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Nebraska's Attempt To Change Election System Fails

Nebraska's failed attempt to switch to a winner-take-all system in elections impacts the Electoral College process.

Top News · Apr 4, 2024

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

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.

WEKU · Mar 23, 2024

Democrats spurn use of certification process to block a Trump win - Roll Call

Congressional Democrats spurned the idea of using the Electoral College certification process to enforce the 14th Amendment against Trump.

Roll Call · Mar 19, 2024

Experts: How SCOTUS could bail out Trump

Media has “missed” key ways the right-wing court could decide the case without ruling on the merits, professor says

Salon · Jan 3, 2024

The Electoral College is a ‘bad’ and ‘undemocratic’ system. So why does the US still use it?

In the most powerful democracy in the world, two of its last four leaders have been chosen by a minority of voters. The US’s Electoral College system is now functioning far from how its creators originally intended, Gustaf Kilander writes

The Independent UK · Jan 1, 2024

2024 Polls: Biden falls behind with younger voters

President Biden is losing popularity with young voters – the same demographic that helped get him elected in 2020

The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2023

Trump's drumbeat of lies about the 2020 election keeps getting louder. Here are the facts

With Donald Trump facing felony charges over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat

The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2023

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2023

Political debates have turned into media circuses. It’s time for a new format.

These big-stage productions with huge audiences encourage all the worst tendencies among the candidates, rewarding the worst demagogues.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 24, 2023

US election 2024: beware polling predictions as they can be wrong – but here's an approach which has often been on the money

Despite the avalanche of legal indictments, Donald Trump remains favourite to win the Republican nomination for the 2024 US presidential election. According to a poll reported by the website Real Clear Politics on August 19, he has a 41% lead over his main rival Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida,…

The Conversation · Aug 22, 2023