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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

The popular vote helps determine how many electoral votes each candidate gets. It is not meant to determine who the majority of the country wants, but rather, who each state wants as president.

The popular vote helps determine how many electoral votes each candidate gets. It is not meant to determine who the majority of the country wants, but rather, who each state wants as president.

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 ...

Trump’s clear popular vote victory is what should have given him another four years in the Oval Office, not him scoring 312 electoral votes to Harris getting 226.

Unless blocked by the courts, the National Popular Vote would take effect when states with electoral votes totaling at least 270 — the number needed for victory — agree to participate. That ...

In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes, but it was where those votes fell that mattered, and Trump won in the states he needed for those Electoral College votes.

Oregon has joined the National Popular Vote Compact, but the compact is not active yet, so the state's electoral votes will go to Kamala Harris because she won the state's popular vote. WHAT WE FOUND ...