Essays Tagged: "popular votes"
The Electoral College.
the aggregation of the electoral votes by state, it is possible that a candidate might win the most popular votes but lose in theElectoral College voting, this happened 3 times in the 19th century, bu ... m they are pledged.Twenty- six states have no requirement that electors vote in accordance with the popular vote. Nineteen states and D.C. mandatethat they vote in accordance with the popular vote but ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Election of Lincoln and Civil War.
s not by a majority vote. As stated by the historian Neville he in fact won less than 40 percent of popular votes. However because the American election system is based on the college votes system (wh ... who should lead the party. Douglas, one member aiming for leadership of the democrats, believed in popular sovereignty ie the population of a state choosing for itself on the matter of slavery. The o ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
This is an essay about the Electon of 1876
of Ohio, ran against Democrat Governor Samuel J. Tilden, of New York. Tilden received 250,000 more popular votes than Hayes. Yet, the Republicans refused to admit defeat, so they demanded a recount o ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Capital Punishment Debate
ium (halting of all executions) and the commuting of the sentences was not based on moral values or popular votes. It was based on Mr. Ryan wanting to build a legacy and nothing more. In fact, statist ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty
Bill Clinton
Governor of Arkansas. He is also a Democrat.The Presidential election results were as follows:Year Popular Votes Electoral Votes1992Bill Clinton George BushH. Ross Perot 44,909,88939,104,54519,742,26 ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
The Electoral College
ny representatives each state receives for the house.(Unknown, How The Electoral College Works) The popular vote is then taken for each state, and whatever party or representative receives the most po ... takes all the electoral votes. This is a winner takes all system. One party could receive one more popular vote than another party and they still receive all the electoral votes. There are a total of ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
The Electoral College
the aggregation of the electoral votes by state, it is possible that a candidate might win the most popular votes but lose in the Electoral College voting, this happened 3 times in the 19th century, b ... they are pledged. Twenty- six states have no requirement that electors vote in accordance with the popular vote. Nineteen states and D.C. mandate that they vote in accordance with the popular vote bu ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Electoral college.
n.Winner take all is the main problem out of these three. If a candidate wins the largest number of popular votes in a state, that person receives all the state's electoral votes most of the time. In ... n, but Clinton did not receive any of Texas's electoral votes. He received 2 million votes from the popular; however, he did not receive any of the electoral votes out of 32. 32 of the electoral votes ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
To what extent was Lincoln a mandate to abolish slavery?
lavery was protected by the constitution and that he did not hold the power to abolish slavery. The popular votes showed that more than half of the population did not vote for Lincoln. The outcome of ... f the election was not a mandate to end slavery because Lincoln did not receive the majority of the popular votes and he had no intention of abolishing slavery.Although Abraham Lincoln disapproved of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Wilson's Policy
sort whatever" (wikipedia.com). Wilson one the election of 1912 not because of the majority of the popular votes but electoral votes. Wilson continued to state that New Freedom stood for political an ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
The Electoral College
ors representing their choice for president and vice president. Whichever party slate wins the most popular votes becomes that state's Electors. So whichever president wins the most popular votes, win ... however two exceptions to this rule. In Maine and Nebraska the two Electors are chosen by statewide popular vote and the remainder by the popular vote within each Congressional district.The Electoral ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
What keeps people in my demographic from voting?
y well be due to feelings of insignificance since presidents are voted in by electoral votes not by popular votes. However, it takes an adequate amount of popular votes to get the electoral vote for t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community