Ironically, Trump had previously criticised the system back in 2012, saying, ‘The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.’ Although he likely changed his mind on that four years later.

Presidential candidates need 270 electoral votes to win an election. Click on this interactive map to create your own projections for the 2024 presidential race, see how states are expected to ...

There are only two states that split their electoral votes by congressional district: Nebraska and Maine. Both states ...

Joe Lieberman, came out against the Electoral College much earlier. When asked if he would scrap the current electoral system during a 2012 interview, he said, “I would, not surprisingly,” acc ...

Early Wednesday, Trump became the first candidate to collect 270 electoral votes to win back the White House. U.S. News breaks down how those votes were won in each state. Interested in more ...

A key issue to understand about Electoral College is "it proportionately favors smaller states over larger states," says Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school a U.C. Berkley. It would take ...

And the national vote tally is irrelevant to picking a president; what matters is the selection of representatives from each state to the Electoral College. Each state chooses electors (their ...

In an age of perceived political dysfunction, effective policies that are already in place—especially successful policies established by this nation’s Founders, such as the Electoral College ...

That system, the Electoral College, balances the competing interests of large states with those of smaller states. By allocating electors based on a state’s cumulative representation in the ...