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Mark Makela/Getty Images. Going back more than 50 years, a majority of voters have supported doing away with the Electoral College. “Public opinion polls have shown Americans favored abolishing ...
The debate over the continued use of the Electoral College resurfaced during the 2016 presidential election, when Donald Trump lost the general election to Hillary Clinton by over 2.8 million votes and won the Electoral College by 74 votes.
Today the country bears little resemblance to the world that gave us the electoral college: We assume individual equality within a vastly expanded citizenry; we have universal suffrage with no...
October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT. T he 2024 presidential election is just around the corner as former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris rush to garner votes ahead of Nov. 5. The ...
The Electoral College is made up of 538 elected members, one for each U.S. senator and U.S. representative, plus three for Washington, D.C. A presidential candidate needs to win a simple majority ...
In the runup to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, 12 House Republicans issued an extraordinary statement that warned about the demise of the Electoral College.
How did we get the Electoral College? The Founding Fathers established the Electoral College in the Constitution, in part, as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.