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...“He needs wins,” said Theresa Reidy, a senior politics lecturer at University College Cork. “Time is his biggest enemy.”...
...and better and better among skilled manual workers and voters without college degrees....
...Thus, sparsely populated Alaska has just three electoral college votes, while California has 54. There are 538 electoral votes up for grabs, with 270 needed to win....
...“Modi-ji is coming back again,” declared Sarita Singh, 48, a schoolteacher casting her ballot at a women’s college. “He is taking the country forward.”...
...“They have sliced the electorate along geographical and sociological units,” says Christophe Jaffrelot, a professor of political science at Sciences Po and King’s College London....
...The electoral college dramatically over-represents inhabitants of smaller states while the Senate is a huge source of unequal representation....
...The result marked the latest warning sign for Biden’s re-election campaign in a key battleground state — one whose 15 electoral college votes could be decisive in November....
...(Don’t forget that, while the younger Miliband won thanks to his strength in the trade union section of Labour’s old electoral college, the older Miliband was the preferred choice of Labour party members...
...After South Carolina’s primary, the next significant date on the electoral calendar will be Super Tuesday on March 5, when voters in more than a dozen states will head to the polls....
...The electoral importance of Pennsylvania is illustrated by the fact that Biden spent three days in the state this week....
...Joe Biden won in 2020 with over 5mn popular votes more than Trump and 302 electoral college votes. But if this is a rerun of 2020, will Biden repeat Clinton’s catastrophic blunder?...
...The electoral college is what it is, the swing states are what they are and the presidential election is this November. You’ve got to help us win Pennsylvania and Wisconsin or you’ll get Trump back....
...College victory....
...Khan, 71, was removed from office in a vote of no confidence in 2022 and jailed on corruption charges following a crackdown on his party, sidelining him from the electoral race....
...A fascinating recent study by Laurence Roope and Philip Clarke at Nuffield College — where, full disclosure, I am a visiting fellow — looked at the life expectancy of politicians as a broader gauge about...
...The numbers prompted hand-wringing among Democrats who have privately fretted about Biden’s age and apparent electoral weaknesses....
...Separate bids by Robert Kennedy Jr, or the scholar Cornel West, could also skew the electoral college in unpredictable ways....
...Electoral impact of the war: Pro-Palestinian firebrand George Galloway won a decisive victory in a UK by-election overnight in the northern seat of Rochdale. 4....
...In the three states that secured Biden an electoral college majority — Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin — his margin of victory was tiny, comprising fewer than 43,000 votes in total....
...But Pence famously broke with his boss on January 6 2021, when he refused to bend to Trump’s demands that he block the certification of Biden’s electoral college victory....
...That fails to acknowledge that both states are hugely diverse in terms of demographics and politics and that it is largely the winner-takes-all nature of the electoral college system that makes Texas go...
...“People have counted out Joe Biden many times, and that has been a mistake,” Cooper said on Tuesday, just before polls closed in Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio, where voters delivered big electoral victories...
...It is a rare politician who takes on a complex problem that offers little electoral dividend just ahead of an election they expect to lose....
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