While both parties have participated in partisan map-drawing in the past, it’s often done in private and disguised as neutral ...

The electoral map is never truly static for long. Before the Democrats’ “blue wall” there was the so-called “Republican lock” on the electoral college. Years ago, California, Illinois ...

For years, political observers have wondered what politics would look like if deep-blue California, the nation’s most populous state by far, became a battleground. California has 55 electoral votes.

Historian and professor Susan Schulten stumbled onto an 1880 electoral map in her research last year, buried in an 1883 book called Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States.The Library of ...

Differences in how quickly each state’s counties can report this year’s election results may lead to another “blue shift” or “red mirage” on the presidential electoral map.

States sized by number of electoral votes Geographic View. Maine and Nebraska give two electoral votes to the statewide winner and allocate the rest by congressional district.

Forty years ago this week, TV started telling the story of the presidential election as a battle between red states and blue states.When the die-hards and political junkies who stayed up until 3:30… ...

News executives at CBS and ABC derided NBC’s electoral map as a gimmick. But by the 1980 election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, both networks had come up with their own versions, using ...

Differences in how quickly each state’s counties can report this year’s election results may lead to another “blue shift” or ... can report this year’s election results may lead to another “blue shift ...

Differences in how quickly each state’s counties can report this year’s election results may lead to another “blue shift” or “red mirage” on the presidential electoral map.