Is Iowa a winner take all state? Beginning with the 2012 presidential election, Iowa switched from the old winner-take-all allocation to proportional allocation. ... It was also hoped that this change in the election system would energize the base of the party. Starting in 2016, caucus resul...
House of Representatives in 1886. Because of this, a state could not be divided into multiple states, and more than one state could not be combined to form a bigger state unless the states in question and Congress consented to this development. All States Being Equal Fearing that the new st...
Since 1959, there have been 50 states in the United States of America. In the District of Columbia, there is no state, it is a federal district. As a result, DC and Puerto Rico are included on many lists, bringing the number of “states and other jurisdictions” to 52. There is prob...
There are a total of 538 electors in total - 435 representatives from Congress, 100 Senators and three additional voters from the District of Columbia. Most states operate a winner-takes-all system, so if a candidate wins the most votes in a state, they get all the Electoral College votes...
Greg Cusack, a former member of the Iowa House of Representatives, told Xinhua that the Capitol riot will continue to fuel U.S. political turmoil three years later, and he is concerned about more violence in this country. "It has already begun," Cusack said, noting that some statehouses ...
A bill passed yesterday in the House of Representatives to ban TikTok in the US if it isn't sold from its Chinese parent company. Here's how your representatives voted.
Proportional: Candidates are awarded delegates in proportion to the share of the vote they receive in the primary or caucus. There are many variations of proportional allocation methods. Some states allocate all their delegates in proportion to the statewide vote. Others allocate just their statewide...
Two Iowa congressional races in the 2024 election could flip the House of Representatives. In Iowa's 1st District, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks faces a challenge from Democrat Christina Bohannan. Miller-Meeks joins CBS News with more on her campaig
They’re the focus of the immigration debate. But across the nation, Latinos are rising to power and offering a glimpse of what’s ahead.
Texas, Iowa and Ohio itself, Democrats in 2022 were unable to generate any meaningful backlash against Republican state officials who imposed severe abortion bans-even though polls, including both the PRRI project and local surveys, showed most voters in those places su...