Science news articles about 'popular vote'

... John McCain in the two-party contest for the popular vote in the 2008 presidential election. Obama ... "Jobs Model" weighs the sitting president's popularity and the actual number of jobs created or lost ...

... election suggested that it can be difficult to predict the winner of the presidential election based on popular vote," says Jacobson. "In fact, it is possible that the popular vote and the Electoral ...

... first published in 1988. Specifically, his model forecasts the two-party division of the national popular vote for the in-party candidate based on presidential approval in June, economic growth in the ...

... While the researchers, Drs. Will Kalkhoff and Stanford W. Gregory Jr. were able to draw conclusions that predicted popular vote victors in prior races, this year's contest proved ...

To create this image, which won the popular vote in the 2008 Nikon Small World contest, 22-year-old Tomás Pais de Azevedo, a graduate student in evolutionary ...

... after Stephen Colbert, despite the comedian winning the popular vote.Perhaps it was never going to happen. ... Central's "The Colbert Report" would storm the vote. Stephen Colbert urged viewers to write ...

... science does not work that way. Science is no democracy, and we do not render a theory invalid by popular vote. Einstein's theory of relativity has stood the test of time and its correctness is beyond ...