There are 538 votes in the Electoral College and it takes 270 — a majority — to win the presidency. In the 2024 election, CBS News projects Trump has secured 312 to Harris' 226. The race ...

The American president is chosen by the Electoral College, not the popular vote. Here's why that is and how it works.

These are the Electoral College votes a candidate needs to win the presidency. The system has been around since our first election when George Washington carried all 69 electoral votes.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are running the the tightest race for the White House in decades with the Electoral College ...

You may be wondering if your vote matters. Here's how the Electoral College works, how electors are chosen and how many votes ...

The United States has a distinctive system for electing presidents indirectly — a source of confusion for those following the ...

Your support makes all the difference. The byzantine Electoral College system has, five separate times since America began, delivered the White House to a candidate who lost the popular vote.

An Electoral College tie is unlikely, but not impossible, in a presidential race that appears to be neck and neck With the 2024 presidential election just days away, Democrat Kamala Harris and ...

But determining the winner is not as simple as totaling up how many people voted for Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump, because of the Electoral College. The Electoral ...

The Electoral College has received a lot of attention of late, leading many to question why it exists — and what it would take to remove it. In two of the six presidential elections conducted ...

A majority of Americans — more than 60% — support abolishing the Electoral College, according to a September report by the Pew Research Center. But the system has survived an unprecedented ...

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