Next the electoral votes don’t strictly correspond to the population, eligible voters or cast ballots. A vote in one state like Wyoming can be worth 3.6 x more than in California. Even worse, politicians from both sides game the system where they can. “Gerrymandering” basically repeats deli...
Though Americans head to the polls every four years to choose the president, voters don't actually do so. Instead, each of the 50 states and Washington D.C. are allocated a certain number of electors based on a state's total number of senators and House members in Congress. On election...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Election Day for the 2024 primaries in Illinois is coming on Tuesday. Democratic and Republican candidates for president will be at the top of the ballot, with voters also choosing candidates for Cook County State's Attorney, Congress, and more. Did you register to vote?
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He also held a rally to reach Black and Latino voters in the South Bronx in May — capitalizing on his forced time in New York while he was on a trial that yielded 34 convictions. Lead Art: Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and...
Even if electoral votes were allocated exactly according to each state’s share of the U.S. population or share of eligible voters, the electoral process would still not resemble a national popular vote. Generally, most states are winner-take-all, meaning that the winner of the state in an...
Washington —President Biden cruised to an easy victory Saturday inSouth Carolina's Democratic primaryas the incumbent facing two long-shot candidates, winning about 96% of the vote. But for voters in the Palmetto State, which marked the beginning of the Democratic primary nominating calendar this...
Under new plans unveiled by Joe Biden, illegal aliens enrolled in DACA, the massive amnesty program that was illegally enacted by executive order, circumventing Congress, during the Obama Administration, will become eligible to enroll in taxpayer-funded Medicaid and Obamacare programs. Biden says tha...
Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, was defending a law that required voters to prove their citizenship before registering to vote. Such voter ID laws are seen by many as a way to suppress legitimate votes, because many eligible voters—in this case, up to 35,000 Kansans—lack t...
But everyone who is motivated to vote based on Trump’s alleged victimization is already in his camp. The rest of the country doesn’t care. Think of it that what you will, but voters rarely reward victimhood. Trump could also lose by following through on his stated ...