The popular vote says one thing—but the Electoral College can say another. Here’s why that matters more than ever.

Rather than a simple nationwide winner-take-all system, the U.S. president is chosen by the electoral college – a delegate-based process that does not always align with the popular vote. Here ...

It’s also shown us how once again the popular vote and the electoral college, don’t always see eye-to-eye. If you focus too much on the numbers, it won’t be long before confusion sets in.

(CNN) -- What if, after all this politicking, neither candidate received 270 electoral votes? Or what if some electorates --as those folks who attend the Electoral College are called -- changed ...

Once states totaling 270 electoral votes join the compact -- which only requires passing state laws -- then the next presidential election will be determined (by) the popular vote, not the ...

That's just over 51% of the popular vote. Biden holds the record for most votes ever won by a U.S. presidential candidate. He received 306 electoral votes, well past the 270 needed to win. The ...

This might be my favorite graph that we’ve done so far: a comparison of Barack Obama’s popular and electoral vote totals across the first 1,000 simulations that we ran last night: ...

The two vote state-by-state reduction would not have altered the outcome of the 2016 election, in which Donald Trump received 77 more Electoral College votes than Hillary Clinton, even though her ...

That likely will mean a scenario like in 2000 where Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George W. Bush because of the winner-take-all Electoral College system.

In 2000, when Al Gore won the popular vote by about 550,000 votes but Mr. Bush won the Electoral College, such a split hadn’t happened in more than a century.