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Washington – 10 August 2024
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Washington – 19 March 2024
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Washington – 7 January 2021
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Lincoln, Nebraska – 14 April 2020
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New Gloucester, Maine – 8 November 2022
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, The Associated Press:
“So in the United States, we actually select the president based on the outcome of the Electoral College vote. That is a vote of 538 electors, that are decided or that number comes from the number of members of Congress, you know, 435 members of the House, 100 senators. And then three Electoral College votes that come from the District of Columbia. This system actually came out of a compromise from the Constitutional convention, that the framers were mediating between a group who wanted that the national popular vote would decide who was the winner of the presidency, and a group on the other that wanted Congress to be able to picked the presidency. Instead, we have kind of this hybrid system and out of that came the Electoral College. This differs from a lot of countries around the world where the winner of the presidency is the candidate who got the most votes nationally. You can actually have situations in the United States where, you know, you can win the popular vote but not become the president, or win the presidency. We actually had that outcome in 2016 where former President Donald Trump lost the popular vote but became president because of the Electoral College system. In the electoral college system, you often hear about this number of 270. That is the key number. That’s the number that you need to get to be able to win the presidency. And those votes come from electors that are selected by the popular votes in the individual states. So, across the country, you actually have all but two states where, the winner of the state will receive all of the Electoral College votes in that state. There are two states, Maine and Nebraska, where they split their Electoral College votes. They have some of the Electoral College votes that come from the winner of the statewide vote, and then some of the other votes in their state that are decided by the winner in each individual congressional district.”
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STORYLINE:
In the United States, we actually select the president based on the outcome of the Electoral College vote.
That is a vote of 538 electors, that are decided or that number comes from the number of members of Congress, you know, 435 members of the House, 100 senators.
And then three electoral college votes that come from the District of Columbia.
This differs from a lot of countries around the world where the winner of the presidency is the candidate who got the most votes nationally.
You can actually have situations in the United States where, you know, you can win the popular vote but not become the president, or win the presidency.
In the electoral college. system, you often hear about this number of 270.
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