Popular Vote Quotes

• The lesser of two evils is still evil.

  Solomon

  Two, Evil, Voting

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• If I was going for the popular vote I would've won easily. But I would've been in California and New York. I wouldn't have been in Maine. I wouldn't have been in Iowa. I wouldn't have been in Nebraska and all of those states that I had to win in order to win this. I would've been in New York, I would've been in California. I never even went there.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Winning, Order

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

  Thomas E. Mann

  College, President, Members

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• What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

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• Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Years, Iraq

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• If the popular vote elected the president today, two states - California and New York - would be all you would need. And that means campaigns would occur only there and campaigns would focus only on issues relevant to those people in those states.

  Rush Limbaugh

  New York, Mean, Two

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes

  Robert A. Dahl

  Vote, Proportion

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• Donald Trump winning the electoral vote - I don't even want to say he won the election because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote - I don't think legitimizes reality TV, but I think reality TV legitimized Trump.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Thinking, Winning, Reality

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.

  Willie Parker

  Mean, College, Law

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sovereign, Vote, Popularity

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.

  Steve Inskeep

  Two, Election, Clinton

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

  Michael Moore

  Florida, Vote, Knows

  "BuzzFlash Interviews Michael Moore". March 13, 2002.

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• It took a course from me for the Democratic leadership to realize we have an electoral college. 'But we got the popular vote!' Well you can take the MTA from Dorchester to Brookline. That's how far it'll get you.

  Ira Carmen

  Leadership, College, Realizing

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• Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.

  Draymond Green

  Winning, Player, Years

  "Warriors’ Green second in Defensive Player voting". www.eastbaytimes.com. April 23, 2015.

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• Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.

  Al Franken

  Believe, College, President

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.9, Penguin

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• It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.

  Cory Booker

  Gay, Simple, Class

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• The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

  Bill Pullman

  Political, Want, Bigs

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

  Milos Zeman

  Voice, Promise, Trying

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• If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.

  Garry McCarthy

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

  Tony Snow

  Years, Mold, Popular Song

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• We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judging, Political, Way

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Minorities, Tiny, Despised

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• Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Government, Peaceful

  Ernesto Guevara, Brian Loveman, Thomas M. Davies (1985). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Law, Public Opinion

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.195, University of Georgia Press

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• Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed to win minority governments with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote.

  Linda McQuaig

  Party, Winning, Government

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