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Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College. -- Thomas E. Mann
Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes. -- John Ridley
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for. -- Bobby Seale
No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering. -- Kevin Bleyer
Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all. -- Michael Bloomberg
The Electoral College is justified and right. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Electoral College is justified and right. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College. -- Al Gore
The Electoral College has been with us since the first days of America. -- Rush Limbaugh
The Electoral College has been with us since the first days of America. -- Rush Limbaugh
Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists. -- Tom Golisano
Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise. -- Mo Ibrahim
I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law. -- David Remnick
The Democrat Party, particularly with demographic shifts taking, would love to get rid of the Electoral College. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Democrat Party, particularly with demographic shifts taking, would love to get rid of the Electoral College. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Electoral College protects state sovereignty. It actually is one of the most brilliantly conceived electoral mechanisms ever. -- Rush Limbaugh
The Electoral College protects state sovereignty. It actually is one of the most brilliantly conceived electoral mechanisms ever. -- Rush Limbaugh
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush. -- George Galloway
US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed. -- Roseanne Barr
This is exactly why the Electoral College is set up the way it is, so that one state would not elect the president. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
This is exactly why the Electoral College is set up the way it is, so that one state would not elect the president. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. -- Ken Blackwell
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. -- Ken Blackwell
Campaigns are conducted specifically because of the Electoral College, and people accept it and they understand it. Whether they know it or not, they accept it. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Campaigns are conducted specifically because of the Electoral College, and people accept it and they understand it. Whether they know it or not, they accept it. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. -- John Podhoretz
Donald Trump wasn't vying for the popular vote. He was vying for the Electoral College, as was Hillary Clinton. The only difference is he got over 300 electoral votes, and she did not. -- Kellyanne Conway
You can't understand the Electoral College unless you know what federalism is, and federalism is one of these terms that, in many cases, means the exact opposite of the word as it's currently applied. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
You can't understand the Electoral College unless you know what federalism is, and federalism is one of these terms that, in many cases, means the exact opposite of the word as it's currently applied. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought. -- Jeff Greenfield
Hillary Clinton began a New York thank-you tour Friday by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. No wonder Arkansas never liked her. She hasn't been in office three days and already she's an abolitionist. -- Argus Hamilton
My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote their conscience, and if their conscience leads them that way, they should follow their conscience. -- Barbara Boxer
The primary purpose of the Electoral College is to maintain the power of the states and to support the idea that the election is decided by the states. It's not decided by the general population, and it never was. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The primary purpose of the Electoral College is to maintain the power of the states and to support the idea that the election is decided by the states. It's not decided by the general population, and it never was. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Democrats came into the race with a structural advantage in the Electoral College. Their big blue wall - the states that Democrats have won in the past six presidential elections - gave [Hillary] Clinton a strong base to build on. -- Mara Liasson
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case. -- Gene Green
If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public. -- Nate Silver
Even without voting, illegal aliens do affect who gets elected president, and that's since the Electoral College elects the president, and the states are given 80% of their electoral votes based on their population, whether they include illegals or not, is the assessment that that is how they affect elections. -- Rush Limbaugh
Even without voting, illegal aliens do affect who gets elected president, and that's since the Electoral College elects the president, and the states are given 80% of their electoral votes based on their population, whether they include illegals or not, is the assessment that that is how they affect elections. -- Rush Limbaugh
My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility. -- Tim Kaine
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. -- Ed Gillespie
Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed. -- Blanche Lincoln
The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics. -- Baltasar Garzon
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. -- Honore de Balzac
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak. -- Mark McKinnon
The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. -- Gloria Steinem
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. -- Roy Jenkins
Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper than many in the West who take their electoral rights for granted. -- Stephen Kinzer
The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign. -- Hugh Sidey
When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around. -- Dick Cheney
Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives. -- Tomas Borge
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic. -- Christine Pelosi
It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. -- Tina Brown
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything. -- George Will
Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades. -- Mark McKinnon
Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said. -- Al Franken
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history. -- Juan Williams
The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job. -- John Podhoretz
I think I've had my fill of electoral law. -- Danny Strong
This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide. -- John Lewis
I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio. -- Bernardine Dohrn
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes -- Robert A. Dahl
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. -- Robert A. Dahl
Donald Trump is obviously the most pro-gay candidate in American electoral history. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio. -- Bernardine Dohrn
[Donald Trump] has a pretty sizable electoral map win, much more than anybody thought. -- Rudy Giuliani
When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system. -- Sheikh Hasina
All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. -- Peter Camejo
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics. -- Jack Kemp
The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods. -- Catherine Helen Spence
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman. -- Robert Dallek
Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems. -- Noam Chomsky
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. -- Michael Parenti
It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided. -- Dominique de Villepin
I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process. -- Tim Kaine
I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico. -- Vicente Fox
Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. -- Mo Rocca
Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not. -- Michael Lind
Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump. -- Dalia Mogahed
Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco. -- Dan Rather
Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican. -- David Swanson
This is all very interesting, but Donald Trump won in an electoral landslide that had nothing to do with the Russians. -- Reince Priebus
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. -- Paul Wellstone
Capricornia is one of the most marginal seats in the country. So naturally the electoral battle is fought in the marginal seats. -- George Brandis
It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force. -- Howard Fineman
I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy. -- Moby
The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics. -- Jean Dreze
It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures -- Geoffrey Howe
Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs. -- James Comey
The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country.The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process. -- Robert A. Agresta
The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated about the electoral process. -- Narendra Modi
It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue. -- Rowan Williams
We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy. -- Jill Stein
New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes. -- David Letterman
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I do believe there needs to be an investigation of the intelligence community's findings, classified findings, in order to ensure the electoral integrity of our system moving forward. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud. -- Hugo Chavez
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance. -- Perry Christie
I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered. -- Tom Hayden
The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process. -- Walter Cronkite
Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people. -- Joseph Stalin
Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me. -- Chris Murphy
The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved. -- Marianne Williamson
While Donald Trump is showing some strength in places like Iowa, it's just not enough to get him close to getting the electoral votes that he needs to win. -- Bill Burton
General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me. -- Benazir Bhutto
I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight. -- Douglas Alexander
They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council. -- John Hume
Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'Ã©tat, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way. -- John Ralston Saul
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit. -- Jonathan Zittrain
I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem. -- Bill McKibben
President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. -- Timothy Noah
Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances. -- John F. Kerry

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