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.
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.
Mr Gore is only 52 and won the popular vote in this election.
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.
"Don't forget Mr Sarkozy won almost half the popular vote when he lost the election, " said Edouard Lecerf, of TNS Sofres.
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.
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.
Without more widespread popular support, however, a general election could be the end of him.
November is the Amish wedding season, and election day falls on a popular day to get married.
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On Sept. 7, Kashmiris participated in the first phase of a four-stage election aimed at restoring a popular 87-seat assembly.
"Midterm elections just aren't as popular or as sexy as the presidential election, " said FAU junior Ben Wack, who's been with the College Republicans for a year.
Mr Rove is widely credited with playing a key role in transforming Bush's image from unruly, hard-drinking, brattish politician's son to popular governor of Texas and then eventual election and re-election as president.
Granted, the Tories pledged before the election to maintain spending on the popular National Health Service.
In the run-up to a general election, that idea is hardly popular among government supporters.
PDI-P would emerge as the most popular of the 48 parties that contested the election.
In Uxbridge, however, the by-election followed the death of a popular Tory, and there was a swing to the Conservatives of 5%.
Since 1916, seven Presidents have won a second term, and all of them exceeded the percentage of the popular vote that they received in their first election.
He will have to gamble that the public will prefer a Tory party that is united on the euro at the next election to one that still includes popular figures such as Mr Clarke and Mr Heseltine.
Those are all the fixings for a close election, measured by percent of the popular vote.
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