The elderly are easy marks, and in electoral college rich Florida, Social Security is the third rail of politics. |
The US election is not decided by the popular vote, but by a state electoral college system. |
It dramatized the anti-popular bias of the electoral college, an 18 th-century invention designed to confer more political power on slave states. |
The leader was to be chosen by an electoral college comprising MPs and trade unions, and the compulsory re-selection of MPs was introduced. |
It is all left to a set of political compromises between Government Ministers and the electoral college. |
The US says it wants to use the appointed provincial councils to select an electoral college. |