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However, the district plan would have given Obama 49% of the Electoral College in 2012, and would have given Romney a win in the Electoral College even though Obama won the popular vote by nearly 4% (51.1–47.2) over Romney. [223]
Why we have the Electoral College. The rules for the Electoral College are outlined in the 12th Amendment of the Constitution. Because democracy was a new idea at the time, says Field, the nation ...
Five hundred and thirty-eight Electoral College votes will soon be divided between this year's presidential nominees, and for CNN’s John King, the countdown is on.. The network’s chief ...
If neither candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, or in the event of a 269-269 tie, the Electoral College hands the deciding vote over to Congress. In 1824, when four candidates ran for ...
An electoral college is a body whose task is to elect a candidate to a particular office. It is mostly used in the political context for a constitutional body that appoints the head of state or government , and sometimes the upper parliamentary chamber , in a democracy .
The Electoral College employs a first-past-the-post voting system in which a candidate who receives the most electoral votes wins. When candidates have high support levels in states with smaller populations and lower support level in more populous ones, such as in the 2016 election , this can have a consequence in which the winner of the ...
While the Electoral College has its defenders, there’s a much deeper bench of people who don’t understand exactly why it is that 538 electors, not 330 million-plus American voters, actually ...
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?. Harvard University Press. 2020. ISBN 978-0-674-66015-1. The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. Basic Books. 2001. ISBN 978-0-465-02969-3. Alexander Keyssar. (2000) revised 2009; Inventing America: A History of the United States. W.W. Norton. 2003.