As the nation votes, the balance of power in Congress and state legislatures hangs in the balance. Discover what the election ...

Chances of a tie between Trump and Harris, such as happened 224 years ago, boosts the importance of congressional coattails.

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In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a ...

The Electoral College is a controversial step in the U.S. election process ... month period in 1787 to address issues with ...

In some places, a democracy of the kind some now envision when calling for the abolition of the Electoral College would work, and well. Not so in the United States, where the people's interests are ...

Finn Murphy, a 20-year-old college student in Carolina Beach ... Voting rights groups are keeping tabs on roughly two dozen ...

Muhlenberg College Memorial Hall on November 04, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) ...

Like all but two U.S. states, Illinois has a winner-take-all system, in which all the state's electoral votes to go to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in the state.

Whether Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris or her Republican challenger former President Donald Trump is elected the 47th President of the United States ... of 270 electoral votes (a ...