Since 1824, when John Quincy Adams was elected president by the House of Representatives when no candidate had a majority in the electoral college (Adams' leading opponent, Andrew Jackson, had greater popular and electoral vote totals), the electoral-college system has many times permitted a presi...
Currently, as an American voter, when you vote in a presidential election, you are actuallynotdirectly voting for the candidate you support. Rather, you are voting for which group of electors you wish to have represent your state (or District) in the Electoral College. After you and your f...
As with other popular voting systems, it was designed to fail, with weak questions being voted up while tough questions (such as the ones I submitted) languishing or being voted down (my vote totals at that link). What might have worked is if people had submitted only a small number of...
For example, in the first table, the first column tells you that 60% did not think Palin was qualified to be President, and that, of those 60%, 82% voted for Obama. On some tables I've put share of vote swings and Obama vote swings, all against the 2004 election. There is a ...
The #1 fastest growing website, cherrycreekschools.org, was for a school district that was asking citizens to vote to approve a bond measure in August to support capital improvements. July 2024 For the second month in a row, sports websites are at the top of our fastest-growing ...
2020 Democratic Primary Race: What’s The Current Delegate Count & Popular Vote Totals? by Anacaona Rodriguez MartinezFebruary 25, 2020, 2:14 pmDaily Digest, News, News Feed Here’s an in-depth look from uPolitics.com on the 2020 election results for pledged delegates to the 2020 D...
Sources: Electoral and popular vote totals based on data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives; the United States Office of the Federal Register; the Federal Election Commission; Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections, 4th ed. (2001); and the official...
United States presidential election of 1824 was an American presidential election held in 1824, in which John Quincy Adams was elected by the House of Representatives after Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes but failed to receive a m