Popular Vote Quotes

• The lesser of two evils is still evil.

  Solomon

  Two, Evil, Voting

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [Donald] Trump appears to be searching for an enemy. Is it flag burners, recounts, the press, the popular vote? Trump has gone after them all at times, using wild experience theories even as president-elect to do it.

  Chuck Todd

  Enemy, President, Flags

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote.

  Chuck Todd

  Crazy, Self, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, you now have Republicans in charge of the White House, the Congress, a majority of governors, more governors than they've had in 100 years, more state houses than they've ever had before.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Years, White, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better.

  Chuck Todd

  President, Not Happy, Lost

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Hillary Clinton`s popular vote lead is now up to 2.3 million votes, but get this, [Donald] Trump`s percentage of the popular vote has now dropped to 46.4 percent.

  Chuck Todd

  Clinton, Trump, Percentages

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular vote. Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Richard Nixon in 1968, and Bill Clinton in 1992.

  Chuck Todd

  White, House, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Party, Believe, Men

  Source: m.motherjones.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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• The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.

  William Kristol

  Obamacare, White, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [The Democrats] are sitting there thinking they really won. They won the popular vote. "We're only talking about this election Kellyanne [Conway]. You don't have a mandate, you don't have a mandate."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Talking, Sitting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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.

  Kellyanne Conway

  College, Differences, Clinton

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Such a closely divided election; Secretary [Hillary] Clinton won the popular votes.Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin - about 112,000 votes separated the two candidates as well.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Two, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It's very much in our interest to unite [with Bernie Sanders] as quickly as possible to begin the campaign against Donald Trump. And I think the facts really speak for themselves. I have a won a big majority of the popular vote of the states, of pledged delegates, and we want to go forward in a positive and unified way.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Campaigns, Want

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Y'know, I realize that George W. Bush is an asshole, but don't judge all us yankees by the actions of our government. Remember, he didn't win the popular vote so it's not entirely our fault!

  Chris Shiflett

  Winning, Yankees, Government

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