In both France and the Netherlands, the public rejected the European constitution in popular votes nearly eight years ago.
In both the 1960 and 1968 presidential elections, the popular votes were squeakers, yet the College unambiguously decided the outcomes.
Those working to avoid popular votes on the treaty justify their actions on the ground that Eurosceptics are acting in still worse faith.
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But either would, most likely, be won by the Thaksinites and be ignored by the PAD, which has little regard for popular votes.
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).
Six states plus the District of Columbia already had allowed gay marriage, but in those cases the unions were sanctioned by lawmakers or by courts, not popular votes.
The U.S. Supreme Court's stay Saturday of a Florida Supreme Court order to begin the hand count of disputed ballots could push a few electors to vote counter to their states' popular votes, he said.
By contrast, it was reported that some Bush advisers discussed plans before the election to try to challenge the Electoral College result if--as seemed more likely at the time--Bush got more popular votes but Gore led in electors.
The senator was a little more than an hour late for his scheduled 1 p.m. speech in Fanueil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, but it was the 3.5 million deficit in popular votes and the lack of 18 electoral votes that turned the breezy quip serious.
Ms. WALTER: The fact that, you know, she may have won some of those big states or that if you include Florida and Michigan she actually has more popular votes doesn't necessarily jibe with the way that national polls look in terms of who'd be the better candidate to face John McCain.
That meant only nine Popular Party votes were needed to win the vote, which called for more weapons inspectors and opposed military action.
Andrew Jackson in both popular and electoral votes, but received more than William H.
His opponent is Jeff Flake, a deficit hawk who has cast votes against lots of popular programmes.
Those fighting words helped him win 27 percent of the popular vote, and 88 electoral votes --- the best third-party showing of the 20th century.
The originally Cuban drink, now broadly popular, took 26% of votes.
If none gets 50% of the first choices, the votes of the least popular candidates are redistributed until one has the support of at least half the voters.
Republicans, who have lost four of the last six presidential elections, are moving in key battleground states to change electoral voting from winner-takes-all to a distribution of votes depending on the popular vote.
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If after a first round no candidate had more than 50% of the votes cast, the votes of the least popular candidate would be redistributed, following the second preferences indicated by supporters of that eliminated candidate.
Gore, however, ended up winning the popular vote by about 540, 000 votes.
Democrats in Colorado have put an initiative on the ballot that would award the state's electoral votes in proportion to the popular vote.
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.
Their systems differ from the Virginia proposal by awarding the two additional electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote, rather than who won the most districts.
By far, the most popular response (with 48% of all votes) was commercial tax prep software, followed by a professional tax preparer (25%), electronic fillable forms (20%), and filling out paper forms manually (6%).
The least popular candidate drops out, with their first preference votes reallocated according to second preference.
If no candidate gets 50% of first preferences, the least popular candidate is eliminated and his second-preference votes are reallocated.
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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It recently enacted legislation that mandates its electoral votes go to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
Dropping the plan may win ministers votes - but it won't make them popular with doctors and health campaigners.
The traditionalists retort that Mr Gore not only won the popular vote by 500, 000: he won far more votes than Mr Clinton ever did.
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