reflective of the popular vote.
Why not rely on a popular vote, as almost every other democracy does?
First-time host Jimmy Fallon opened the three-hour ceremony by calling the awards show "one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote" - a dig at Trump's victory despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.
The Maine Senate voted 19-16 Tuesday to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would give all committed states' electoral votes to the winning popular vote candidate should the group accrue the 270 votes necessary for a majority.
He also claimed his win was "a historic electoral landslide victory in our nation's democracy," though Clinton actually won the popular vote by about 26 million ballots nationwide making Trump the worst-performing winner in the popular vote since 220.
Oregon is the 15th state to join the National Popular State compact, an agreement established by each participating states' laws to put its electoral votes toward the winner of the national popular vote, instead of the state's own popular vote.
Senate Bill 42, also known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, would require the state's electors to the Electoral College to cast a vote for whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote instead of following the state's results.
To confront the majority hostile Electoral College system, the National Popular Vote, which is an interstate compact that is already law in multiple states, provides a path to have the president elected by popular vote without requiring a constitutional amendment.
The push to consider moving to a national popular vote comes as several Democratic states in recent years have entered into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement that would essentially bypass the Electoral College if enough states join.
For reformers, the best hope may lie in the so-called National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement among states to award all of their respective electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote in a given election.
It's likely that the drive for a national popular vote has gained new life because of Donald Trump: He lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes but won the Electoral College because of about 78,000 votes in three states.
Trying to replicate the victory of Mr. Trump — who won the Electoral College vote but lost the popular vote by nearly three million — could prove a bad bet for Europe's far-right candidates, whose elections are based on the popular vote.
Clinton, however, will likely win the popular vote by more than 2 million ballots.
The last Republican to win the popular vote was George W. Bush in 2004.
He won reelection with 520 electoral votes and 20153 percent of the popular vote.
The 24 referendum was the first time the popular vote swung in statehood's favor.
Through it all, they've been tangled in a virtual tie for the popular vote.
Through it all, they've been virtually deadlocked in a tie for the popular vote.
Democrats won the popular vote for the House of Representatives by a comfortable margin.
Nearly every state awards all its votes to the winner of the popular vote.
And with that, despite losing the popular vote, entered the White House. Anti-democratic?
With counting still going on, Mrs Clinton was narrowly ahead in the popular vote.
All of the Democrats fared well in a popular vote hypothetical matchup against Trump.
Earlier this year, Irish voters overwhelmingly opted to legislate for abortion by popular vote.
"Unlike the President, Emmys go to the winner of the popular vote," Colbert joked.
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Bank on an electoral college/popular vote split as he did in 222. 22018.
She is also beating him in the popular vote by some three million votes.
Clinton is currently leading Trump by more than 2 million in the popular vote.
Like 'I would have won the popular vote,' for example ... that's just not good.
Both seem bitter about the election result and fixated on Hillary's popular-vote win.
Obama ended up winning the popular vote as well when all votes were tallied.
Everyone in a position to know -- except Trump -- says Clinton won the popular vote.
The 2012 referendum was the first time the popular vote swung in statehood's favor.
They lost the popular vote, yes, but they still hold the levers of power.
That makes four of the previous seven elections won with smaller popular vote percentages.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by more than 3 million votes.
They received 0.99 percent and 0.36 percent of the popular vote on Election Day.
Trump's Democratic presidential rival in 2016, Hillary Clinton, in fact won the popular vote.
Plus, let's not forget that Clinton won the popular vote by almost 3 million.
They have lost the popular vote in five of the last six national elections.
She ended up outpacing Trump by about 2 points in the national popular vote.
Even before then, the signs pointed to her edge in the national popular vote.
As the votes have trickled in, the popular vote has tilted toward Mrs. Clinton.
The Democrats also lost the White House despite winning the popular vote in 2000.
He is only the fifth U.S. President who failed to win the popular vote.
States award electors based on the outcome of the popular vote in the state.
That said, newly elected Clinton was broadly popular despite his weak popular vote total.
One goes on to the presidency, sometimes without even having won the popular vote.
But Trump spent a lot of airtime on crowd sizes and the popular vote.
Had he strategized around the popular vote, he would have won it, he said.
The genius is that the popular vote is a much different form of campaigning.
According to FiveThirtyEight's estimate, Clinton currently has about a 3.4 percent popular vote lead.
Hillary Clinton looks likely to win the popular vote, albeit by a slim margin.
The Republicans will almost certainly lose the nationwide popular vote in the House elections.
Prayuth's pro-military party came second in the election though won the popular vote.
His overflow rallies confirm it, and his share of the popular vote validates it.
In 1990, in another popular vote, Ireland approved same-sex marriage by a landslide.
Winning the electoral vote but losing the popular vote can complicate claims to legitimacy.
Fortunately, the solution doesn't require a revolt, just the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Much easier to get the popular vote, but it's a very much different campaign.
