What Is the Electoral College and How Does It Work?
A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidential election, and just getting the most support from voters isn’t enough.
The world is trying to make sense of the U.S. electoral college
The United States has a distinctive system for electing presidents indirectly — a source of confusion for those following the Trump-Harris race internationally.
What is the Electoral College? What to know for Election Day 2024
With the Election Day 2024 upon us and millions of Americans already casting their votes, here's what to know about a key piece of the election.
How does the Electoral College work? A simple explanation for the 2024 presidential election
Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will need to secure at least 270 votes in the Electoral College to win the 2024 presidential election.
Explaining what the Electoral College is, and why it’s so important
The Electoral College is a process established by the nation’s Founding Fathers in the U.S. Constitution.According to the National Archives, the Electoral Collage is a compromise between the election of the American president by a vote in Congress and his or her election by a popular vote.
US election: how does the electoral college voting system work?
Here are five things to know about the electoral college system: The founding fathers opted against a national popular vote where the winning candidate just has to gain a majority of votes to claim victory. They decided instead to establish an electoral college under Article II of the US Constitution.
The 2024 Presidential Election, By the Numbers
Here’s a look at the 2024 presidential election cycle through some of the biggest and most telling data points.
The Election May Not Be Close After All
We don’t know what will happen, but a number of factors suggest the vice president could win by a larger margin than is commonly assumed.
Nate Silver's final forecast: "As close as you can possibly get to 50/50"
A slightly greater than 50 percent of the 80,0000 times Silver ran electoral college simulations, Harris won. Notably, ...
What happens if there is a tie in the Electoral College between Harris and Trump
As voters head to the polls in the 2024 election, there remains a possible but unlikely scenario that Vice President Kamala ...
Why do we have the Electoral College? The history of and arguments against the institution
But determining the winner is not as simple as totaling up how many people voted for Vice President Kamala Harris or former ...
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538's final forecasts for the 2024 presidential election
According to 538's forecasts for the White House, U.S. Senate and U.S. House, control of the federal government is firmly up for grabs.
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Election analysis: The state of the race in 5 charts
Stacker looked at news reports and academic research to see what the polls suggest about the 2024 election and explain why ...
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Breaking down the paths to Electoral College victory for both Harris and Trump
On election eve, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are using the final hours of campaigning to make their message clear in ...