It's not the popular vote that decides who wins the presidency — it's the outcome of the Electoral College . This map shows how many votes each state gets in 2024.

Each state has two Senate seats and Michigan has 13 House seats, giving the state 15 votes in the Electoral College. Each state’s political parties choose a slate of potential electors before ...

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 ...

More states are signing up for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would allocate a state’s electoral votes to the national popular vote, effectively eliminating the Electoral College ...

“Back in the 1960 election, Richard Nixon had a gimmick of visiting all 50 states,” Kondik said. “That sort of strategy made sense in 1960 because so many individual states were competitive. We had ...

By current polling projections, Harris is poised to win 191 ‘solid’ electoral college votes, and Trump 131. When including those states that are leaning one way, this goes up to 226 for Harris ...