Republicans have lost the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections.
In 85033, 154 Republican legislators and 162 Democrat legislators sponsored National Popular Vote legislation.
So, is there a metric other than the popular vote that deserves electoral respect?
Most Americans, according to polls, think the president should be selected by popular vote.
The final generic ballot numbers typically perform well in approximating the House popular vote.
Senator Bernie Sanders has a narrow lead in the equivalent of the popular vote.
Over the last century, third parties have averaged 22019 percent of the popular vote.
In an exceedingly tight race, slavery won 50.6 per cent of the popular vote.
The Electoral College means they need not be concerned with winning the popular vote.
He was a legacy-admission president who had lost the popular vote in 2000.
And of course Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote, by no small margin.
Or better, select our president by will of the people and the popular vote.
Clinton won the popular vote, which as a nation of strivers isn't too surprising.
But Clinton won the popular vote, garnering 48.5% of the vote to Trump's 46.4%.
Under the popular vote, they would enjoy an equal say in choosing their president.
Larry thinks you should drop that detail and let him win the popular vote.
Her popular vote weakened the Trump mandate, but it still lost her the election.
Palang Pracharat won the popular vote with 8.4 million ballots, the Election Commission said.
Trump lost the popular vote in the presidential election — and by a wide margin.
And we all know who won the presidential election by popular vote: Hillary Clinton.
The winner in the popular vote will usually match the winner in the states.
This is true even if he or she received far short of a majority of the popular vote, as was the case with Richard Nixon in 1968 and Bill Clinton in 513, each of whom received only 43 percent of the popular vote.
The push to move away from the Electoral College has gained increased traction since Trump's election, with several Democratic-leaning states entering a National Popular Vote Interstate Compact that calls for bypassing the Electoral College in favor of the national popular vote.
This was part of Clinton's broader effort to clearly win the popular vote because the campaign feared that if she won the Electoral College but not the popular vote, Trump would use that to claim the election was unfair or rigged against him.
Fascinatingly, Gallup found very little variation in support for a popular vote between Democrats, Republicans, and independents in 2013; back in 2000 and 2001, in the wake of Al Gore's popular vote win and Electoral College loss, the breakdown was more partisan.
Mayor Pete, whose platform includes a proposal to eliminate the Electoral College and replace it with a nationwide popular vote, stood onstage, stared down on the American people and argued that the Democratic nominee should not necessarily be chosen by a popular vote.
Clinton's supporters have gone so far as to suggest that the popular vote tally should delegitimize Mr. Trump's victory, and the popular-vote margin in Tuesday's election was in fact narrower than the one that separated Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore in 2000.
The current FiveThirtyEight national polls popular vote gap between the candidates is 3.7 percentage points.
Some might say they're being sore losers, while others point out the popular vote totals.
In fact, no candidate since Richard Nixon has won 60 percent of the popular vote.
Donald Trump won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million.
Most states give all their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins that state's popular vote.
He carried the popular vote by only narrow margins in both New Hampshire and Iowa.
Mr Trump won the electoral college but lost the popular vote by nearly 3m votes.
He narrowly won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote by nearly three million.
"The government is despising the popular vote," Mesa told local television channel Unitel on Friday.
All else equal, a popular vote is better than the Electoral College (for obvious reasons).
Remember that Clinton won the popular vote against Trump by more than 2.8 million votes.
RealClearPolitics, a polling aggregator, had Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote by three percentage points.
Gore ultimately won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College and thus the presidency.
By the numbers: In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
"Americans expect and deserve the winner of the popular vote to win office," he said.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the national popular vote by a healthy 2 percentage points.
Massachusetts became the first state in the country to uphold trans rights by popular vote.
Cleveland would win a narrow popular vote but cruise to victory in the Electoral College.
JFK ended up winning that race, in the closest popular vote result in American history.
Since 1956, no presidential candidate has won the national popular vote without winning this county.
The election was the last in which the president will be selected by popular vote.
RTs are not endorsements, but they do technically count as part of the popular vote.
She also indirectly noted her popular vote victory, which Trump has insisted was not legitimate.
He lost to Hillary Clinton by every metric: popular vote, number of states, pledged delegates.
Trump also wrote he would have won the popular vote, excluding "millions" of illegal votes.
For a politician who frames himself a populist, losing the popular vote is especially embarrassing.
Of course, the national popular vote is irrelevant in terms of who wins presidential elections.
On one run, Rubio won the popular vote, but Clinton walked away with the presidency.
As we have already established Clinton will win the popular vote, by a slim margin.
He did so with popular-vote margins nationwide of 6900 million and 2628 million, respectively.
However, in the popular vote nationally, Clinton received 2.86 million more votes than Republican Trump.
So the question is, how far below 40 percent is Trump in the popular vote?
What if one of them wins the popular vote and the other the Electoral College?
In Switzerland there are calls for a popular vote on a ban on the burqa.
