In case you missed it, the scheme by special interest groups to replace the Electoral College with a so-called national ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The electoral college is part of the Constitution, but the winner-take-all system is not. Each state is free to change its method for allocating its electoral votes.

“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 ...

It hasn't happened yet, but California is bracing for a demographic and economic hit under President Donald Trump's ...

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 ...

The Senate voted 18-16 against having Maine leave the multistate compact it joined last year pledging to give all of its ...

Elizabeth MacDonough was appointed to the role in 2012 by Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, Senate majority leader at the time.

Though America is in its 47th presidency (with many presidents serving multiple terms), just five times has a candidate won ...

The 2030 census is still years away, but early population estimates indicate that Republican-leaning states are set to ...