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 ...

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.

Though we’ve been using the Electoral College for almost 250 years, ... it’s spending more time educating American citizens on their responsibilities as voters, ...

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.

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 ...

The race for the White House all comes down to 270 Electoral College votes. Here's a guide to how many votes each state gets this year to decide the presidency.

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 ...

The Electoral College allocates a number of electors based on how many senators and representatives each state has in Congress (plus three electors for the District of Columbia, for a total of 538).

I’m a professor of political science who has analyzed elections in American politics. I compared the number of Electoral College votes each state has with various characteristics of the states ...

After every presidential election we get a flurry of commentary questioning the Electoral College. It’s an ... they must be addressed because they are—and I mean this literally—anti-American.