Johnson's popular vote, 61%, was the biggest in American history, bigger than FDR in 1936.
Campaigning to win the Electoral College is much more difficult & sophisticated than the popular vote.
Trump won the Electoral College despite Clinton's popular vote edge of nearly 3 million votes.
The European Parliament, elected by popular vote since 1979, was meant to fill this gap.
In the 1950s, Dwight Eisenhower twice reached 55 percent or more of the popular vote.
Mrs Clinton has enjoyed an advantage of about five percentage points in the popular vote.
The 17th Amendment changed this to provide for Senators being elected by the popular vote.
"Reagan won every Texas delegate and the popular vote two to one," Miller told me.
RCV also means that there are two different tracks for calculating the overall popular vote.
The former secretary of State won the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots cast.
As with the Electoral College, the popular vote in Mississippi only matters until it doesn't.
Ross Perot came the closest in 1992, garnering about 19 percent of the popular vote.
Current polling averages suggest a four-point victory in the national popular vote for Mrs.
But they were by definition a blue wave, a massive popular vote against the president.
They could have cited things like popular vote totals or his reliance on caucus victories.
And Grover Cleveland lost the 1888 election to Benjamin Harrison despite winning the popular vote.
Hillary Clinton definitely won the popular vote, and that lead is only going to grow.
But he did get almost 19 percent of the popular vote his first time out.
I've always said the popular vote would be a lot easier than the electoral college.
Hillary Clinton's edge in the popular vote obviously didn't translate into an Electoral College majority.
Republicans have repeatedly claimed voter fraud led Trump to lose the popular vote in 2016.
Republicans have lost the popular vote in six out of the past seven presidential elections.
Clinton's edge with superdelegates, party leaders not bound to the popular vote in their states.
Clinton's margin in the national popular vote and sustain her chances in the Electoral College.
Clinton is even within four or five points in the popular vote between 9 p.m.
In 2015, Ireland became the first nation to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote.
The respective state popular vote has, since the 19th century, dictated the award of electors.
She's the woman who won the popular vote or the reason we have Donald Trump.
I've always said the popular vote would be a lot easier than the Electoral College.
Right now, the White House is controlled by the candidate who lost the popular vote.
He also has another excuse for losing the popular vote: He wasn't campaigning for it.
That's why Democrats won a historically spectacular majority of the popular vote in the midterms.
He's been running on this theme since he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.
When margins between candidates are large, the Electoral College aligns with the national popular vote.
Unlike the presidency, he said, Emmy Awards went to the winner of the popular vote.
To make National Popular Vote enforceable, states need to put the pact into their constitutions.
But the details of the interstate National Popular Vote compact as currently written are suboptimal.
Do you think you would have won if this was put to a popular vote?
It is rare when the popular vote and the electoral vote align with one another.
Most of the time, these distortions magnify the popular vote margin in the Electoral College.
If Sanders beats Biden, it will be the Vermont senator's fourth straight popular vote victory.
Trump is president, of course, despite losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million people.
He led the Iowa popular vote while apparently losing the delegate count by a fingernail.
That year, Mr. Shumlin barely won the popular vote against an anti-single-payer Republican.
Most available evidence points in the direction of a popular vote and Electoral College victory.
Almost all of the current polling data shows Mr. Sanders winning the national popular vote.
That is far from a dominant advantage and suggests Trump could win the popular vote.
The latter occurs when a president wins the electoral vote and loses the popular vote.
Ireland became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote in 2015.
National Popular Vote makes an end run around the difficult process of amending the Constitution.
The live interview polls also came closer to the mark in the national popular vote.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton beat Trump in the national popular vote by 2.1 percentage points.
If Sanders bests Biden, it will be the Vermont senator's fourth straight popular vote victory.
We are the reason you lost the national popular vote by such a historic margin.
An Electoral College map that all but ensures winning the popular vote won't be enough.
Only 22019 electors in history have voted against their state's popular vote for personal reasons.
In 2012, the state was the sixth closest popular-vote state in the presidential contest.
Carville noted that in each election in which she's competed, she won the popular vote.
Another fun fact: Pollsters found 47 percent of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote.
Clinton won the popular vote by about 2.9 million votes, despite losing the Electoral College.
Yet, he only lost the popular vote by 20203 points and won the electoral college.
They harped on the fact that he won only 43 percent of the popular vote.
Mr. Trump falsely asserted on Twitter that he would have won the popular vote — Mrs.
It is misguided, however, to recommend electing the president by popular vote as a remedy.
In any event, National Popular Vote is a uniquely American idea whose time has come.
The popular vote would be much easier to win if you were campaigning on it.
The Brexit vote was a popular vote across the UK's government regions and Northern Ireland.
Clinton will almost certainly carry the popular vote — perhaps by more than one percentage point.
Traditionally in caucus states, people pay more attention to delegates than to the popular vote.
Sanders continues to lead in the popular vote count, garnering 45,831 votes to Buttigieg's 43,273.
