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Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College. -- Thomas E. Mann
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush. -- George Galloway
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
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
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
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
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College. -- Al Gore
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. -- Ed Gillespie
Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists. -- Tom Golisano
US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed. -- Roseanne Barr
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
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
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
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
The Electoral College is justified and right. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Electoral College is justified and right. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
It took a course from me for the Democratic leadership to realize we have an electoral college. 'But we got the popular vote!' Well you can take the MTA from Dorchester to Brookline. That's how far it'll get you. -- Ira Carmen
I never stop running. I'm not one of the weenies who drop out just because the electoral college votes. I'm still in the race. I'm an extremely corrupt candidate and I stress that in case anybody in our reading audience is interested in sending me money. -- Dave Barry
The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government. -- Thomas DiLorenzo
Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems. -- Noam Chomsky
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

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