Electoral College Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, People, Campaigns

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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

  College, Care, Vote

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I put it out before the American people, got 306 electoral college votes…270 which you need, that was laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before so that’s the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, College, People

  "Here Are Your Highlights of Today’s Trump Press Meltdown" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. February 16, 2017.

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• If we didn't have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Aftermath, Rage And Anger

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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

  College, Popular Vote, Differences

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Electoral College is justified and right.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Justified

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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

  Mean, College, Democracy

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  College, Assessment, Voting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.

  Willie Parker

  Mean, College, Law

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, College, Popular Vote

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

  Noam Chomsky

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  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• The Electoral College is a project that calls on their judgment. If we don't like it, we can talk about how to eliminate it. I'm not quite convinced we should eliminate it completely. I think it's important to have a final check be somebody other than the Supreme Court. But given that it's there, we should take it seriously. And taking it seriously says they should exercise their judgment according to the moral values, the principles that are part of our constitutional tradition today. And those principles say equality.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Exercise, College, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Friday, New York, College

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• 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

  Running, Stress, Reading

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has studied Hitler and Lenin and a lot of people who have seized power and unleashed blitzkriegs from above and created tiny cabals of power concentrated in a tiny group at the top. That's what authoritarians do. It's right out of the playbook.

  Van Jones

  College, People, Tiny

  Source: pen.org

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• Jeremy Corbyn couldn't have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the electoral college that had given MPs a third of the say over who leads the party. That's why Diane Abbott came last when she ran for leader in 2010, even though in the absolute number of votes she came third out of five. It's one of those wonderful historical ironies that the change to the rules was a victory for the Labour right, the result of a push back against the unions who had been asserting themselves more forcefully within the party.

  Alex Nunns

  Party, College, Mps

  Source: salvage.zone

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• 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

  Strong, Wall, Past

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Team, College, Winning

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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

  Leadership, College, Popular Vote

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• 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

  Winning, College, Swings

  "Nate Silver Took A Huge Shot Against Mainstream Political Pundits In His Latest Election Forecast" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 3, 2012.

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