It's known as the Electoral College. Including the first presidential election in 1789, won by George Washington, there have been 59 US elections. In all but five - two in this century - the president ...

George Washington stood on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City on April 30, 1789, and took the oath ...

Candidates who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College are John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 ...

If America were to move to a national popular vote, presidential candidates would be selected by the population of the three ...

A more difficult problem was how to structure the voting within the Electoral College. During the debates ... receive and open the electoral votes. In 1789, the Senate elected John Langdon as ...

The first U.S. presidential election occurred 235 years ago, in 1789. It was a small election (about 28,000 voters) without ...

As the world is set to know the next president of the United States, there are lots of questions about the Electoral College ...

In all but five, two in this century, the president has won both the popular votes and the Electoral College votes.

"Many aspects of the Constitution have not been changed since 1789 and are still in place. The Electoral College is still mostly operating the way it was originally intended. So why mess with ...