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A GOP push to change how Nebraska awards its electoral votes appears to have stalled

7:55pm September 23, 2024

Republicans have sought to have the state switch to a winner-take-all system. The change would block one of Vice President Harris' main paths to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.

Located less than an hour outside Madison, Wis., Columbia County has both city commuters and people in more rural, small towns. Portage, with a population of around 10,000, is the largest town in the county.

One voted Biden. One picked Trump. It's a tale of two counties in pivotal Wisconsin

11:42am May 21, 2024

Wisconsin is one of a handful of pivotal states in the 2024 presidential election. Within the swing state, there are swing counties that could decide the election — even as people remain divided.

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President Biden gestures after speaking about student loan debt relief at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisc., on Monday.

Politics & Government

Wisconsin's 'Mad City' is a rational choice for Biden's appeal to youth

5:00am April 13, 2024

by Ron Elving

It is not much of an exaggeration, if it is one at all, that college towns are to the Democrats today what factory towns were through most of the 20^th century.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Oct. 27, 2016 at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

Politics & Government

Ohio has been a bellwether and a battleground: What is it telling us now?

5:00am March 23, 2024

by Ron Elving

Ohio was the model bellwether state until 2020. In that year, Ohio gave a solid majority of its vote to then-incumbent President Donald Trump, but he still lost the White House to Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden speaks during an event on the campus of George Mason University in Manassas, Va., on Jan. 23, to campaign for abortion rights, a top issue for Democrats in the upcoming presidential election.

Politics & Government

Early polls don't always foretell the fate of a first-term president. Does anything?

9:17am January 27, 2024

by Ron Elving

If polls are not perfect predictors of an incumbent's reelection, is there something else that is? Observers have long sought the True North by which to set their compass and their expectations.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate on April 4, in Palm Beach, Fla.

Politics & Government

Judge sets March 4, 2024, as Trump trial date in election interference case

3:07pm August 28, 2023

by Carrie Johnson

The judge overseeing a criminal case against former President Donald Trump for interfering with the 2020 presidential election has set a trial date of March 4, 2024.

In this Jan. 20, 2001, file photo, standing in the rain, President George W. Bush waves as he watches his inaugural parade pass by the White House viewing stand in Washington, Saturday afternoon, Jan. 20, 2001. With him are his wife and first lady Laura B

Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U.S. presidents, data shows

5:01am August 10, 2022

by Ayana Archie

There have been five presidents who won the electoral vote but not the popular vote, including George W. Bush and Donald Trump.

People pass by a "Complete the census" sign along New York City's Hudson River Greenway in September 2020.

An Independent Review Of The 1st 2020 Census Results Found No Major Irregularities

12:22pm September 14, 2021

by Hansi Lo Wang

Census experts with the American Statistical Association have been evaluating the state population numbers used to reallocate congressional seats and Electoral College votes for the next decade.

Some states have gained or lost Electoral College votes because of changes in population numbers recorded by the 2020 census.

Here's How The 1st 2020 Census Results Changed Electoral College, House Seats

6:48pm April 26, 2021

by Hansi Lo Wang

Based on population shifts recorded by the 2020 census, Texas, Florida and North Carolina are among the states gaining representation, while California, New York and Pennsylvania are losing influence.

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U.S. Army soldiers board a bus in January 2020 at Fort Bragg, N.C., one of the military bases that will likely see population boosts in their 2020 census counts due to a change to how troops deployed abroad were counted.

Why Deployed Troop Counts Are A 'Wildcard' In 2020 Census Results

2:12pm April 23, 2021

by Hansi Lo Wang

About 97,000 troops who are stationed in the U.S. but were deployed abroad during the census could help shift congressional seats and Electoral College votes to states with military bases or ports.

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