In 1913, the 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
Rather than dismantling the Electoral College with an amendment, we can use the mechanisms of the Electoral College itself to guarantee popular election of the president.
The huge demand for the popular election of the president reflects a cynicism towards members of Parliament in Canberra: many Australians do not want them to have any more control over public life.
The begums have won at least 70% of the popular vote in every election since the end of the last military regime in 1990.
Election day started with a massive cyber-attack that brought down the websites of Ekho Moskvy, a popular radio station, and of Golos, an independent election monitor that Mr Putin had likened to Judas a few days earlier.
In Wales, the election of the popular Rhodri Morgan as first minister in 2000 shot Plaid's fox.
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But he will owe this less to what he is allowed to do than to the fact of his popular election.
The party won the right to the federal money for the 2000 presidential election when Perot received more than 5 percent of the popular vote in the 1996 election.
Making a prediction based only on text may at first glance seem myopic because it ignores most of the formidably complex interplay of candidate personality, voter sentiment, and popular issues that ultimately determines the outcome of an election.
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Then the 2012 presidential election was an affirmation of popular support for Obama and the policies for which he fought.
Mr Rove is widely credited with playing a key role in transforming Bush's image from unruly, hard-drinking, brattish politician's son to popular governor of Texas and then eventual election and re-election as president.
In Uxbridge, however, the by-election followed the death of a popular Tory, and there was a swing to the Conservatives of 5%.
There has been a sharp rise in electoral challenges since then and, with the polls showing the Obama-Romney race very tight in both popular and electoral votes, the specter of election recounts, or even an electoral tie vote has arisen.
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The proposal is, in many respects, cosmetic, pandering to the misguided but popular perception that democracy has to be defined in terms solely of process (election) rather than process geared to outcome (ensuring outputs that represent the popular will).
The Popular Committee for Boycotting the Election said the new body "does not represent the majority of Kuwaiti people and has lost popular and political legitimacy".
Those are all the fixings for a close election, measured by percent of the popular vote.
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PDI-P would emerge as the most popular of the 48 parties that contested the election.
He also fumbled his response to the popular demonstrations that followed Iran's fraudulent presidential election of June 2009.
We should look more deeply at the claim that the Electoral College is undemocratic and the desirability of an alternative the National Popular Vote bill that is likely to be pressed upon us if this close election ends up in any kind of controversy, including a candidate who wins the popular vote and loses the electoral vote, or a major recount, or the highly unlikely tie vote.
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Election year wrangling over energy policy left the popular piece of legislation in the lurch.
And, as the 2000 election reminded us, the winner of the popular vote is not guaranteed to become president.
The effect of impeachment is to overturn the popular will of the voters as expressed in a national election.
He is also seen as the party's only chance, in a genuinely free and fair election, of defeating Morgan Tsvangirai, his popular prime minister and leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which has been Zanu-PF's partner for the past three years in a power-sharing government.
Without more widespread popular support, however, a general election could be the end of him.
Initiative, an organization dedicated to abolishing the Electoral College and instituting the direct election of the President of the United States by popular vote.
Mr Bush obtained 49.8m votes in this election, giving him more than 48% of the popular vote.
"Don't forget Mr Sarkozy won almost half the popular vote when he lost the election, " said Edouard Lecerf, of TNS Sofres.
Consumer protection has been a popular focus this election year, since it, among all the facets of financial reform, is the easiest for voters to grasp.
Since 1916, seven Presidents have won a second term, and all of them exceeded the percentage of the popular vote that they received in their first election.
But a popular-vote-only election would have candidates bypassing all but a handful of large states.
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