The vice presidency seems like a springboard to the presidency, but the majority who ascended owe their promotion to the Grim ...

Elections can have important impacts on the economy, but the most important ones are preceded by some kind of revolution in ...

The bill guarantees the presidency to the candidate who wins the most popular votes and takes effect when states with 270 ...

Today in history: On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln ... it would be the last time the popular vote winner would lose the election until 2000. In 1947, “Meet the Press,” the ...

President-elect Donald Trump secured a second term in the White House with a decisive electoral victory over Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, though the final popular vote count ...

was created as a compromise between picking a president through the popular vote or through Congress. It's meant to keep one state with a large population from having control of the entire election.

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The 2024 election has finally ended. What happens now?

Between 1860 and 1932, republican candidates won 14 of 18 presidential elections, through support from an alliance ... While ...

Source: Election results and race calls are from The Associated Press. By The New York Times election results team: Michael ...

They don’t really settle anything. Yes, somebody gets elected and somebody else loses, and one party or another is strengthened or weakened in pursuit of its agenda. But in a democracy, the dispute ...