Electoral college Quote by Bill Nye The Science Guy Download Open image “A hand job is more satisfying than The Electoral College.” — Bill Nye The Science Guy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Electoral college
The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand. — Ted Yoho Copy Share Image
Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The Framers of the Constitution expected the presidency to be occupied by special individuals, selfless people of the highest character and ability. They intended… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering.… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
What is the purpose of the electoral college? It has a few purposes. One, it's to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very important, that's… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
I don't think it's principled to give up on electoral victory to make ourselves feel good. — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
“For me, the most profound discovery ever made by us humans is this: You and I, and everything we can touch and see, are made of the same materials and driven by the same energy as everything else in the universe. We are one with each other, with our planet, and with the cosmos. We all resonate to the same… — Bill Nye The Science Guy Copy Share
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout… — Bill Nye The Science Guy Copy Share Image
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… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share
I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“A less well known impact of immigrant populations is the increase that destination states gain in Congress where apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is calculated on the basis of a state's entire adult population regardless of legal status. And, because each state's electoral college vote is the sum of the number of its representatives in the House… — Edward S. Greenberg Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Karen Tumulty Copy Share
“How we react to the presidency of Donald Trump will be the first test of our preparedness. His administration in its infancy is already… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“learned two things from the students. One was that they disliked identity politics. They thought that Hillary spent too much time trying to appeal to people based on their race, or their gender, or their sexual orientation, and not enough time appealing to people based on what really worried them—issues like income inequality and climate change. The other takeaway was… — Donna Brazile Copy Share
America voted Romney. Electoral college voted Obama. Stop being ignorant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While imperfect, the electoral college has generally served the republic well. It forces candidates to campaign in a variety of closely contested races, where… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
In the 2012 election, the polls that had made Mitt Romney so confident that he was going to win were his own internal polls,… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states. — Patrick Murphy Copy Share Image
