The candidate who received the most votes from the electors will become President. ... In each state, whichever candidate receives the most popular vote is given all of that state's electoral votes. ... In 1824, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson had the most electoral votes. ... In most elections, the electoral vote follows the popular vote anyways, so why take the extra step of requiring the electorates to vote? ... The most often cited reason why people don't vote is because they do not think that their vote will make a difference. ...

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Historians regard the treaty as a brilliant act of diplomacy, and close to the end of Adam's life, he called it "the most important event of my life". ... He wanted to be President, but although Adams was the most distinguished member of the Monroe Cabinet, his success was somewhat neutralized by his lack of friends and organizational backing. ... There Henry Clay, a powerful member of the House, gave his support to Adams, who emerged victorious despite having received less than one-third of the popular vote. ...

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The last choice gave an equal balance between the states, and seemed the most reasonable choice. ... Electors are expected to ratify the people's choice by voting for candidates winning the popular election. ... This problem was encountered during the 2002 election, one of the closes elections in history, where, even though Al Gore won the popular vote for most states, George Bush won the election. ... Most people believe that the only way to change the voting system in the US is to pass an amendment to the constitution. ... It would be very complicated to pass an amendment to take a...

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Today everyone for the most part in the United States has an education. ... With where technology is going it would be much easier to re-due to system based on popular election and trust that they are well educated enough to choose who is to be there leader. ... Popular vote holds no real weight in the elections. You can win the popular vote by far and still loose the presidency. ... Then pool all the "community" popular votes together to see who would win. ...

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The 1920's started the social life that most of us know today. ... Silent movies were very popular at this time, along with radios. ... Football and baseball also became popular at this time and heroes such as Babe Ruth entertained millions of people. ... In the 30's a man named John Dillinger became popular for robbing banks and the people loved him for it because they hated the banks. ... The president that was in office for most of the 20's was Calvin Coolidge, otherwise known as "silent cal". ...

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There were only dubious hints that he was one of the many behind 9/11, most of which have been disproved, and just about the only connections are the facts that he was glad they happened and he's Middle Eastern. ... News U.S. edition, the most popular stories are of U.S. soldiers being welcomed and fed by Iraqi civilians; the French edition's most popular stories are of all the Iraqi casualties. ...

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The most important group of this movement was the National American Woman Suffrage Association, also knows as the "National American". ... This Association was successful because during the Progressive Era many more women had had formal education and women's clubs were very popular. ... Their actions might have stepped on a few toes here and there, but for the most part the American people embraced their policies, and showed this by sending three successive Progressive Presidents to the White House (Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson). ...

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He was also popular among his troops, who said that Jackson was "as tough as old hickory wood" on the battlefield, which earned him him the nickname "Old Hickory." ... Jackson being the most popular candidate still lost to his opponent John Quincy Adams. ... New York was the most populated state during Jackson's presidency. New York City was the most populated city with 202,589 civilians. ... In his eight years he molded the people who followed him into the country's most durable and successful political party, the Democratic Party. ...

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It was his character, his courage, kindness, persistence, honesty, and his almost heroic patience in the face of setbacks, that was the most important element of his success. ... Most Presidents come from something pretty stable. ... Ronald Reagan is among the most popular presidents we've had. ... Ronald Reagan is popular with the old today in part because they could see then and see now what the elites could never see, what it cost him to be him. ... When I spoke to some of them they all said they knew he had been a movie star, and most had learned he had been supportive of American...

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Bush had been a popular president especially when it came to his role in the Persian Gulf War. ... The economy had not been where most Americans wanted it and as a result Clinton was elected president. ... If he is not a popular president, the public will not listen to him and the networks may even refuse to air him. ... Third, and most difficult, the people must be effected and take action. ... Public approval in turn is the most decisive factor separating powerful presidents from weak ones. ...

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The movie was an instant success, and the film was one of the top grossing films of 1965 and still remains one of film's most popular musicals. ... As I stated in my previous paragraphs with the facts and information from 1965, you can see that most news and traditions still remain the same in our present year of 2003. ...

