We know this, of course, having learned the lesson very clearly in 2: The only thing that matters is the Electoral College. Yes, we all go to the polls and do our thing and, in cool states, get little stickers saying we voted. But our votes only sort…
Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford (R) poured cold water on a Republican plan to rig the Electoral College that is being considered in a number of states to all but ensure that the next president will be a Republican. A number of states that have…
As a fan of population density, I m always fascinated by how some electoral maps in the United States look big because they include large low-density plots of land. So I got to wondering, what s the geographically smallest possible winning map. The…
If you are one of those people who follow the presidential elections closely, then this one is for you. In one of my recent posts on 2008 Electoral College Calculator using Crystal Xcelsius, I developed a tool to predict the next president of the United…
Sponsored Links I live in Utah. In the last presidential election, Utah s Electoral College votes went to the Republican ticket, as they no doubt will again this November, thus rendering me a Republican no matter how I actually choose to vote. In fact…
A GOP proposal to split up Pennsylvania s electoral votes proportionally, effectively ending its status as a prize swing state, could spill over into the governor s race next year. State Senate President Dominic Pileggi (R) introduced the electoral vote…
The Democrats should win 270 electoral votes to 268 for the Republican,writes Moody s chief economist Mark Zandi. The key swing state to push the election to the Democrats is Virginia. If the Electoral College result did eventually follow the Moody…
Electoral college map for the 2012 United States presidential election Photograph courtesy Gage/Wikimedia Commons. The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a nondemocratic method of selecting a president that ought to be superseded…
More than 100 million Americans will take to the polls to cast their ballots for president. However, these votes do not directly decide the winner. Why? Ask the framers of the Constitution - they rejected the idea of election by direct popular vote in…
Republican nominee Mitt Romney s hopes for a victory in the Electoral College are predicated on a rather unprecedented assumption: Almost all state polls have to be biased or systematically wrong in favor of President Barack Obama. This has been the problem…
A Commentary By A Commentary By Geoffrey Skelley, Kyle Kondik, and Larry J. Sabato Sign up for free daily updates Earlier this week, we debuted our initial Crystal Ball Electoral College ratings in Politico Magazine . We’ve reprinted that column below…
The race is close! Talking heads and voters chatter nervously about the prospect that the election contest will be settled in court. An Electoral College tie could yield a Republican president and a Democratic vice president. It’s tempting to think that…
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