Most importantly, those who agree with preserving the Electoral College believe that election by popular vote, the alternative to the college, would create numerous deficiencies in the system. ... "The Electoral College system, it is claimed, does not guarantee that the candidate with the most popular votes will win. ... Election by popular vote is much more accurate of an election than the Electoral College. ... Most importantly, election by popular vote permits the citizens to take part in their government denied to them by the existence of the Electoral College. ... The United States has ...

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This plan was brought about to ensure that the most qualified person, not necessarily the most popular, would be selected by groups of electors, representing their states but also expressing their personal convictions. ... Most people believe that the only way to change the voting system is to pass an amendment to the constitution. ... In this method the states hold a popular election and the electoral votes are allocated by percentage. ... In a worse case scenario, a president can be elected with a minimum of 42% of the popular vote. ... I also believe that a majority of electors should n...

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One of the most misunderstood aspects of the Presidential election process is the electoral college. ... The Presidential candidate team who earns the most electoral votes will be named the next President and Vice President of the United States, even if the popular vote swings in the opposite direction of the Electoral College vote. ... All states, aside from Maine and Nebraska, hold to a "popular vote" / "electoral vote" bond. This bond states that the state will offer their electoral votes to the candidates who win the popular vote. ... Due to recent troubles with the electoral college...

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The Electoral College nullifies the value of the democratic popular vote by conferring the power of the presidency to the candidate who accumulates 270 of the State apportioned Electoral College votes. ... In the Electoral College system each state is given a number of votes apportioned by their representation in congress, one for each member of the Senate and House, in most cases to be cast by electors as a lump sum all to the winner of the popular vote in their respective state. ... Most importantly the noted difficulty of amending the Constitution, which is the only way to permanently insti...

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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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How can there be a president without reflecting the popular will of the nation at large? ... It has occasionally allowed a candidate receiving fewer popular votes to win an election. There have been as many as four presidential candidates who won the popular votes [as recent as 2000], but lost the election because they received fewer electoral votes. ... The candidate who receives the most votes nationwide would win the election. ... Instead, they spend most of their time and money in a few tightly contested states, ignoring most of the other states [California, for example]. ...

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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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Olive Tree consists of the Democrats of the Left, the Greens, and the Italian Popular Party. ... The two most popular parties that aren't with the Olive Tree or the House of Freedom movement are the Northern League, and the Communist Refoundation. ...

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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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Most recently, Gore has served as Vice President of the United States under the Clinton administration, for the past eight years when America has seen an extremely prosperous economy. ... While the Gore campaign did not focus enough on the positive qualities of Al Gore, they did successfully win the popular vote and many of the states that were battle ground states, such as Missouri and Pennsylvania and possibly Florida. ... (McDonald, p1) Also, the endorsement and high turn-out of the labor unions, the millions of dollars spent by independent organizations running commercials and ads in areas...

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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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The range of independence held by states is a very disputable question which historically raised many conflicts (the most vivid being the American Civil War). ... However this method of judge selection doesn't seem very popular, 28 states authorize governor to appoint judges to fill mid-term vacancies. ... Merit selection is the most professional and just way of choosing a judge in a state court system. ... Merit selection promotes candidates that are the most professional, experienced and trust-worthy. ... As far as appointment method is concerned, candidates who are popular, well-connec...

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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 most notable effect, the gridlock experienced by our government officials when the two coteries are at an impasse, results in a compromise, but one that does not always manifest itself quickly or politely. This gridlock occurs most frequently when one faction's impression of the other party's intentions and desired outcome based on dissenting points of interest. ... Can popular government be sustained despite the continuation of war by other means, that is, the critical difference of interest? If our elected officials are able to put the labels (Democrat and Republican) aside and...

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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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Firstly, the industry assumes that they are welcomed in these developing nations, where for the most part they are resented by the majority of the people. ... By exposing Indians to this globalized food culture they have drawn Indians away from their own heritage to a more generic "popular" culture. ...

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He also put the national armories into full production, preparing the nation for the most extreme scenario of full-scale civil war. Though these actions were bold and for the most part unprecedented on the part of a president of the United States, Lincoln was definitely thinking through his actions. ... To win the war, President Lincoln had to have popular support. ...

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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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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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