They didn’t teach us about faithless electors in grammar school 70 years ago, but they should have. Since then, I learned that I’m not really voting for Tweedledum or Tweedledee when I mark my ...
And almost all states are winner take all, meaning whether a candidate wins a race by one vote or a million, they get the ...
Presidential elections in the U.S. aren't decided by popular vote. They are instead determined by the Electoral College. Here ...
The winner of the 2024 presidential election in Texas will capture all 40 of the state's votes in the Electoral College. Texas' 40 electoral votes are the second-most of any state, behind only ...
Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will need to secure at least 270 votes in the Electoral College to win the 2024 presidential election.
Every four years, Americans cast ballots to determine their chosen President of the United States, but technically speaking, ...
Electors have already pledged their support for a certain candidate, so they almost always vote as pledged. This changed in 2016, when a historic number of so-called "faithless electors" - seven ...
While electors have pledged to vote for the candidates they are electors for, there have been numerous instances of "faithless electors" in presidential election history - when a pledged elector ...
It could happen again. It could happen this year, and not necessarily as expected, by a single elector from Nebraska. Only Nebraska and Maine allocate electors by congressional district rather ...
The U.S. presidential election is here. Tomorrow, millions of Americans will go to the polls in what will be one of the world’s most-watched elections. Swing states, faithless electors, the ...
Electors pledge to vote according to the statewide or district popular vote. If they don’t, they’re called a “faithless elector.” Some states have laws that require their electors to vote ...
The election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is shaping up to be the closest Electoral ...