Quotes by Popular Vote Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said. Al Franken popular-vote college believe REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. Ambrose Bierce popular-vote learning law A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign. Ambrose Bierce popular-vote sovereign vote When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses. Andrew Sullivan popular-vote tiny minorities Bush won the largest popular vote in history with a 3.5 million margin. Indeed, simply by getting a majority of the country to vote for him - the left's most hated politician since Richard Nixon - Bush did something rock star Bill Clinton never did. Bush maintained or increased his vote in every state but Vermont. Ann Coulter popular-vote stars country I take great solace in the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote. Hillary Clinton got over 2.5 million more votes than Donald Trump got. So I can't say in any way that the people think that harassing women is appropriate. So I don't think we should read into his victory the fact that, you know, women's rights are going to be diminished. Barbara Boxer popular-vote rights thinking The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote. Bill Pullman popular-vote political want 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 popular-vote government struggle 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 popular-vote yankees winning President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better. Chuck Todd popular-vote not-happy president Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular vote. Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Richard Nixon in 1968, and Bill Clinton in 1992. Chuck Todd popular-vote white house [Donald] Trump appears to be searching for an enemy. Is it flag burners, recounts, the press, the popular vote? Trump has gone after them all at times, using wild experience theories even as president-elect to do it. Chuck Todd popular-vote president enemy Hillary Clinton`s popular vote lead is now up to 2.3 million votes, but get this, [Donald] Trump`s percentage of the popular vote has now dropped to 46.4 percent. Chuck Todd popular-vote trump clinton It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now. Cory Booker popular-vote gay simple 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 popular-vote player winning I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college. Donald Trump popular-vote college winning If I was going for the popular vote I would've won easily. But I would've been in California and New York. I wouldn't have been in Maine. I wouldn't have been in Iowa. I wouldn't have been in Nebraska and all of those states that I had to win in order to win this. I would've been in New York, I would've been in California. I never even went there. Donald Trump popular-vote new-york winning I ran for the electoral college. I didn't run for the popular vote. Donald Trump popular-vote college running Even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, you now have Republicans in charge of the White House, the Congress, a majority of governors, more governors than they've had in 100 years, more state houses than they've ever had before. George Stephanopoulos popular-vote white years Such a closely divided election; Secretary [Hillary] Clinton won the popular votes.Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin - about 112,000 votes separated the two candidates as well. George Stephanopoulos wisconsin popular-vote two 12»