18 — but it's not the popular vote that decides the presidency, it's the outcome of the Electoral College. There are 538 votes in the Electoral College and it takes 270 — a majority — to win ...

Before this year’s presidential election slips into gloomy history, we should pause to slam our moldy, undemocratic vote-counting system called the electoral college. If Donald Trump had to win ...

In an appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville pointed out the recurring truth that in the existing landscape, the Electoral College is ...

Early Wednesday, Trump became the first candidate to collect 270 electoral votes to win back the White House. U.S. News breaks down how those votes were won in each state. Interested in more ...

Much discussion about the Electoral College’s merits rests on thinly veiled partisan hopes. Democrats harbor frustration at the prospect of winning more popular votes than Republicans in a loss ...

Since its founding, the United States has used the Electoral College to elect the nation's president. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the White House. Five presidents in the history ...

The Electoral College has received a lot of attention of late, leading many to question why it exists — and what it would take to remove it. In two of the six presidential elections conducted ...

And this suggests the possibility that Election Day may produce a result we have never seen before: a Republican winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College. That, in turn ...

But, why is it so complicated? The Electoral College is part of the answer. Rather than a simple nationwide winner-take-all system, the U.S. president is chosen by the electoral college – a ...

The winner won’t be decided by the number of votes cast in their favor but by a group of 538 people that make up the Electoral College. “When you go vote for President, you do not vote for ...

Yet the Electoral College seems to do just that. March 1867, Harper's Weekly political cartoon by American cartoonist Thomas Nast, depicting an ... [+] African-American man casting his ballot into ...

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have spent months traveling the country on the 2024 presidential election campaign trail, vying for America's vote to move into the ...