Neither of those moves affected the overall electoral vote count in the CNN estimate.
R. was elected President, defeating the incumbent by a record-breaking electoral vote: 472 to 59.
Further, people will flow among and between the states, changing their electoral vote power.
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Other GOP-controlled state legislatures reportedly contemplating changes to their electoral vote allocation include Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.
Obama ended up taking Florida and won the election by a wide margin in the electoral vote.
Winning the presidency requires a majority of the electoral vote, regardless of who wins the popular vote.
In a popular vote, every American's vote counts, but in an electoral vote, your vote can be voided.
C. elector Barbara Lett-Simmons abstained from casting her electoral vote as a protest against the District's lack of voting representation in Congress.
Similarly in the election for president, the Constitution provides for a popular vote for the people, but an electoral vote by state.
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He graciously said that he wanted this to be the... (interrupted by applause as someone showed him a map of the electoral vote).
When November came, Gore won the popular vote, but, following a series of lawsuits and countersuits that went to the Supreme Court, lost the electoral vote.
In Maine, for example, Kerry is likely to win the electoral vote for the first congressional district while President Bush is expected to win the vote for the second district.
Although Maine and Nebraska never actually split their electoral votes until Nebraska in 2008, one could readily imagine how this kind of split electoral vote could make a big difference in contested battleground states.
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"Close elections would likely always result in extensive recounts, we could see huge disparities between the popular and electoral vote, and the partisan motive behind it would be transparent, " he wrote Friday on the group's website.
It cited a similar push for change after the 2000 election, when Democratic Vice President Al Gore won the national popular vote but lost the electoral vote, and therefore the decision, to Republican George W. Bush.
Both campaigns know that just a single electoral vote could play a decisive role in what's expected to be a historically close race, and that makes what happens in the event of an Electoral College tie all the more intriguing.
And Democrats, still hurting from 2000 when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote, have been championing a National Popular Vote that would, as a practical matter, do away with the Electoral College and its impact.
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It was in 2004 that Colorado Democrats recognized that they could take a major step towards locking in the state for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry if they could succeed in scraping their own winner-take-all system and bring proportional representation to the electoral vote in Colorado.
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Instead they are pushing states to adopt a system that is now in effect in Nebraska and Maine, where one electoral vote is awarded to the winner of each congressional district (and the state's at-large-vote winner receives two additional electoral votes, corresponding to the state's two senators.) In Minnesota, for instance, Gore won the state's ten electoral votes.
Maine and Nebraska already have provisions that award electoral votes based on who wins each congressional district. (And each state's at-large vote-winner receives two additional electoral votes, corresponding to the state's two U.S. senators.) In this instance, Kerry could win Maine, but if he lost in one of the state's congressional districts, Bush would get that electoral vote.
We should look more deeply at the claim that the Electoral College is undemocratic and the desirability of an alternative the National Popular Vote bill that is likely to be pressed upon us if this close election ends up in any kind of controversy, including a candidate who wins the popular vote and loses the electoral vote, or a major recount, or the highly unlikely tie vote.
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In no case did any state that does not tax personal income lose a single Electoral College vote.
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But Ohio only matters if the Electoral College vote is close enough for Ohio to decide the winner.
The incumbent Bush won the Electoral College vote 292 to 252 and racked up 3 million more votes than Kerry nationwide.
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Incumbent President George W. Bush won the Electoral College vote 292 to 252 and racked up 3 million more votes than Kerry.
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There have been rumors that Romney is interested in asking Senator Marco Rubio from the electoral-vote rich swing state of Florida and conservatives would cheer that decision.
The electoral college vote takes place a few days later, Dec. 18, leading some observers to wonder whether the current battle could drag into that period.
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There has been a sharp rise in electoral challenges since then and, with the polls showing the Obama-Romney race very tight in both popular and electoral votes, the specter of election recounts, or even an electoral tie vote has arisen.
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Until a few weeks ago, Mr McCain could depend on this 27-vote electoral treasure.
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