Forty-eight states have a winner-take-all system where the winner of the state's popular vote gets all of its electoral votes. Maine and Nebraska are the only states with a split ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is the 2028 Democratic presidential primary frontrunner, according to a poll released ...

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 ...

On the day the electoral college voted that year, Republican Richard Nixon was ahead — but Democratic electors, believing that John F. Kennedy had carried the state, held their own vote for Kennedy.

My favorite electoral college story comes from Colorado in 1876 and the aforementioned Hayes-Tilden electoral dispute. Colorado had only been a state for a couple of months before the 1876 election.

In recent history, Ronald Reagan secured the largest Electoral College victory in 1984 when he won every state in the nation except Minnesota, the home state of his opponent, Walter Mondale.

Casting votes in the Electoral College has been a routine part of election mechanics, but this year electors have been thrust into the cross hairs of President Trump’s extraordinary effort to ...

The Electoral College has 538 members, a number drawn from the sum of the number of U.S. senators and House members plus three electors for Washington, D.C.