or else that he's got a tough road ahead: Presidents who win second terms usually get more electoral votes in that re-election bid than they got on their first.* But what is clear is that the map ...

At issue is the uniquely American system of the Electoral College, which provides that ... votes to their preferred candidate," said Kermit Roosevelt, a constitutional law professor at the ...

For nearly two decades, there's been an effort to change the way the U.S. has always elected its presidents by creating a workaround to the Electoral College, the indirect popular election process ...

The U.S. wasn’t always divided between blue and red states—the parties that dominated the national conversation once included Whig, National Republican, Democratic-Republican and more.

By Jonn Elledge Over the last few years, those of us who spend every fourth autumn repeatedly clicking refresh on FiveThirtyEight have grown very familiar with a particular map of the US ... all its ...

What’s not common is to hear people explicitly articulate the actual reason so many Republicans think the electoral college is useful ... t like the Franklin Roosevelt era, when FDR won by ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt received 98% of the Electoral College votes in 1936, or 523 votes. Rival Republican Alf Landon received eight. (George Washington took 100% of the total in his two terms ...