In 1913, the 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
But he will owe this less to what he is allowed to do than to the fact of his popular election.
Rather than dismantling the Electoral College with an amendment, we can use the mechanisms of the Electoral College itself to guarantee popular election of the president.
Mr Akaev, a respected physicist, won a tough fight for the presidency in 1990 against a communist boss, and won popular election in 1991 after the republic gained independence.
His association with the individuals and institutions that ostensibly removed him, his past service on their behalf and his unwillingness to submit himself to a popular election have discredited him.
The huge demand for the popular election of the president reflects a cynicism towards members of Parliament in Canberra: many Australians do not want them to have any more control over public life.
Nor is Mr. Obama likely to be much more popular by Election Day 2014.
Consumer protection has been a popular focus this election year, since it, among all the facets of financial reform, is the easiest for voters to grasp.
What this suggests to me is a troubling scenario: Putin is still popular enough to legitimately win the March 2012 election but is not popular enough to actually get a lot done.
The party won the right to the federal money for the 2000 presidential election when Perot received more than 5 percent of the popular vote in the 1996 election.
The Popular Committee for Boycotting the Election said the new body "does not represent the majority of Kuwaiti people and has lost popular and political legitimacy".
Mr Gore is only 52 and won the popular vote in this election.
The begums have won at least 70% of the popular vote in every election since the end of the last military regime in 1990.
To accept these results you have to believe that Mr Mugabe and his party have grown more popular since a parliamentary election in 2000, despite the fact that Zimbabweans have grown dramatically poorer and more frightened since then.
But a popular-vote-only election would have candidates bypassing all but a handful of large states.
But she still does not look popular enough to win the election due in about a year.
In Wales, the election of the popular Rhodri Morgan as first minister in 2000 shot Plaid's fox.
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But thanks to Mr Thaksin, in future no Thai political party can expect to win an election without a popular and well-promoted platform.
On the surface, the two are in very similar situations: there is a weak economy, the president is less than popular, it is an election year, and he resorts to blaming the House, which the other party controls.
That helps to fuel the popular resentment which has marred the election campaign.
"Don't forget Mr Sarkozy won almost half the popular vote when he lost the election, " said Edouard Lecerf, of TNS Sofres.
In 1990, imagining themselves to be popular, the generals called an election.
Bill Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, was a true policy partner, won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election and later picked up a Nobel Prize.
Rather, it protects the Republic and its citizens from a disputed nationwide popular vote that in a close election -- such as this one -- could lead to chaos.
The by-election was triggered by popular Labour MP Ian Gibson quitting after he was barred from standing again for the party over his expenses - sparking anger among some constituents.
Failure of the bill to advance is also likely to give the President a popular issue for his re-election campaign, given the strong support for the law among the general public.
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Election day started with a massive cyber-attack that brought down the websites of Ekho Moskvy, a popular radio station, and of Golos, an independent election monitor that Mr Putin had likened to Judas a few days earlier.
Without more widespread popular support, however, a general election could be the end of him.
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