Jeff Greenfield is a contributing writer at POLITICO Magazine covering U.S. politics. He’s a five-time Emmy-winning network television analyst and has written multiple books about American politics.

On election night, Americans across the country were focused on one number: 270. It’s a well-known – and hotly-contentious – fact that in American politics, presidential candidates must win 270 ...

Track the breakdown of electoral votes by state in the contest between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Nov 5 (Reuters) - In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots electoral ...

For an explainer on today’s process, click here. To see the times each state will vote, click here. To see a list of legislatures live-streaming Electoral College voting, click here. It’s the first ...

Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 because of the Electoral College. So did George W. Bush in 2000. The Electoral College is the unique American system of electing presidents. It is different ...

The six battleground states where the Trump campaign and GOP contested the election results held their Electoral College votes Monday, formalizing President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. President-elect ...

For the last couple of decades, the Electoral College has been under increasing scrutiny. Though controversy around it dates to our nation’s founding, it was the 2000 election that really reignited a ...

It’s the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December in a presidential election year, so we all know what that means – Electoral College day. As per the Constitution, electors in 50 states ...