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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Even better for Obama/Biden, the gains are not just in the national polls but in the all-important Electoral College and battleground states. This from Rasmussen Reports today: The Rasmussen ...

President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are among the politicians whose past criticisms of the Electoral College system would draw new scrutiny if there is a split verdict in this ...

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 ...

There’s a non-remote chance that the presidential election will end up in an electoral college deadlock, with President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney tied at 269. Wrote West ...