The race between President Obama and Mitt Romney is closer than ever, including the measure that will decide it: The Electoral College. Obama leads in states with 201 electoral votes, according to ...

As of Monday, the forecast gave Mr. Obama a 76.1 percent chance of winning the popular vote, but a 74.8 percent chance of winning the Electoral College. In other words, as of right now ...

But the president's narrow popular-vote edge is magnified in the Electoral College. Obama holds a lead in the polls in 11 of the 12 battleground states being contested by both candidates.

But what is clear is that the map offers multiple paths to victory for both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. There are votes in play in each region of the country with 135 electoral votes in the top ...

As it stands now, Mitt Romney leads President Obama in the popular vote ... Al Gore won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College to George W. Bush (after resolution of the dispute ...

President Obama has officially won the election, with 332 electoral votes tallied in his column. Of course this is old news. But the formal count mandated by the Constitution took place Friday in ...

Instead, at that point, Mr. Obama’s position in the FiveThirtyEight forecast had declined for seven consecutive days. If he stopped the bleeding there, he might still be the Electoral College ...

So using those parameters, here’s one plausible scenario in which no candidate wins an Electoral College majority in November: Romney tears up Obama’s 2008 map and wins New Hampshire ...

President Obama hasn't officially secured a second term in the White House. Technically, that won't happen until the electoral college casts its ballots Monday — presumably in favor of the ...

If President Obama wins reelection by three or four Electoral College votes next month, the reason may be simple: noncitizens, mostly immigrants, who don't have the right to vote. No, I'm not ...

So, if 1/3 of the States (17) do NOT cast their electoral college votes - then it goes to the House of Representatives (not the senate) to elect the next President. Origins: As generations of ...

Obama, Mitt Romney and their surrogates will ... Just don’t try making sense of the electoral college. Here’s the way one American articulated the problem: “The present rule of voting ...