The phrase “one person, one vote” sounds simple—but the Electoral College makes things much more complicated. In this video, ...

Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 because of the Electoral College. So did George W. Bush in 2000. The Electoral College is the unique American system of electing presidents. It is different ...

Three Democratic senators unveiled a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College system Monday, just more than a month after President-elect Trump stunned the Democrats by sweeping all ...

How did Donald Trump get elected? That’s the question running through many minds since the election results. Now that Trump is the official president-elect and will take office this January, there are ...

How we elect our presidents has never been more broken — and that’s saying something for an Electoral College system subject to more proposed constitutional amendments than any other topic. We ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. President-elect Trump has clinched the ...

U.S. Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawai’i, Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and Peter Welch, D-Vermont, have introduced a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College system and allow presidents to be ...

The Framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a unique system to choose our president in 1787: the Electoral College. More than two centuries later, it remains an invaluable institution that helps ...

REQUIEM FOR A SCANDAL. Nearly four years ago, on Jan. 18, 2022, this newsletter wrote about a frenzy that was sweeping the ...

Can a California Billionaire Spend His Way into the Governor’s Mansion? Kamala Harris, Blamethrower After a Drubbing, Does the GOP Have a Plan? We Don’t Know Where We Are in the Political Cycle Audio ...

President-elect Trump has clinched the necessary number of Electoral College votes to become the next occupant of the White House, teeing up the official certification of his victory before Congress ...

How we elect our presidents has never been more broken — and that’s saying something for an Electoral College system subject to more proposed constitutional amendments than any other topic. We ...