Instead, 2020 Californian Democrats could likely afford millions of voters defecting and still win. 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, ...
it could be enough to matter. In 2016, Stein’s vote was larger than Trump’s margin in three swing states, causing Democrats to charge that she cost Hillary Clinton the election. How many of Stein’s voters might have voted for Clinton is unknown, but the risk ...
Bush in November 2007, saying the House and Senate had both "wasted valuable time". If there's one clear message Barack Obama wants to get across to the voters, it's that he represents change. He's been called "the first viable black presidential candidate" . He is the son of a ...
But Joe Biden won it back in 2020 by just over 20,000 votes. In both elections, the state had been the tipping point in the Electoral College. Trump this year will take the state’s 10 electoral votes. Trump’s victory was powered by his strength with...
Turnout for this year's Democratic primary fell well below previous contests. In 2020,540,000 people — around 16% of voters —participated in the Democratic primary, while in 2016, 373,063 — more than 12% — did the same. In 2012, former President Barack Obama ran unopposed in the pr...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday in a milestone case over whether former President Donald Trump is eligible for the presidency under the Constitution's insurrection clause.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...