The mock election uses the electoral college system.
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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.
During the time between the Pope's resignation and the election of his successor, the college of cardinals will govern the Church, headed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, as the cardinal camerlengo - or chamberlain.
As we saw with this election, the College often gives a close contest a definitive end, which enables us to put the election behind us and move onward.
Initiative, an organization dedicated to abolishing the Electoral College and instituting the direct election of the President of the United States by popular vote.
"We congratulate Pope Francis on his election by the College of Cardinals and offer the Muslim community's support and cooperation in every positive effort he will undertake for peace, justice and the betterment of humanity, " Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a news release.
Point out that the U.S. Constitution does specify a system for the election of the president, known as the Electoral College.
The 2000 election was an unhappy exception--both the College and the popular vote were virtual ties.
Many told Alexander they were lobbied or pressured by someone to change their allegiance -- sometimes in person, sometimes by anonymous e-mails and phone calls -- in the period between Election Day and mid-December, when the Electoral College votes.
Though the state's declining population lost two of its votes in the Electoral College -- it will only have 21 in the coming election -- Pennsylvania packs enough of a punch to make or break a presidential campaign.
Mr Penn's strategy may have worked if the Democrats allocated all the delegates in each state to the winner (just as the electoral-college vote is awarded to the winning candidate in the general election in almost every state).
After the unresolved presidential election of 1824, when none of the four candidates achieved an Electoral College majority, the House met the following January to decide the outcome.
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.
Welcome to the Forbes Interactive Electoral College Map, where you can predict the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.
"Midterm elections just aren't as popular or as sexy as the presidential election, " said FAU junior Ben Wack, who's been with the College Republicans for a year.
But as the couple watched the electoral votes seesaw between Al Gore and George W. Bush in the wee hours of election night, they knew their line of college sweatshirts, T shirts and baseball caps would spring to life.
But just what if President Obama wins re-election with a tiny margin in the popular vote but carries the Electoral College by 136 (or 139) votes?
Data from the 2000 election shows that 85 percent of Precinct 20, which contains a majority of college students, voted for George W. Bush, while 11 percent went for former Vice President Al Gore.
The Electoral College was created in 1787 by a constitutional convention whose delegates were unconvinced that the election of the president could be entrusted to an unfiltered vote of the people, and were concerned about the division of power among the 13 states.
And returning to the variable at hand, pre-election polls gave Romney a double-digit lead among likely voters with college educations, although Obama led among those with post-graduate degrees.
Yet a study commissioned by the previous government and published just before last year's election found that only 12% of the teenagers receiving the allowance said they would not be able to attend college without it.
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