Electoral And Popular Vote...How It Works


	Electoral And Popular Vote...How It Works

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11-3-2008 1:57 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f549e384-69e0-467c-9072-1ffd2165a447/47ED3CAA-7917-47AE-8C24-DB4535E00791/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college.htm" href="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">history.howstuffworks.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college.htm"><H1><SPAN class="articleTitle">How the Electoral College Works</SPAN></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college.htm"><H3>Inside this Article</H3>
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	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A class="on" href="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college.htm">Introduction to How the Electoral College Works</A></LI>
	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college1.htm">History of the Electoral College</A></LI>
	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college2.htm">Selecting Electors</A></LI>
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	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college3.htm">Electoral College Voting</A></LI>
	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college4.htm">Distribution of 2008 Electoral Votes</A></LI>
	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college5.htm">Electoral College Results</A></LI></OL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college.htm"><P>Every four years, on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November, millions of U.S. citizens go to local voting booths to elect, among other officials, the next president and vice president of their country. Their votes will be recorded and counted, and winners will be declared.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college.htm"><P>But the results of the popular vote are not guaranteed to stand because the Electoral College has not cast its vote.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college.htm"><P>For some of you, this might be a bit shocking. You could be thinking, "Whoa, seriously?" But for many of you, you're probably immediately thinking of the 2000 U.S. presidential election -- Gore won the popular vote (more Americans voted for him), but Bush actually won the presidency, because he was awarded the majority of the votes in the Electoral College.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/electoral-college.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/history.howstuffworks.com/img/DEDC249A-B942-4B10-9782-4EF6B8B20505" alt="george w. bush talking on a telephone" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/47ED3CAA-7917-47AE-8C24-DB4535E00791/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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