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Is there an "Everything you need to know about Today's news" type website?
A site you can go to that has the summaries of the most important news of the day?
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Google News aggregates news from many popular sources, it's exactly what you're looking for.
http://www.google.com/news
Google News aggregates news from many popular sources, it's exactly what you're looking for.
http://www.google.com/news
What is popular vote?
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It is the "consolidation" by the news media of all the votes cast as if from a single election. In reality, there is no "nationwide popular vote".
The thing is, there is no "single nationwide election" but separate elections held by individual states on the same day.
State elections are won by a "popular vote". All the Electoral College does is report to Congress which candidate was the most popular in each state, but the "reporting" is weighted by population with very populated states having far more "reporters" than small states.
Under a "republican form of government" as promised by the Constitution, ideally the President of all the States should be elected by a majority of states. The populations of the states should not matter as a majority of the "consolidated" population can come from from a very small minority of states in our Republic.
You should know the Constitution sets forth a backup procedure for electing a President if no winner can be determined from the results on election day. That procedure allows only one "vote" per state, regardless of the population, and a state gets a vote only if a clear winner emerges from the ballots cast by their House of Representatives delegation. If the delegation's ballots result in a tie, the state gets no vote under the assumption that at least half the people of the state will be happy with the final outcome.
It is the "consolidation" by the news media of all the votes cast as if from a single election. In reality, there is no "nationwide popular vote".
The thing is, there is no "single nationwide election" but separate elections held by individual states on the same day.
State elections are won by a "popular vote". All the Electoral College does is report to Congress which candidate was the most popular in each state, but the "reporting" is weighted by population with very populated states having far more "reporters" than small states.
Under a "republican form of government" as promised by the Constitution, ideally the President of all the States should be elected by a majority of states. The populations of the states should not matter as a majority of the "consolidated" population can come from from a very small minority of states in our Republic.
You should know the Constitution sets forth a backup procedure for electing a President if no winner can be determined from the results on election day. That procedure allows only one "vote" per state, regardless of the population, and a state gets a vote only if a clear winner emerges from the ballots cast by their House of Representatives delegation. If the delegation's ballots result in a tie, the state gets no vote under the assumption that at least half the people of the state will be happy with the final outcome.
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