As Republicans in Nebraska consider changing state law to give Donald Trump an extra Electoral College vote this fall, their ...
Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, One Vote? on PBS.
Nowhere is the complete lack of democracy more apparent than in the system to elect the president of the United States: the ...
Five U.S. presidents, including two since 2000, have won the White House despite losing the popular vote. A plan to ensure ...
These days, one can reasonably wonder how many Republicans believe in the ideal of democracy — in which (since we are all ...
Except in the states of Maine and Nebraska, if a candidate receives the majority of the votes from the people of a state then the candidate will receive all electoral votes of that state. The ...
His opponent and current President Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes. The Electoral College is the presidential voting ...
To many Americans, even those who are well informed, the Electoral College seems to be a shadowy, labyrinthine process for [… ...
The delegates’ creation of a unique and cumbersome method of selecting the president, one not used to elect any other governmental official, was born of complex considerations ...
The electoral college is “a process, not a place,” as described ... Through the “genius and foresight” of the Constitution’s framers, Heritage wrote, “they designed an electoral ...
In that process, each state has the number of electoral votes equal to its number of U.S. House members plus its two senators ...
The framers of the Constitution knew from experience ... needs of rural residents in their policy platforms. The Electoral College process ideally would lead candidates to seek votes from all ...