A cynical and impossible scheme — suits pressed while you wait! Doubtless there are worse ideas than ditching the Electoral College in favor of electing American Presidents by popular vote. But it ...

The debate over who “counts” in America continues to intensify, with significant implications for the nation’s political ...

In the unlikely event that there is a 269 to 269 tie in the Electoral College, a complicated process will begin to churn. First, the newly elected members of the House of Representatives would ...

The Electoral College-driven fates of our nation can be decided by hundreds of votes in one state. The 2000 Bush vs. Gore election ended with a controversial determination by the Supreme Court on ...

Presidential elections, your vote, and the quest for legitimacy. Unlike Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, President-elect Joe Biden appears to have won both the popular vote and the Electoral College.

Electoral College reformers and opponents say the system is confusing, outdated and anti-democratic. Critics note that states with small populations have disproportionately more clout under the ...

In 2016 and 2020 Donald Trump lost the popular election by several million votes. But in 2016 he won in the electoral college with slim majorities in several toss-up states.

I love American and world history, but the Electoral College system that elects the President of the United States has always confused me. This past week, Heather Cox Richardson, a professor of ...

Why do voters in some U.S. states have more sway? What is the electoral college? Answers to 2024 election questions for readers outside the United States.

THE single most vilified provision of the U.S. Constitution has no immediate bearing on the critical issues of civil rights, inflation or war, although ultimately its effect on them is ...

First, the Electoral College ensures that smaller states’ voices are heard by balancing the amount of electoral votes to population size. This system is ineffective because it doesn’t truly voice ...

“The exploding cigar of American politics,” as Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center for Justice called it over the phone. Whoever gets the most electoral votes wins the White House.