2025, to certify the Electoral College results,the 12th Amendmentcalls for the House to “immediately” choose the president from no more than the three candidates who won the most electoral votes. In a 269-269 tie, that would mean just the two maj...
Under the Electoral College system, more weight is given to a single vote in a small state than to the vote of someone in a large state, leading to outcomes at times that have been at odds with the popular vote. It also affects how candidates campaign. Because the outcome is ...
Wear a different NFL jersey each time you vote in order to disguise your identity, because no one on Earth would confuse a Kansas City Chiefs fan with a New York Jets fan. These are different people entirely – much like a Biden voter and a Trump voter. But even if this George Soros ...
Under the Electoral College system, more weight is given to a single vote in a small state than to the vote of someone in a large state, leading to outcomes at times that have been at odds with the popular vote. It also affects how candidates campaign. Because the outcome is almost cert...
But if the 538 electors in the Electoral College split their vote at 269 to 269 and cannot agree on a candidate, then the House and Senate must step in to hold a contingent election. Here's what would happen and who would need to become involved if there were a tie in theElectoral ...
5. Europeans have lived with the idea of social status for a long time. European society has always been divided into classes, so people there accept the idea of status very easily and naturally. Whereas in America, a mobile society, a kind of social paranoia exists, because no ...
In modern U.S. elections, the meeting of the Electoral College is essentially a ceremonial confirmation of the choice made by voters. This year, it will take place on Dec. 14. But if the winning candidate is no longer alive, it would be anything but routine. ...
If confirmed, he would be the No. 2 to hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, who has been tapped for the top job at Treasury. In his previous stint at the department under then-Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Faulkender was responsible for running the Paycheck Protection Program, a massive lending pla...
Electoral College results can be, and often have been, an unrepresentative indicator of voter support. Trump’s victory may be a harbinger of a decisive change in the relationship between the federal government and the citizenry, but a decisive victory by the numbers it is ...
"The reality is, when you vote for president, you're never voting for that person. You're voting for the elector to cast a ballot for that person at the Electoral College meeting in December," Brown said. "I would imagine what would happen is that parties would indicate to ...