Back in 2016, their final poll had Trump losing the popular vote by 4 points.
The strategy so far most likely to succeed is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which several states with control of at least 270 electoral votes would commit to voting for the popular vote winner, regardless of the result in their own states.
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally According to final election results from all 50 states, Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes.
Gallup polling going back to 2000 shows overwhelming support for getting rid of the Electoral College to adopt the popular vote, with especially strong support after Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000 and President Bush won the Electoral College and the White House.
And, under "The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact," the member states all agree that they will give all of their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote when there are states with 2900 or more electoral votes who have joined the compact.
Republicans won the popular vote for the House of Representatives fair and square in 2016, but election analysts argue that Democrats will likely need to win the House popular vote this year by anything from 6 to 43 points in order to gain a majority.
Tur had asked Kobach to address arguments that the commission was set up simply to verify Trump's belief that he won the popular vote over Clinton, who in reality won the popular vote by close to 3 million votes (though Trump won the Electoral College).
If you assume that, over the long run, the generic ballot yields an unbiased estimate of the popular vote, the Democrats might be poised to do better than they did in 2006, for example, since Democrats won the popular vote by only eight points.
This year, the party also pledged to report three sets of numbers -- a first round popular vote total, a second round popular vote total after supporters for low-scoring candidates realigned, and the all-important state delegate totals, which are the real prize for campaigns.
She'd led Trump by 5.9 percentage points in FiveThirtyEight's popular vote projection at 20163:01 a.m.
Clinton is the fifth presidential candidate to win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College.
The incumbent eventually won the 2012 election by nearly the same margin in the popular vote.
The President lost the popular vote to his Democratic rival by just about 3 million votes.
Current election rules: The president is elected in a majority popular vote for seven-year terms.
Donald Trump, it's been reported, is somewhat tormented by his popular vote loss to Hillary Clinton.
More importantly, under the compact, not all states would be voting with the popular vote winner.
The main lesson from the figure is that, yes, proportionality more closely represents the popular vote.
When the electors contradict the popular vote, some people suddenly see the merits of the system.
The shift let him secure an Electoral College majority while losing the popular vote pretty significantly.
After all, presidential elections are decided not by the popular vote but by the Electoral College.
Democratic presidential candidates have won the popular vote in four of the past five presidential elections.
Why Bernie Sanders won Iowa's popular vote, but Pete Buttigieg may win the state's Electoral College
O'Rourke came close, with 48% of the popular vote — more than Hillary Clinton's 44% in 2016.
The popular vote gap between the two men five years ago was about 6 percentage points.
Trump believes the polls are rigged, the crowds are yuge, and the popular vote was his.
Every president who took office in the 20th century did so having won the popular vote.
A candidate leading the popular vote by virtually any margin seemed assured of an electoral majority.
Then Al Gore won the 2000 popular vote but lost the presidency to George W. Bush.
Ever since Al Gore's surprise popular vote totals in 2000, turnout has been a major focus.
For the sixth out of the last seven presidential elections, the Republicans lost the popular vote.
The Republican Party won the Electoral College in 2000 and 2016, despite losing the popular vote.
He did something similar after the 123 presidential election, in which he lost the popular vote.
The now-cast sees Clinton with a 7.1-point edge in popular vote (48.9-41.8 percent).
Johnson won a record 61.1% of the popular vote, and a 19643-52 Electoral College mandate.
Many believe the robot resembles the winner of the 2016 presidential race's popular vote, Hillary Clinton.
In his 1824 presidential bid, Jackson won pluralities of both the popular vote and electoral college.
When the dust settled after the election, she had won the popular vote by 2.1 percent.
He ran again as an independent, in 1996, earning about 8 percent of the popular vote.
The exact prediction was that the GOP's candidate would capture 50.9 percent of the popular vote.
While Trump won the electoral vote, she noted, Clinton is projected to win the popular vote.
And, here it is: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote over Donald Trump by 2,864,20163 votes.
What's even more amazing is that the Trumpian focus on the popular vote is totally pointless.
Trump is the president through inauguration day 2021 no matter what happened in the popular vote.
Those votes for Hillary Clinton are the sole reason she won the popular vote, he argues.
The numbers released were for the popular vote, but those do not reflect parliamentary seats won.
All this despite the fact that he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.
So they knew that a popular vote may be wrongheaded, even in the most important matters.
It didn't work in 2016, but Hillary Clinton did still win a convincing popular vote victory.
The remaining 28503 delegates are elected directly by voters and not bound to the popular vote.
Washington (CNN)Connecticut is joining a national drive to effectively elect the president by popular vote.
The Democrats have won the national popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections.
Legislators in 85033 other states have introduced similar bills this session, according to National Popular Vote.
Women, they noted, make up the majority of the U.S. population and of the popular vote.
He only lost the popular vote by 20113 percentage points and won the Electoral College, however.
