Nebraska and Maine long ago discarded the Electoral College's winner-take-all approach to allow split ballots if a candidate wins the popular vote in a congressional district.

Electoral College math, recent history and current polling suggest a remote – though not absurd – scenario in which the lone District 2 vote plays an outsize role. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers ...

Maine's four electoral votes have been cast. Kamala Harris received three, and Donald Trump picked up one. "While the process ...

Nebraska has long counted its electoral votes in presidential elections differently than almost every other state in the union. Forty-eight states are winner-take-all, meaning that the candidate ...

How the 2nd District could affect the presidential election. The presidential candidates need 270 electoral college votes to win, and Maine will contribute four of them.

Two recent Maine based developments have once again put the state on the national stage of how the country elects its president. The first came last month when the legislature voted to join 16 ...

A Maine Democrat warned Nebraska about changing their electoral college system to benefit Trump. Former President Donald Trump speaks in Clinton Township, Michigan, on September 27, 2023.

Most states are winner-take-all, but in Nebraska and Maine, ... The Electoral College was conceived of and adopted at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

Under the Electoral College system, although smaller states do not have as much influence as places like California, New York, or Texas, their votes still matter because their (at minimum) three ...

Interestingly, Maine didn’t exercise its ability to split its Electoral College votes until the 2016 presidential election, when Donald Trump received one vote from the 2nd Congressional District.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. How could the Maine Legislature be so partisan as to consider giving up ...