Popular vote

Group leaders have said that such a measure would help protect the notion of "one person, one vote" and reform a voting system many view as flawed.

Progressives should favor the Constitution's super-majority procedures, which generally promote more reason and less passion in government, demand greater consensus throughout society for public policy, and protect minority rights.

The president-elect obtained 50.9 percent of the popular vote, compared with President Donald Trump's 47.3 percent.

The president-elect and the incumbent have received the two highest vote counts in U.S. election history.

Two of the country's tightest state battles in presidential election history were in Maryland in 1832 and 1904.

Survey finds GOP would support Trump in another attempt at the White House in 2024 if he loses to Biden.

If Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wins the popular vote by less than two points, Trump could be poised to win the election, according to the top statistician.

Biden only has a 12 percent chance of defeating Trump if the popular vote is very close, a recent study of the Electoral College finds.

Biden's seven-point lead is the most sizeable advantage a presidential candidate has seen since Clinton's re-election nearly 25 years ago.

Biden's seemingly clear path to victory may be a result of skewed polls, 2016 comparisons show, with Trump still set up to lose the popular vote—but potentially win the Electoral College once again.

The Electoral College is an indispensable bulwark of America's constitutional structure.

Trump said he hadn't campaigned to win the popular vote, but asserted that he would have won had his campaign employed a different strategy.

Sisolak, a Democrat who was elected to office in November, rejected AB186, which would have joined a pact of several states looking to disregard the Electoral College in the next presidential election. 

"It is certainly undemocratic by any 21st century criteria of democracy," Sanford Levinson, a government professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, told Newsweek.  

President Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by almost three million votes.

"To me, it's much easier to win the popular vote," Trump said on Thursday.

The problem is deeper than the Electoral College versus the popular vote. The problem is about majorities versus minorities, and neither side of the current debate is offering solutions.

A new poll showed a slight majority of Republicans think voter fraud is such a problem they would support pushing back the next election if the president and Congress backed it.

Apparently all of Trump's false claims about winning the popular vote are ringing true with many of the folks who voted for him.

The vice-chair of Trump's voter fraud panel wants to make voters prove their citizenship when registering, despite little evidence of voting by illegal immigrants.

The bill that would have established Obama's birthday as a state holiday failed to pass by six votes.

Crowd size, the popular vote and voter fraud continue to get under Trump's thin skin.

Such a change would not have kept Trump out of the White House.

Putin has sown deep divisions in the U.S. over the legitimacy of the election result.

The current system ensures most states are ignored while a few swing states hoard the attention.

Donald Trump will be headed to the White House, but election results show Hillary Clinton may have been favored by more voters.

The widespread hatred of voters of the "wrong kind" is killing democracy.

Richard Dowling and Cormac Gollogly are the first gay couple to marry in Ireland.