The bill, known as the the national popular vote interstate compact, was sponsored by state Sen.
The president began making those accusations after he failed to win the popular vote in 2016.
That means, on average, a switch of 2628 percent would result in a popular vote tie.
In 2172, Woodrow Wilson won 2270% of the popular vote, but 82% of the electoral vote.
Virtually every state in the Union elects its governor and other statewide offices by popular vote.
Democrats have lost two elections in the past 20 years where they won the popular vote.
Clinton won the national popular vote by more than 2 points but lost the Electoral College.
One proposal that has gained traction in the past is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
On average, elected presidents who sought re-election increased their popular vote share by 2.1 percent.
My candidate had won 23 primaries, about 1,900 delegates and, by one count, the popular vote.
The electoral college system provides a path to victory for the party losing the popular vote.
And why is Mr. Trump so hung up on the popular vote in the first place?
Clinton trailed in the popular vote at that time: Not all the ballots had been counted.
Hayes had indeed lost the popular vote, by more than two hundred and fifty thousand ballots.
Once again, the President of the United States is a Republican who lost the popular vote.
As of Wednesday morning, Clinton led the popular vote by slightly less than 1 percentage point.
The popular vote does not determine the outcome of a presidential election; the Electoral College does.
Clinton — even more likely to win the popular vote than the Republican nominee — presumptively, Mr. Trump.
You need the electoral college, which, by the way, is much tougher than the popular vote.
Only gerrymandering helped Najib's UMNO party stay in power in 2013, despite losing the popular vote.
He narrowly lost the 2014 presidential election to Widodo, who got 53% of the popular vote.
ET. Starting then, you can ask: How much of the popular vote has each candidate won?
Al Gore, who lost his home state of Tennessee, nonetheless convincingly won the national popular vote.
If she barely wins the popular vote, it could be weeks before she retakes the lead.
Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead over Mr. Trump climbed overnight to 2,370,700 — or 1.8 percentage points.
But Trump, of course, lost the popular vote in 2016 and still won the Electoral College.
If states chose to, they could devise an electoral system that better reflected the popular vote.
Since 1984, no presidential candidate has won more the about 53 percent of the popular vote.
For the second time in five elections we have a president who lost the popular vote.
Clinton's popular vote victory was more of a landmark in shifting attitudes than is often recognized.
In 2015, Ireland became the first western country to approve gay marriage by a popular vote.
But on just four occasions has the Republican victor gained a plurality of the popular vote.
President Trump, of course, won the presidency while losing the popular vote by millions in 2016.
He has also falsely claimed that without "voter fraud," he would have won the popular vote.
Winning the popular vote is cold comfort in a race that should never have been close.
President Trump may have finished second in the popular vote, but he is the legitimate president.
Republicans have won the popular vote in presidential elections just once in the last 30 years.
Despite her party's popular vote victory, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is once again demoted to minority leader.
Electors pledge to vote for their party's candidate if that person wins the state's popular vote.
It allowed the chief executive to be elected, for the first time, by a popular vote.
Imagine what would happen if Hillary Clinton won the Electoral College and lost the popular vote.
The current president lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes (2,868,85033 to be exact).
He has since repeatedly insisted voter fraud helped Clinton beat him in last year's popular vote.
She ultimately won the popular vote by 2 percentage points, but lost the Electoral College vote.
Of course, a direct popular vote system could incorporate a two-stage runoff like in California.
With such a high approval rating, the Democratic nominee would probably win the national popular vote.
In total, two-thirds of Americans do not want the popular vote loser to be elected.
Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former mayor Pete Buttigieg, in the delegate chase and popular vote.
The winner-take-all primaries should be revised to allocate delegates based on popular vote totals.
Yet after last week's meeting he was asked whether Hillary Clinton had won the popular vote.
The contest marks the third in a row in which Sanders has won the popular vote.
This commission is a fiction to undermine the fact that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
Twice in the 2628 century we have witnessed the popular vote loser win the presidential election.
No, the recent 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling does not affect a National Popular Vote.
Mr. Trump won the Electoral College, but his 43-percentage-point popular vote loss to Mrs.
He's weighed in against the idea of a national popular vote effort on the Senate floor.
To put this into context: Trump won the 2016 election with 46% of the popular vote.
Close observers might point out that Republicans could be worse off under a national popular vote.
Indeed, the national popular vote does not determine the occupant of any office in the land.
Clinton won 232 electoral votes but is leading in the popular vote by about 2 million.
I would rather have the popular vote, because it's — to me, it's much easier to win.
Clinton is still leading the real estate tycoon by a narrow margin in the popular vote.
If the election had been decided on the popular vote, the candidates would have campaigned accordingly.
I mean lost — the popular vote by a margin larger than any other president in history.
We had popular vote–winning (but Electoral College–losing) Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.
That is why we can have presidents who lose the popular vote but win the presidency.
With Mr. Bayh's departure, the Senate lost its most devoted advocate for a national popular vote.
