Thomas E. Mann
Political Scientist
"Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College."
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Popular Vote
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Draymond Green
Professional Basketball Player
"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."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"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."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote."
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