31.   Assuming that his current slender lead in the popular vote holds up, Gore would have won a hypothetical direct national election against Bush.

32.   At first glance, there appears no good argument against letting the popular vote decide the presidency.

33.   At first sight, the challenge looks as if it would be particularly acute for Bush, because he would have finished behind in the popular vote.

34.   Barak repeated that he would rely on a popular vote, in the form of a referendum on an agreement, to try and salve those rifts.

35.   Before the election, they speculated that Gore might lose the popular vote, but win the electoral college.

36.   Both campaigns battled over the largely symbolic question of whether Gore or Bush won the most popular votes.

37.   Both men, neither of whom was ahead in the nationwide popular vote, conceded a day after Americans went to the polls.

38.   Both Schumer and Bartoletti endorsed proposals to replace the Electoral College with a direct popular vote of the president.

39.   A candidate can win the popular vote but still lose the election.

40.   A Bush presidency would be tarred by his loss of the popular vote.