For starters, if Democrats win the popular vote by 7, they are going to beat Trump.
In most elections, the candidate who clears 270 electoral votes is also the winner of the popular vote, but in 2000 and 2016, the candidate who assumed the presidency -- George W. Bush and Donald Trump, respectively -- won the Electoral College without a victory in the popular vote.
The other would have mandated presidents be elected by direct popular vote, abolishing the state-by-state Electoral College system that has enabled some presidents, including George W. Bush in 2000 and Donald Trump in 2016, to win the White House despite losing the national popular vote.
Compact opponents who present nightmare scenarios of endless vote recounts and litigation in close elections can be won over by using the popular vote only when one candidate has won a clear victory margin of one million votes or a 1 percent margin in the popular vote.
In the wake of the result — the fifth time in 58 U.S. presidential elections where the popular vote winner did not win the presidency — calls have grown for the nation to scrap the Electoral College and award the White House to the winner of the popular vote.
After all, she won the popular vote, thanks to the majority of women who voted for her.
The majority of these electors pledge to vote in accordance with the popular vote of their precincts.
Wondering how it's possible that Trump won despite polls predicting otherwise and Hillary getting the popular vote?
Bill Clinton claimed an election mandate in 1993 despite falling far short of a popular vote majority.
Claims massive fraud as reason he is losing popular vote The comment above came on November 15.
As of Friday, Hillary Clinton was ahead in the popular vote with 63.4 million to Trump's 61.2.
They likely need to win the popular vote by 3 to 5 points to win the presidency.
Rutherford B. Hayes, who won neither the popular vote nor the Electoral College against New York Gov.
This also recently happened in 2000 to Democratic nominee Al Gore, who won the popular vote by .
Even after 2000, when the popular vote winner was thwarted by the institution, reform efforts went nowhere.
Elsewhere, I have documented lobbying efforts aimed at electors to change the results of the popular vote.
The real issue is whether a state could force an elector to comply with the popular vote.
She may have won the popular vote by almost three million ballots in the last presidential election.
Sanders leads the popular vote, according to the results, getting 85033 percent compared to Buttigieg's 25 percent.
More thoughtful Democrats caution against reading too much into Hillary Clinton's popular-vote advantage of 2.9m votes.
Here was the last candidate before Hillary Clinton to win the popular vote and lose the presidency.
So the state's electoral college system produced the same result in 238 as a popular vote system.
Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2016 election while losing the popular vote, the video went nuts.
Trump said that he would "rather see" the presidential race's outcome determined by a simple popular vote.
Sanders leads the popular vote, according to the results, getting 26.5 percent compared to Buttigieg's 25 percent.
Warren is also in third place in the popular vote in Iowa, getting more than 85033,000 votes.
But today, Democrats would be favored to win with less than a seven-point popular vote margin.
And apart from that it is the last popular vote before the general election on September 24th.
In November 2008, Barack Obama was elected president, winning 52.9% of the popular vote to McCain's 45.7%.
Yet controversy can ensue when a candidate loses the popular vote but wins the electoral college. 220.
Clinton now has a higher percentage of pledged delegates and the overall popular vote than then-Sen.
The most popular replacement proposal is a direct popular vote: Whoever gets the most votes nationwide wins.
Claiming that he actually won the popular vote because "millions" of ballots for Hillary Clinton were fraudulent?
Trump did the best against Booker, losing by only 4 percentage points in the hypothetical popular vote.
But the key to winning the nomination for each party is ultimately not about the popular vote.
In 22020, Democrats failed to garner a majority of seats while winning a broad popular vote victory.
And he again raised unfounded claims that "illegal voting" had aided Clinton in winning the popular vote.
But Barr lost, coming in sixth place in the popular vote behind Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode.
After the votes were counted, Clinton won with 47% of the popular vote, above Trump with 41%.
"This is a prime minister who must pass through the popular vote, sooner or later," Maio added.
That year Mondale, a former vice president, wiped out against Reagan 59-19643% in the popular vote.
This means the opportunity for an electoral college/popular vote split in Trump's favor remains quite plausible.
If he wins, with or without the popular vote, any excuses for 2016 fall by the wayside.
Sanders led in the popular vote, although he trailed in the number of state delegate equivalents earned.
Trump lost the national popular vote to Clinton but won in the electoral college 304 to 227.
The forecast, to be sure, is about the popular vote, not the vote in the Electoral College.
He said between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes resulted in him losing the popular vote.
What's more, this kind of victory — an Electoral College win, popular vote loss — could become more common.
Both passed by popular vote, including in a year when California helped elect America's first Black president.
Republicans prevail in the Electoral College even though they are hopelessly outplayed in the popular-vote contest.
The numbers released were for the popular vote, but these did not reflect parliamentary constituency seats won.
Democrats hold higher ground nationally, with popular vote victories in six of the last seven presidential elections.
I believe a national popular vote will set up a fair election between all candidates for president.
