The assumption was that the Electoral College math would continue to favor the GOP and disadvantage Democrats. But the main theme as we barrel toward the 2024 presidential election seems to be ...

Each candidate has a slate of presidential electors in each state, who will then convene in state capitals and Washington, D.C. on Dec. 17 to officially cast their electoral votes. Those electoral ...

In the United States, the winner of a presidential election is determined not by a popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots “electoral votes” to all 50 ...

Breaking down the Electoral College: How many votes per state, where are each of the candidates leading, and what will it take to secure an Electoral College victory? With the 2024 election coming ...

An Electoral College tie is unlikely, but not impossible, in a presidential race that appears to be neck and neck With the 2024 presidential election just days away, Democrat Kamala Harris and ...

On the first Tuesday of November of the election year, voters cast their ballots for the Electoral College, and not directly for the presidential candidate. The case is different in Maine and ...

The House could “settle” an election if neither candidate manages to secure the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the election. In this case, a "contingent election" sees delegates ...

Larry Garber, an international affairs professor at George Washington University, talked about the U.S. Electoral College. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text ...

But in 2016 he won in the electoral college with slim majorities in several toss-up states. That is the only way he can win the looming election, a contest all the polls show is too close to call.

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In two of the past six elections (2000 and 2016), the candidate who won the popular vote did not win the Electoral College, fueling debates over whether the U.S. should adopt a popular vote system.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain locked in a dead heat in national and battleground state polls, with all eyes on who will clinch the Electoral College.