And why is that? Well, it's because of the Electoral College. And to understand why, we have to go back to 1787. Our Founding Fathers debated about how to elect a president. Some wanted the people ...

But remember that national numbers do not mean quite as much as state numbers, thanks to our Electoral College. To explain the purpose and origin of the Electoral College, I would need 500-550 pages ...

Instead, the delegates created what came to be called the Electoral College — a college without students, faculty or a campus. A group of elites, it meets only once, in discrete groups ...

After Colorado’s Legislature passed a bill to join 12 other states in an effort to abandon the Electoral College for a national popular vote movement, known as the “interstate compact ...

A woman at the Save Our States booth hands out an "I Love the Electoral College ... More Alex Wong/Getty Images The Electoral College is a frequent target of criticism—with more attempts ...

Bush and again in 2016 with President Trump; both men were made victorious by a little thing called the Electoral College ... News Service/Corbis News/Getty Images] The first way that we could ...

Love it or hate it, Americans understand the process of choosing a president through the Electoral College. With independent candidates joining the major party nominees on the ballot in swing ...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A joint session of Congress meets to count the Electoral College vote from the 2008 presidential election You’ve talked to a lot of undecided voters around the ...

Instead, the delegates created what came to be called the Electoral College — a college without students, faculty or a campus. A group of elites, it meets only once, in discrete groups ...

CHICAGO — As they do every four years, pundits and newscasters again are explaining why we choose a president in the peculiar way we do. By now, our customary amnesia ...