Trump won the popular vote by the smallest margin of any president since Richard Nixon — for the second time, winning the ...

The United States works as a Republic using the Electoral College system versus a democracy using the popular vote to elect the president and vice president. In other words, the Electoral College ...

In all states except Maine and Nebraska, whoever wins the state’s popular vote gets all of that state’s Electoral College votes. The seven states widely considered to be close contests tonight ...

the candidate who wins the popular vote determines which slate of electors-Republican, Democrat or a third party-will cast electoral votes in the Electoral College for the president. In most ...

Others wanted to vest that power with the states. And still others favored a national popular vote. The Electoral College became the compromise. Every state is allotted electoral votes equivalent ...

Because only swing states matter, five presidents have assumed office after losing the popular vote. The yawning gap between swing and spectator states destroys common Electoral College defenses.

After last fall’s election of La Plata County’s Board of County Commissioners, we read of some county neighbors complaining ...

A new Maine bill was passed by the state legislature on Wednesday that would tie Maine’s Electoral College votes for president to the country’s popular vote. The bill narrowly passed the state ...

Meeting in their home states, electors would find it difficult to collude or buy and sell votes. A more difficult problem was how to structure the voting within the Electoral College. During the ...