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...to parties’ electoral coalitions....
...Winners and losers After recent electoral successes for the hard right in Finland, Italy and Sweden, and evidence of rising popular support for parties of this type in Austria and Germany, many commentators...
...Additionally, the INE’s directors, as well as judges on the electoral tribunal, would be selected by a popular vote, instead of being appointed by congress....
...And remember, the electoral college, this terrible anachronism that has caused people like me who win the popular vote not to be president. But that's beside the point. So think about this....
...But it’s not a surprise because it’s been building up for a while,” says Maria-Elena Lopez, the acting chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic party....
...Also targeted were Luciano Hang, a prominent billionaire supporter of Bolsonaro, and Afrânio Barreira, owner of a popular restaurant chain....
...On the other, some countries are disfigured by democratic backsliding, degradation of the rule of law, deep-seated corruption, organised crime and a prickly variety of postcommunist nationalism....
...Mo’s political awakening led her to help found one of the city’s oldest and most popular opposition parties, the Civic party....
...The party was particularly popular in rural communities....
...Will Majority Leader McConnell stand up to Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley on January 6 2025, when they refuse to certify the Electoral College and popular vote re-election of President Biden?”...
...In the end, politics is about margins, and in presidential elections it is the electoral college, not the popular vote, that matters....
...But most of the core occupiers did not believe in traditional electoral politics. The whole point of Occupy Wall Street was to build something different....
...Much is made of the gap between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren on healthcare. That gulf is wide. But on cultural issues they are on the same page — as is every contender for the Democratic nomination....
...Then there are the metastasising quirks of America’s electoral college. Republican nominees, including Mr Trump, have won two out of the past five White House races having lost the popular vote....
...The action marks the latest probe into a US tech giant by the outgoing EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager and comes weeks after US president Donald Trump accused her of hating the US....
...A rule of thumb is that the Democrats will need a lead of at least seven points in the national popular vote to clinch the House, according to the Cook Political Report....
...It could be more limited — to unravel some of the less popular structural reforms introduced by the PD governments, and to change the electoral law to make it more likely that a clear winner emerges from...
...“The AfD . . . made democracy possible again,” he says. “We got rid of this logjam in our democratic process, this malfunction.”...
...The state with the most electoral votes is California, with 55, but there is little doubt about its allegiance: it is solidly Democratic. Can you win the popular vote and still lose the election?...
...wing of Mr Renzi’s Democratic party; as well as establishment icons such as Mario Monti, former EU commissioner....
...In the past, seats were allocated only from countrywide party lists according to the parties’ share of the popular vote....
...show him having the best shot of beating Hillary Clinton, assuming that the former secretary of state becomes the Democratic nominee....
...If the EU cannot do a deal with a socially democratic, English and French speaking nation (complete with preposterously popular refugee-welcoming, yoga-practising prime minister) without sparking protests...
...In 1992, the year George H W Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton, billionaire candidate Ross Perot won 18.9 per cent of the popular vote but no electoral votes....
...It is needy and unbecoming, like a wallflower clinging to the popular guy at a party. The neuroses show up in the Americanised language of Westminster and Fleet Street....
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