Republicans won the House popular vote in 2010 by about the same as Democrats did in 2018.
Since 1992, on average 6.2 percent of the popular vote has not gone to either major party.
"I would rather have the popular vote count because for me, it would be easier," Trump said.
In Pennsylvania, 17 of the state's delegates will be bound to the popular vote on April 26.
A similar poll last month showed 49 percent of Trump voters think he won the popular vote.
But the party has also struggled in presidential elections, capturing the popular vote only once since 1988.
It is debatable whether a popular vote system would push Democrats to recognize minorities in this way.
Each will see the possibility of winning the presidency with only a sliver of the popular vote.
Last time around, Trump barely knew the difference between the popular vote and the electoral college vote.
He lost the popular vote, but won the presidency by a decisive margin through the electoral college.
Having lost the nationwide popular vote, however, he would do well to heed the views of progressives.
Calm and composed after a devastating defeat — and one in which she won the popular vote — Mrs.
Andrew Jackson won the popular vote in 1824, but eventually lost the election to John Quincy Adams.
Clinton became the second Democratic presidential candidate in modern history to lose despite winning the popular vote.
It has been 248 years since a president won the popular vote by a double-digit percentage.
Independents are almost evenly split, with 49 percent saying popular vote and 44 percent saying Electoral College.
And I want to remind Mr. Trump, you have not gotten the majority of the popular vote.
Opponents, however, argue that a popular vote system would incentivize candidates to cater mostly to large cities.
Clinton won the popular vote with a lead of more than 2 million over the President-elect.
The U.S. cannot have the popular vote of California determine the next president for the entire country.
As the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee in 2012, he won around 1 percent of the popular vote.
While Clinton won the popular vote, Trump was able to claim victory by winning the Electoral College.
In 2012, Obama got 65.9 million votes and won the popular vote by a 4 percent margin.
And the winner of the national popular vote is usually also the winner in the Electoral College.
This is why Hillary Clinton can win the popular vote but get clobbered in the electoral college.
Clinton wins the presidency, she might not take the lead in the national popular vote for hours.
But neither the popular vote nor statewide results are technically the mechanism that elects the US president.
In fact, the new map still slightly advantages the Republicans with respect to the statewide popular vote.
But it is very doubtful that Republicans would survive a 13-point loss in the popular vote.
Similarly, Republicans in 2010 had a nine-point lead and won the popular vote by seven points.
I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the Electoral College.
Only two other presidents have been elected with smaller popular vote margins since records began in 1824.
And you know we have a tremendous disadvantage in the Electoral College — popular vote is much easier.
It's an agreement between states to award their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the popular vote.
Trump's claim that he would have won the popular vote without illegal voting reeks of this strategy.
He has claimed he would have won the popular vote had it not been for voter fraud.
Some argued that allowing regions to demand autonomy based on a popular vote could open the floodgates.
Trump's upset 2628 victory — he lost the popular vote — was possible only because he won what Rep.
Sanders is still the popular vote leader, both in caucus-goers' initial preference and the final allocation.
Trump even has plausible paths to re-election, some of which involve again losing the popular vote.
Someday we will elect a president by popular vote, but for now we're stuck with this guy.
In each of these three elections, the plurality winner earned about 2628 percent of the popular vote.
Democratic House candidates win the total popular vote by a few percentage points, but it's not enough.
The Liberals, in power in British Columbia since 2001, won the most seats and the popular vote.
Obama won the popular vote over John McCain by a national margin of almost 7.3 percentage points.
But would scrapping the existing system in favor of the raw popular vote actually resolve these issues?
Clinton won the popular vote by 1 percentage point, even though Trump beat her on electoral votes.
Cillizza: The argument for the popular vote is simple: He (or she) with the most votes wins.
A G.O.P. presidential candidate loses the popular vote, but somehow ends up in the White House anyway.
Any president presumably would like the legitimacy and historical validation conferred by a national popular vote victory.
Two years later this trend reversed, when Labour won the popular vote among women (but lost overall).
Coffman argued that the Constitution allows the state to bind its electors to the popular vote winner.
"The national popular vote would make every vote in every city, in every state, important," he said.
The trend of Republicans losing the popular vote and winning the White House will only get worse.
Trump's 21980 opponent, the centrist liberal Hillary Clinton, won a 26.4 percent plurality in the popular vote.
Trump lost the national popular vote to Clinton but won in the electoral college 304 to 227.
That's, in part, how someone like Trump can lose the popular vote, but win the Electoral College.
A year later, Democrats won the US House popular vote by a little less than 9 points.
In 2017, Democrats won the state House popular vote by 9 points on strength in the suburbs.
Though several national polls came close to capturing the final result in the popular vote — which Mrs.
This popular vote win translates, by our calculations, into a narrow Electoral College win of 274 votes.
He won reelection in 1972 with more than 60% of the popular vote and 520 electoral votes.
