His upbringing had been comfortably middle-class: a Calcutta doctor's son, St Xavier's, Presidency College, studies for the bar in London.

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Bush won the Electoral College, and thereby the presidency, by 5 electoral votes.

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The candidate who wins in Florida will pick up all of its 25 college votes - enough to clinch the presidency.

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Markets and the Electoral College told the truth about an economy and presidency that the media regularly tried to cast in a negative light.

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After all, critics complain, Al Gore won the popular vote, but Bush won the presidency because he had a narrow victory in the Electoral College.

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Shortly before Obama won the Presidency, Ginni Thomas took a position in Washington, with Hillsdale College, a small, liberal-arts institution in rural Michigan.

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The new electoral college will also meet annually - rather than once every five years as mandated under Suharto's presidency - to hear the president's accountability speech (like a state-of-the-nation address) and, it is expected, evaluate the government's performance.

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