who was the only president to win all of the electoral college votes?
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It's never been done.  \nUlysses S. Grant won the 1872 election against his main opponent Horace Greeley with 286 electoral college votes.  Greeley recieved 3, but they were never counted.  There were, however, four other candidates.  Thomas Hendricks recieved 42 votes, B. Gratz Brown took 18, Charles Jenkins won 2 and David Davis recieved 1 electoral vote.   \n\nit's almost happened a few times; \nIn 1820 Monroe beat John Adams 231-1 \nIn 1936 FDR beat Alfred Landon 523-8\nAnd Reagan beat Walter Mondale in 1984 525-13
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Well, with our current system, your vote really doesn't count much. Especially in Presidential elections. The Electoral College is a huge disaster for MANY reasons, and has got to got. Evidence: George Bush is president.
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Why don't people ever get this? Don't they teach Civics in school anymore? Only 538 people voted in the Presidential Election. The rest of us voted for Electors. That's why it's called an Electoral College.\n\nDuh.
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The Electoral College is the thing that actually elects the US President.  Each state gets a number of delegates equal to the sum of their Senators plus Representatives in Congress.\n\nThe actual delegates are selected by mechanisms in each state, but their vote is a foregone conclusion.\n\nWikipedia is your friend....
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In 1758, there was no America. The British Colonies in America were fighting off the French and Indians in the Seven Years War. Today there is an election based on an electoral college. They choose who the President will be.
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A. THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES\n\n\nITS IS CALLED\nMajority ? Plurality\n      A candidate must receive a majority of votes (over 50%) to become President. If no one has a majority, the person with the most votes has a plurality, but is not President.\n\n\n      The constitution includes a clause that guides the selection process in the event of a plurality. Article II, Section I states that "If the Electoral College does not give any candidate the necessary majority, the House of Representatives chooses the President from among the top three candidates in electoral votes. \n\n\nIn such a situation the House votes by states, with each state having one vote. To be elected president, a candidate must receive the votes from a majority of the states."\n\n\n      This clause has been used twice in the history of the United States. In 1800, when Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied for the presidency with 69 electoral votes each. After 36 ballots, Thomas Jefferson was elected the president of the United States. In 1824, Andrew Jackson led in electoral votes, but he did not have a majority. The House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams as President after Henry Clay gave Adams his support.\n\n\nHOPE YOU UNDERSTOOD
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Yes, but it is by popular vote.\n\nIn 2000 Bush was elected by the Electoral College:  a big mistake but it was the law.\n\nGore actually won the election with the popular vote.\n\nThe election was rigged by Daddy Bush
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Supposedly the citizens of the USA, but we really only vote for the electoral college. The Electors are under no obligation to vote the way the people voted. That's democracy for you.
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There was no presidential election in 2001. \n\nGore won the popular vote in the 2000 elections, Bush the electoral vote with some help from FLorida officials and Supreme Court justices. \n\nWhen will we have direct voting for presidents?
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The Electoral college in many ways is a remnant of the past. It is bloated, cost too much money, and is ripe for corruption\n\nTwo US Presidents have been elected by the electoral vote, despite losing the popular vote! In a Democracy, the popular vote should always be more important.
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Not everyone voted for Bush. A little over half our country was stupid enough to vote for him. Also, there were many voting irregularities that occurred in Ohio and Florida.  He is probably the most inarticulate and moronic President in American history. It is not brains you need to be president. You need to come from a powerful wealthy family, and have a father who also served as President...and high power friends who own huge corporations.
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The Constitution mandates that the President and Vice President be chosen by Electors (members of the Electoral College). Only the Electoral college vote is used determine who becomes President. There is actually no national popular vote as far as the Constitution is concerned. See Article II and the 12th Amendment. \n\nThe Electors are chosen by the citizens of the states, according to laws established by the states. So, each state determines the formula for how the popular state vote is converted to an electoral vote, and then directs the state's Electors to vote that way.\n\nMost states allocate Electoral votes all-or-nothing, based on which candidate gets the highest number of votes in the state. So, if a candidate gets 51% of the popular votes in a state, that candidate gets 100% of the Electoral votes for that state.\n\nThe problem with the Electoral college is two-fold. First, it results in situations where a person loses the national popular vote, but because of the way the formula is applied ends up getting a majority of Electoral votes.\n\nThe other problem is that the all-or-nothing system effectively locks us into a two-party system, since a candidate must get the majority of votes in a state before ANY of the Electoral votes count. So, in a three-way race, someone could easily get 2/3 of the national popular vote, yet still fall below the threshold in every single state and thus end up with NO electoral votes at all.
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People elect the electoral college who elects the president
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Back when the Inauguration Day was March 4th, it usually took a month for the Electoral College to get to Washington, and then the news get back out to the States.\nWhy - because of horse and buggy - they didn't have the Internet.\nAnd no airlines!\n\ngreat question\n\nnow here's your bonus for 100 points\n\nWho was the last President to be inaugurated March 4th and also the first to be inaugurated January 20th.\n\n(hint - a 20th century President)\n(hint - he was the only President elected to four terms)
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easy answer:\n\nthe American people elected B.U.S.H.
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Yes,thank God someone remembered to ask this question. The Electoral College ,what's it good for, the President should be elected by popular vote,case closed. The electors, constitutionally, aren't even required to vote for who the people say they should vote for. This is a "horse and buggy",extremely archaic law, which has no relevance in the modern day US.
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Martin Van Buren, born December 1782,  was the first US President born after the Declaration of Independence.