The vast majority of elections in the US are guided by plurality rule: Each voter selects one candidate, and the person with ...

The Electoral College, a compromise between the founders of the Constitution, has allowed states to select their own electors ...

Roosevelt in 1936 (60.2), and Richard Nixon in 1972 (60.7). Only 38% of presidents have won consecutive elections since 1900. The average age of the president at inauguration is 55. A candidate ...

Exit polls are surveys of voters taken as they exit their polling place. The exit poll also includes interviews with early in-person voters and a telephone poll is conducted for absentee voters.