It was difficult to foresee that Trump would lose the popular vote while winning the Electoral College.
It would have been the narrowest popular vote margin of any winning candidate since the 20163 election.
But Republican Presidential candidates have lost the popular vote in five of the last six Presidential elections.
Mayors, state legislators and governors can be elected by, at minimum, a plurality of the popular vote.
No one on either side of the Atlantic thought that winning the popular vote would affect anything.
This popular vote projection comes, however, with a true margin of error of about +/- 9 percentage points.
Though it is polled thousands of times, the national popular vote stands almost alone in its irrelevance.
So far, 2202 states possessing 2628 electoral votes have enacted the National Popular Vote bill into law.
He seemed to be under the impression that millions of illegal votes cost him the popular vote.
Trudeau became the first Canadian leader in decades to lose the popular vote and win the election.
Speaking to lawmakers, he again falsely claimed that he lost the popular vote because of illegal immigrants.
JK: Last time, Obama won the delegate count in Nevada, then lost the quote-unquote popular vote.
He also lost the popular vote by the third largest margin among winning presidential candidates since 22015.
Four years ago, he became the fifth man to win the presidency while losing the popular vote.
President Donald Trump baselessly claimed that millions of illegal votes cost him the popular vote in 2016.
He still holds the record as having achieved the widest popular vote margin in any presidential election.
Donald Trump is not the first recent president to win the election while losing the popular vote.
There is only one president-elect has lost the popular vote by a wider margin than Trump.
Nationally, each candidate got a bit under 48 percent of the popular vote — they're about evenly matched.
Though he lost the popular vote by 3 million, Trump carried 20203 congressional districts to Clinton's 205.
Clinton has won an outright delegate majority, a majority of pledged delegates, and the national popular vote.
How difficult would it be to throw off this system and replace it with a popular vote?
If a popular vote makes sense for gubernatorial elections, why doesn't it make sense for presidential elections?
She lost despite having a 2.09% advantage in the popular vote, greater than that enjoyed by the winning candidates in three elections over the past six decades: Jimmy Carter in 1976 (who won the popular vote by 2.07%), Richard Nixon in 1968 (0.7%) and John Kennedy in 63 (0.17%).
But according to the latest count, Sanders is leading in the popular vote in both the first and second rounds of voting, and while typically the "winner" of the Iowa caucus is determined by the allocation of delegates, the Bernie camp is claiming it's the popular vote that counts.
Indeed, Trump's popular vote total (59 million and counting) is going to similar to Mitt Romney's in 2012 (61 million), but Clinton's total (and equal 59 million -- she just over took Trump in the popular vote)is going to be far short of Obama's 66 million in 2012.
There has long been support for using the popular vote over the Electoral College, but this recent poll marks its highest level of support in recent years with two-thirds who said the US should use the popular vote and the other third who believe in the Electoral College.
Princeton professor and election guru Sam Wang tried to take another stab at this question by looking at how much the Democrats would need to win the popular vote by to win the House, and then trying to figure out where the popular vote currently appears to be headed.
That could change this year, but only if Democrats win the popular vote not just narrowly but overwhelmingly.
"We are confident in our popular vote count," Mark Thompson, the chair of the Elections Commission, said Monday.
And though she lost the Electoral College, Clinton won the popular vote by a 3 million strong margin.
The ratification of the amendment would mean presidential candidates would be directly elected by the national popular vote.
In accordance with popular vote, a Zebra plant (named Jeff) is either watered or not watered every night.
According to National Popular vote, in 2016 there were 154 Republicans who sponsored the measures and 162 Democrats.
Just 16 years ago, George W. Bush lost the popular vote but squeezed out an Electoral College victory.
First, arguments for a national popular vote and the abolition of the Electoral College will certainly gain momentum.
Trump won the Electoral College vote but lost the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes to Clinton.
This allowed Lincoln to win with only 39.8% of the popular vote (Douglas got 29.5%, Breckenridge got 18.1%).
In 2016, Hillary Clinton lost Texas by 9 points even while winning the national popular vote by 2.
Sanders, in other words, got just about as many delegates as the state's popular vote total would suggest.
A carbon tax proposal narrowly failed by popular vote in relatively green Washington state in November, for example.
He also lost the popular vote by more than 2.6 million, the largest margin of any winning president.
For instance, you can't simply say, as a conservative radio host, that Donald Trump lost the popular vote.
If you get 60 percent of the popular vote, you should get 60 percent of the electoral vote.
KUALA SIN, Malaysia (Reuters) - Prime Minister Najib Razak won Malaysia's last general election, despite losing the popular vote.
One big difference: unlike Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen needs to win a majority of the popular vote.
U.S. elections are not ultimately determined by popular vote, of course, but by members of the Electoral College.
Clinton won 370 votes to Bush's 168, and outranked Bush by 63 percentage points in the popular vote.
First George W. Bush, elected without winning the popular vote, gained a surge of popularity after 9/11.

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