Why did Al Gore lose despite winning more votes? Discover the complex and controversial role of the U.S. Electoral College and how it determines the nation's president in this deep dive.

In the instance that neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump gets the necessary 270 Electoral College votes to win the 2024 presidential election, the Constitution has a system in place to ...

“While I have supported the Electoral College because of its unique design and historic precedence, the fact more than 2 million people have voted for Hillary Clinton over her opponent, yet he ...

All the problems with all the reasons some people claim the Electoral College is a good thing. Attendees at the 2024 Republican National Convention look at a map of the US Electoral College ...

When people cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election, their votes translate into Electoral College representation. Many wonder why the system still exists, and if it should.

The Electoral College is comprised of 538 electors, which equals the 435 Representatives, 100 Senators and three electors given to the District of Columbia. Each state’s number of electors is ...

Jesse Wegman, author of Let the People Pick the President, says the Electoral College's winner-take-all rule is not mandated by the Constitution: "There's nothing keeping us from changing it." ...

Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage said that without the Electoral College, white people will have less say, which is quite sad considering the 3/5 Compromise helped bring about the Electoral College ...

News; Nation; We the People civics lesson: The pros and cons of an Electoral College May 2, 2021 Updated Mon., May 3, 2021 at 10:09 a.m. Sen. Karl Mundt, R-S.D., poses in 1963 with a map showing ...

It's hard to make an intellectual argument in favor of the Electoral College. Most people feel that the person who gets the most votes should become president. After all, that's how we run every ...

And while nearly 155 million people across the United States voted in the 2020 presidential election, ... The Electoral College has its roots in the Constitution, ...