Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College. — Thomas E. Mann
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. — Ken Blackwell
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. — Kenneth Blackwell
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. — Ed Gillespie
A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. — Leopoldo Lopez
A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. — Lyn Nofziger
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought. — Jeff Greenfield
The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate. — Thomas Jefferson
Elected officials shouldn’t get to choose who gets to choose elected officials. — Lewis Black
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush. — George Galloway
The majority of American voters have rejected both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. — Jill Stein
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. — Gouverneur Morris
Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him. — Che Guevara
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate. — Arlen Specter
Short Electoral College Quotes
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. — George Bernard Shaw
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. — Tom Stoppard
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. — H. L. Mencken
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. — Thomas Jefferson
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vote early and vote often. — William Porcher Miles
It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. — Nicola Sturgeon
Voting is a civic sacrament. — Theodore Hesburgh
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. — James Buchanan
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Presidential Election Quotes
Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections. — Julius Nyerere
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. — Donald Trump
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. — Barack Obama
The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him. — Alexei Navalny
When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote. — Alexei Navalny
American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump. — Tucker Carlson
President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. — Rick Santorum
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history. — Mark Shields
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. — Bradley Whitford
100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election. — Patience Jonathan
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history. — Juan Williams
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case. — Gene Green
I ran for the electoral college. I didn't run for the popular vote. — Donald Trump
I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college. — Donald Trump
The primary purpose of the Electoral College is to maintain the power of the states and to support the idea that the election is decided by the states. It's not decided by the general population, and it never was. — Rush Limbaugh
I never stop running. I'm not one of the weenies who drop out just because the electoral college votes. I'm still in the race. I'm an extremely corrupt candidate and I stress that in case anybody in our reading audience is interested in sending me money. — Dave Barry
I put it out before the American people, got 306 electoral college votes…270 which you need, that was laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before so that’s the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan. — Donald Trump
The Electoral College has been with us since the first days of America. — Rush Limbaugh
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
This is exactly why the Electoral College is set up the way it is, so that one state would not elect the president. — Rush Limbaugh
Campaigns are conducted specifically because of the Electoral College, and people accept it and they understand it. Whether they know it or not, they accept it. — Rush Limbaugh
The Electoral College protects state sovereignty. It actually is one of the most brilliantly conceived electoral mechanisms ever. — Rush Limbaugh
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College. — Al Gore
Even without voting, illegal aliens do affect who gets elected president, and that's since the Electoral College elects the president, and the states are given 80% of their electoral votes based on their population, whether they include illegals or not, is the assessment that that is how they affect elections. — Rush Limbaugh
The Democrat Party, particularly with demographic shifts taking, would love to get rid of the Electoral College. — Rush Limbaugh
I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law. — David Remnick
You can't understand the Electoral College unless you know what federalism is, and federalism is one of these terms that, in many cases, means the exact opposite of the word as it's currently applied. — Rush Limbaugh
I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy. — Moby
If I had lost the popular vote but won the electoral college and in my first day as president the intelligence community came to me and said, "The Russians influenced the election," I would've never stood for it. Even though it might've advantaged me, I would've said, "We've got to get to the bottom of this." I would've set up an independent commission with subpoena power and everything else. — Hillary Clinton
Other than they may or may not have discussed the relative merits of the Electoral College vs. the popular vote, what I am told by sources close to Al Gore is that this was at the instigation of Ivanka Trump, that she reached out to the former vice president recently to discuss climate change, and that he was really impressed with the way she was thinking about the issue, framing the issue. — Karen Tumulty
The way the electoral college works, the way the states have kind of sorted themselves out in such a way that most states, the conclusion is foregone and there's no reason for the candidate to be there and for that reason, for that same, because of those same dynamics there's no reason for the journalist to be there combing the opinions of voters there because we know that California's gonna vote Democratic. — Frank Bruni
The presidential campaign was oriented toward the way we elect the presidency, Electoral College, not the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't matter. This is not a direct democracy. We have a representative republic, and the popular vote doesn't matter and it never has, by design. — Rush Limbaugh
There is a route to the presidency in this country, and it's called the Electoral College, and both candidates base their campaigns on winning the Electoral College, not the popular vote. And in that pursuit, Donald Trump won in a landslide or near landslide. And in that pursuit, Barack Obama and his agenda was repudiated. And not just this year. In the 2010 midterms, the 2014 midterms, and this election. — Rush Limbaugh
I think it's particularly raw coming the day after the Electoral College, and Bill Clinton, he's taking this hard. It's been very hard to him. He thought his wife was gonna win. He believed she should have won. I think he believes, basically, it was an unfair result. — David Gergen
Donald Trump won the election by three million votes, if you throw out California and New York. You throw out California, New York, Trump wins by three million votes. If you include California and New York Hillary wins by, what was it, 2.5 or 2.2 million votes. It's a perfect illustration of why we have the Electoral College. — Rush Limbaugh
Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has studied Hitler and Lenin and a lot of people who have seized power and unleashed blitzkriegs from above and created tiny cabals of power concentrated in a tiny group at the top. That's what authoritarians do. It's right out of the playbook. — Van Jones
If we didn't have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it. — Rush Limbaugh
The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them. — Jason Chaffetz
Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems. — Noam Chomsky
The Electoral College is justified and right. — Rush Limbaugh
The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty. — Rush Limbaugh
My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote their conscience, and if their conscience leads them that way, they should follow their conscience. — Barbara Boxer
Democrats came into the race with a structural advantage in the Electoral College. Their big blue wall - the states that Democrats have won in the past six presidential elections - gave [Hillary] Clinton a strong base to build on. — Mara Liasson
White voters were 72 percent of the electorate in 2012, and their share of the population has shrunk a couple points since then. [Donald] Trump has had trouble winning certain segments of the white vote, such as suburban women and college-educated voters. — Mara Liasson
Some countries have a parliamentary republic, some are presidential republics and some are still monarchies, but no one sees them as not being democratic. In some countries regional leaders are appointed from the centre and in others they are elected. In Russia, the president is elected through direct secret ballot, and in the United States, the president is elected through a system of electoral colleges. — Vladimir Putin
Hillary Clinton began a New York thank-you tour Friday by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. No wonder Arkansas never liked her. She hasn't been in office three days and already she's an abolitionist. — Argus Hamilton
US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed. — Roseanne Barr
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
Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes. — John Ridley
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