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Nov 3, 2020 · According to the Federal Election Commission's report on the 2016 election, there were 136,669,276 votes cast, so this translates to ~23.5 million in-person early votes, ~32.4 million by-mail absentee votes, and a total of ~56.4 million votes being cast before Election Day.
More interestingly, as the article's title suggests, the sensitivity of the result to the national popular vote changes dramatically in the two methods, and in 2016, not in Clinton's favor (though 538 is wise enough, as usual, to note that this is specific to 2016 and you can't and shouldn't draw generic parallels to 2020 etc..) - to wit, if all states were allocating electors proportionally ...
Nov 26, 2020 · Seven electors voted for a candidate other than the one they pledged to vote for. Three voted for Colin Powell, one for John Kasich, one for Ron Paul, one for Bernie Sanders, and one for Faith Spotted Eagle. The FEC's report on the 2016 election contains the map below showing which state these electors were from; Texas, Washington, and Hawaii.
Nov 11, 2020 · But as the Republican story goes, the mainstream media was so wrong at predicting the winner of the 2016 election that the Democrats felt that the election was somehow illegitimate or stolen. And that by constantly bringing up new scandals and investigating Trump for what Republicans perceive as either made-up or comparatively minor offenses, they effectively forced President Trump to spend ...
Nov 9, 2016 · 21. No, they are not legally binding. In 2000, Al Gore conceded to George W. Bush but later withdrew it. This had no legal effect on the subsequent court cases, several of which Gore won (although the attention is mostly on the final one, which he lost). A concession is a political speech. It is not a legal statement. Share. Improve this answer.
Dec 11, 2020 · 14. The Constitution provides no mechanism for a re-vote of the Presidential election. However, it does provide three mechanisms by which a rigged election can be over-ridden. The Electoral College can collectively ignore the election outcome. Electors are nominally pledged to vote for a given candidate, but if enough of them act as faithless ...
Aug 4, 2020 · State-level result data from here shows that the top five states by percentage of third-party votes in the 2016 presidential election were Utah, Idaho, Vermont, Alaska, and New Mexico, with 27%, 13.25%, 13.05%, 12.17%, and 11.7% respectively. Below is a map showing the rest of the states - you'll probably have to zoom in to read the labels.
Aug 21, 2024 · The 2020 election's record-setting turnout amid the COVID-19 pandemic also complicated pollsters' efforts to get a read on just who was most likely to vote, as states expanded mail-in voting and Trump's presidency likely motivated higher turnout among both supporters and opponents.
Afterwards, the states settled into Republican and Democrat states. If you lived in a Republican state why bother voting? The Republican would win in the end. And vice versa for the Democrat states. Turnout only matters in "swing" states, where the result can go either way. And in some years, it doesn't even matter there.
Oct 30, 2016 · Most of the polling for the 2016 US presidential election have been favourable to Hillary Clinton. One of the biggest questions I have right now is whether the polling is accurate. In particular, whether people are hiding the fact they intend to vote for Trump when polled for it.
