America’s political geography — exemplified by its anachronistic Electoral College system — is organized around states, but its economic geography is organized around metropolitan areas.

These are the Electoral College votes a candidate needs to win the presidency. The system has been around since the first election when George Washington carried all 69 electoral votes.

But the precise definition differs based on whether we’re referring to the Senate or the Electoral College. In the Senate, the small-state bias refers to each state having two senators, regardless of ...

A majority of House Republicans last year voted to challenge the Electoral College and upend the presidential ... as doubts about the election have come to define what it means to be a Trump ...

This is because of the Electoral College, the United States’ election system that turns the presidential race into a series of winner-take-all state elections, with exceptions in Nebraska and Maine.