Electoral College Quotes
Electoral College Quote of the day
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.
This is exactly why the Electoral College is set up the way it is, so that one state would not elect the president.
The Electoral College protects state sovereignty. It actually is one of the most brilliantly conceived electoral mechanisms ever.
I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college.
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.
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.
I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.
The Democrat Party, particularly with demographic shifts taking, would love to get rid of the Electoral College.
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.
The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.
US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.
Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.
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.
No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College.
