The Leaving Cert politics & society exam gave students who are up to date with current affairs and went “above and beyond” in their preparation a good chance to show off their skills, say teachers.

This Essay highlights three such defects. First, contingent elections—a process by which Congress selects the president and vice president if no ticket wins a majority of electoral votes—are deeply ...

Republicans in the NINO (Nonpartisan In Name Only) Nebraska Legislature have pushed two pieces of legislation (LR24 and LB3) to the floor for debate to eliminate the heralded “Blue Dot” ...

The Electoral College – explained Since its founding, the United States has used the Electoral College to elect the nation's president. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the White House.

The myth of the GOP’s Electoral College advantage began to crumble in September 2023 when Nate Cohn of The New York Times (and formerly of The New Republic) crunched some numbers and found that ...

WASHINGTON — The Electoral College map may look a little different this year than the one you’re used to seeing — or at least the map from the last three presidential elections. Every 10 ...

This Electoral College gap is a huge one for Harris to surmount. It’s likely she cannot win the election if she wins the popular vote by less than 2 points, according to Olsen. AFP via Getty Images ...

This Electoral College gap is a huge one for Harris to surmount. It’s likely she cannot win the election if she wins the popular vote by fewer than 2 points, according to Olsen.

Trump lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton but prevailed in the electoral college in 2016. Republican George W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 but defeated Democrat Al Gore.

And, in fact, a 224 to 212 doubly modified Electoral College victory for Clinton, in which she'd accrue 51.3% of these votes, is virtually identical to her 51.1% edge over Trump in the national ...

This essay is adapted from one appearing in Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College (The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2024).