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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.

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.

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., says that under current election procedure, there's "no way" he could win statewide office in Mississippi. Several African-Americans are now challenging those procedures.

Black Voters Sue Over Mississippi's Jim Crow-Era Election Law

7:39pm September 24, 2019

by Debbie Elliott

Four African Americans are suing over a Jim Crow-era election rule that requires statewide officeholders to win a majority of the popular vote and at least 62 of 122 Mississippi state house districts.

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Protesters demonstrate against then President-elect Donald Trump outside the State Capitol building in Carson City, Nev., in December 2016 while Nevada's six Democratic presidential electors inside cast their official Electoral College ballots for Hillary

Nevada Poised To Become 15th State To Ditch Electoral College

12:06pm May 22, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The state Senate voted along party lines to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would give the state's six electoral votes to the winner of the presidential popular vote.

Christmas is coming, but Donald Trump still has a lot to say about November's election.

More Than A Month Since Election Day, Trump, Clinton Teams Can't Let It Go

5:34pm December 21, 2016

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Donald Trump won. Hillary Clinton lost. But 2016 is the election that no one — not even Trump himself — can get over.

Plenty of Trump opponents are begging electors to vote against Trump. But it's hard to see that effort being very successful.

MAILBAG: Could 'Faithless Electors' Keep Donald Trump Out Of The White House?

1:43pm December 15, 2016

by Danielle Kurtzleben

A reader asks about the argument that electors should deliver the presidency to Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote. They could, but they won't.