And this was decades before the current political mess developed. Granted, a new constitutional convention would have one obvious advantage over the 1787 convention: experience accumulated in the ...

One of the quirks of the U.S. election process is that one candidate can win the popular vote but another can win the ...

The idea of the Electoral College emerged during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as a middle ground between two ...

The concept emerged during the Constitutional Convention, which took place over a four-month period in 1787 to address issues ...

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The Electoral College is made up of 538 elected members, one for each U.S. senator and U.S. representative, plus three for ...

As Vice President Kamala Harris faces former president Donald Trump for the presidency in 2024, the US Electoral College will ...

The Electoral College ensures that even the most sparsely populated states have an effect on the final result (Wyoming, ...

The Electoral College is a group of intermediaries who choose the president and vice president of the U.S. It consists of 538 ...

Trump loses but wins the popular vote and we read a million opinion pieces about how actually the Electoral College saved ...

Ever wonder how we ended up with the Electoral College? A new virtual reality experience lets you get inside the 1787 debate over how a U.S. president should be elected.