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He made the most through violations of the Constitution in the nation's history. ... Lincoln even threw out the Constitution and retained popular appeal of the masses. ... He lacked the popular appeal that Lincoln had, allowing the people in the south to not trust him. ...

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Late presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln are always in the top ten of America's favorite presidents. So what was the reason for their assassination? Maybe society today does not have knowledge enough about the two late presidents to judge them on how great they actuall...

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By now, most losing vice presidential picks would have faded into the background as soon as the election was over. ... All of those SNL snippets, flubbed interviews and ugly rumors about exorbitant shopping sprees are just making Sarah Palin more popular. ...

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In most instances, fundamental school reform requires legislative or popular initiatives, or the approval of a state or local governing authority. ... Bush thinks in spite of conflicting signals and a popular culture that sometimes drowns their innocence. He thinks that most children are good children. ... (Bush said) He says being a parent he knows that it is not always easy and gets hard everyday, but when a man and a women have a child, being a father or mother becomes their most important job in life. ...

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The Democratic Party helped build the most powerful economic engine in history by embracing immigrants and bringing them into the American mainstream. ... During Clinton's term it was the time of the most peace in history and the longest expansion of the economy. ... Vice President Al Gore won the popular vote for president by more than 500,000 votes in 2000 against George Bush, but lost because of the electoral votes. ...

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His popularity through the Rough riders gave him enough popular strength to become the candidate for Governor of New York, and he won by a landslide. ... Roosevelt would go on to file suit against more than 40 major corporations during his presidency, even though he lost most cases. ...

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His popularity through the Rough riders gave him enough popular strength to become the candidate for Governor of New York, and he won by a landslide. ... Roosevelt would go on to file suit against more than 40 major corporations during his presidency, even though he lost most cases. ...

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The focus in these stories is most often placed on the central political figures of the actual events; Army generals, senators, or presidents, such as in the movie Nixon. ... Directors Oliver Stone (J.F.K.) and Alan Pakula (All the President's Men) offer a behind the scenes perspective regarding two of the most publicized political scandals of recent United States history. Both films focus on characters to whom the audience can relate, and draw sympathy for the characters and interest in the story by choosing popular leading male actors who are both physically attractive and charismatic...

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They called Andrew Jackson "the people's president" because he was born and raised like most common people of his time. ... Andrew Jackson made quick decisions in tough times, even when he knew they were not popular. ...

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He apologized to the nation for his actions and continued to have popular ratings as a president. ... He attended three of America's most prestigious and expensive institutions of higher learning. ...

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This plan calls for more local and parental control of schools, an emphasis on teaching methods and work, more accountability to educational results, and most importantly the funding to achieve these goals. ... Based on my observances from the popular show, "Street Smarts", the American population is very dumb. ... This ignorance even extends to politicians, Senator Tom Daschle is quoted as saying that, "Through a combination of wrongheaded fiscal policy and tentative economic leadership, we have now suffered one of the most dramatic fiscal turnarounds in American history" (G.O.P.). ...

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The fact remained after the legal wrangling and the disputes over ballot papers, that George Bush had gained almost half a million less popular votes than Al Gore. ... The last time this happened in an election was in 1888 when Grover Cleveland won without the popular vote. ... Al Gore, again, was expected to crush Bush as his knowledge of foreign policy, like most things was intimidating. ...

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Outside of the South the campaign for direct primary elections was an important ingredient in the Progressive movement, and it represented a direct challenge to the conservative political leaders who dominated one or both parties in most states. ... Within five years similar laws had been adopted in most of the plains and western states where the Progressive movement was strong, and by 1917 the direct primary had been adopted in all but a handful of states. (93) Most of the states that were slow to adopt the primary or did not use it consistently were eastern or midwestern states with relat...

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Almost every American of a certain age remembers where they were when JFK was assassinated.2 The death of JFK impacted the media, the government and the American society the most. ... Journalists from all over the country arrived in Dallas to cover the story as it the most controversial murder investigation of the 20th century. ... One of the major and most important thing after JKF died, was the trust people had in the government. ... Kennedy was becoming a popular politician. ... The people that was the most shocked was the students, as they were in school when their teachers broke the ne...

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