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Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.


Ron Fournier


#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.


George Galloway


#clear #college #delivering #electoral #electoral college

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


Thomas E. Mann


#direct #elected #electoral #electoral college #members

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.


John Podhoretz


#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.


Perry Christie


#country #electoral #experience #governance #i

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.


Theodore White


#become #beginning #corps #correspondents #days

I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I think, what is it to any independent, intellegent, and respectable man what decision they may come to? Shall we not have the advantage of his wisdom and honesty, nevertheless? Can we not count upon some independent votes? Are there not many individuals in the country who do not attend conventions? But no: I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidates thus selected as his only AVAILABLE one, thus proving that he is himself AVAILABLE for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.


Henry David Thoreau


#independence #independent-vote #politicians #politics #presidency

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all.


Michael Bloomberg


#absolutely #absolutely nothing #candidate #checked #college

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


Robert A. Dahl


#electoral #popular #proportion #require #votes

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.


Roy Jenkins


#because #disadvantage #electoral #everyone #freezes






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