The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule.
So far, 8 states and the District of Columbia have approved National Popular Vote.
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He knows he won the national popular vote, but under the Constitution, that does not matter.
It recently enacted legislation that mandates its electoral votes go to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
If we go by the National Popular Vote we'll get more people voting.
The National Popular Vote bill is a thinly veiled effort to void Article II of the Constitution and its elector system.
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While this effort passes Constitutional muster, the National Popular Vote bill, also being considered by state legislatures, is an obvious end-run around the electoral system.
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In 2012, The National Popular Vote bill could guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
The National Popular Vote bill, which has been enacted in 9 states and could gain momentum with a rocky election aftermath this year, is not the answer.
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It turns out that Obama, who won just 50.6% of the national popular vote (versus 47.8% for Romney), won by 63%-35% among this one-fifth of all voters.
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It is an end-run around the Electoral College, requiring each state that enacts it to cast its electoral votes for the candidate who won the national popular vote.
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Despite losing the national popular vote to Gore, Bush won the presidency after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that capped a contentious five weeks of legal battles and recounts.
The folks at National Popular Vote are shepherding an interstate compact that links states together to award their votes in the Electoral College on the basis of national tallies.
The controversial recount of Florida votes in 2000 could well take place across the nation, since we would then have essentially a national popular vote, potentially delaying the seating of a new president for months.
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In his view, the fact that he won the national popular vote gives him license to prove he would have won Florida as well, were it not for badly designed ballots and faulty voting machines.
It essentially eliminates any state role in elections, and means that even when a state votes overwhelmingly for Candidate A, its electoral votes will go to Candidate B instead if he won the national popular vote.
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It cited a similar push for change after the 2000 election, when Democratic Vice President Al Gore won the national popular vote but lost the electoral vote, and therefore the decision, to Republican George W. Bush.
And Democrats, still hurting from 2000 when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote, have been championing a National Popular Vote that would, as a practical matter, do away with the Electoral College and its impact.
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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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There is no popular vote in our national politics, and further twisting the Electoral College to align with just one political party makes the vote even more skewed in favor of rural America.
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To give himself a real shot at becoming Indonesia's next president, Rais needs to increase the disappointing 7.4% of the popular vote that his National Mandate Party won in the parliamentary elections last June.
Imagine if we had a popular vote recount which would necessarily be national in scale?
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By then the election was but two weeks away, and though there appeared to be growing Lindbergh support among voters throughout the traditionally Democratic South, and close contests were predicted in the most conservative midwestern states, national polls showed the president comfortably ahead in the popular vote and well ahead in electoral votes.
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