Quotes About The Popular Vote

#1. Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.

Draymond Green

#2. Soon after George W. Bush took over the White House after losing the "popular vote" - which in other countries is called the "election" -

Carl Safina

#3. I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.

Thomas Middleditch

#4. Y'know, I realize that George W. Bush is an asshole, but don't judge all us yankees by the actions of our government. Remember, he didn't win the popular vote so it's not entirely our fault!

Chris Shiflett

#5. George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

Tony Snow

#6. Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

Jay Leno

#7. 'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.

Marvin Ammori

#8. Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed to win minority governments with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote.

Linda McQuaig

#9. The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Bill Pullman

#10. You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Michael Moore

#11. 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.

Ira Carmen

#12. I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

Milos Zeman

#13. Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Thomas E. Mann

#14. If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Tom Golisano

#15. The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.

Tom Golisano

#16. Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

A.E. Samaan

#17. Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn't win, but we got Prince and Princess.

Tom Lenk

#18. If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.

Garry McCarthy

#19. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

Timothy Noah

#21. We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

Michel De Montaigne

#22. When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Andrew Sullivan

#23. People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

Rand Paul

#24. How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY?

Christina Engela

#25. The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Solomon

#26. REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

Ambrose Bierce

#27. Wilkie got a bigger popular vote than FDR did, which of course meant nothing but it scared FDR. Hell,

Harry Homewood

#28. Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

William L. Shirer

#29. Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

Frank Chodorov

#30. You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.

James E. Rogers

#31. Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.

Che Guevara