“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.” BelieveSaidPresidentCollegeVoteTrialsChosenAlsBelieve In GodGoreElectoral CollegePopular Vote Book:Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them Source: Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
“People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy.” PeopleThinkingWantSeemsEconomyCollegeVoteRaisesCaringRidiculousEducatedWelfareGasGas PricesEverymanStop Caring Author:Shia LaBeouf
“Democrats have been doing everything they can to get young people and college students to vote in the midterms. Though if you want students to participate in something, maybe you shouldn't call them midterms.” PeopleIfsWantHas BeensYoungStudentsCollegeVoteDemocratCollege StudentsMidterms Author:Jimmy Fallon
“They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity.” TurnsOpportunityWhiteLandCollegeVoteJewCaliforniaGraduatesAmerican PoliticsMexicanWeepingMillionaireCollege GraduatesTheodoreLand Of Opportunity Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.” PeopleYearsCollegeVoteFreshman Author:Woody Harrelson
“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.” CareAsksCollegeVoteDon't CareElectoral College Author:John Ridley
“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.” StillsRunningReadingRaceCasesAudienceCollegeVoteStressCandidatesElectoral College Author:Dave Barry
“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.” WellsCoursesRealizingLeadershipCollegeVoteDemocraticElectoral CollegePopular VoteDemocratic Leadership Author:Ira Carmen
“US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.” NeedsCollegeVoteElectionElectoral College Author:Roseanne Barr
“I think Democrats ought to be concerned, that the party has become almost prideful about the college-educated vote that it's getting, the support that Hillary Clinton is getting against Donald Trump.” ThinkingPartySupportCollegeOughtTrumpConcernedVoteClintonDemocratEducated Author:Mark Shields
“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.” CertainWinningWhiteTroubleShareCollegeTrumpCouplePercentVotePopulationEducatedVotersElectorateEducated Voters Author:Mara Liasson
“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.” IfsWayWantShouldUnderstandingCollegeConscienceVoteRight To VoteElectoral College Author:Barbara Boxer
“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.” DifferencesCollegeTrumpVoteClintonElectoral CollegePopular Vote Author:Kellyanne Conway
“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.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz
“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.” ShouldMeanDoeLawNationsCan DoConsciousnessIssuesLandWorstCollegeTrumpVoteElectionMajorityAssumingClintonPlanningAbortionVotingPrivacyWorst ThingsMandatesPreventionContraceptionFamily PlanningHealth IssuesElectoral CollegePopular Vote Author:Willie Parker
“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.” StatesGivenPresidentCollegeVoteElectionPopulationAliensVotingIllegalAssessmentIllegal AliensElectoral College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college.” WinningOpinionCollegeEasierVoteElectoral CollegePopular Vote Author:Donald Trump