Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, One Vote? on PBS.

A more difficult problem was how to structure the voting within the Electoral College. During the debates ... be the top two vote recipients. In the 1796 election, Federalist John Adams became ...

America’s government teacher” Sharon McMahon says the electoral college keeps Republicans and Democrats in power.

Quadrennially, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the U. S. people perform what they call "electing a President." That is the effect of their performance, but not ...

19, 1796. He triumphantly celebrated the burgeoning ... he was unanimously voted the nation's first president by the electoral college in late 1788-early 1789. John Adams was elected the first ...

Really? Then how did Lincoln win the electoral college without winning a single Southern state, or even being on the ballot south of Virginia? Didn't the elections of 1796 and 1800 also feature sharp ...

The Electoral College is a group of people chosen by each state who formally elect the President and Vice President of the ...

The chicanery that would ensue as a result would usher in yet another constitutional crisis that would test the American ...

Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are spending an awful lot of time in Pennsylvania. Why? Because Pennsylvania voters hold ...

If the Electoral College already benefits smaller and more ... In the 1800 election, a rematch of 1796, Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans beat incumbent President and Federalist John Adams.

In the election of 1796, for example ... The way we use the Electoral College now reinforces a two-party system. The founders' original vision has been cast aside as the two major U.S. political ...