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Get a lawyer ! Because each state is allocated a number of electoral votes based on its population , and a successful candidate must win enough states to accumulate a majority of the electoral votes , a presidential aspirant cannot prevail simply by accumulating a large number of votes in one particular region of the country or by receiving a plurality of the popular vote in a crowded field . The Odyssey Bookshop is now the largest independent bookstore in the Pioneer Valley , and carries a unique and distinctive selection of over 50,000 new , used , publisher overstock and antiquarian titles , carefully selected by a staff of professional booksellers . Whatever their destination , new students at Mount Holyoke College will get a taste of what opportunities lie beyond the College 's gates on Saturday , Sept. 15 , as participants in the College 's Second * Saturday program . Soon a fund-raising campaign was started to build a new and larger assembly .