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I joined Times Radio’s Alexis Conran on Sunday for a 5-minute Beginner’s Guide to the Electoral College for the 2024 US Presidential elections.
I explain the origins of the “archaic” College, why it has persisted to this day, and how election through delegates rather than popular vote could affect the outcome between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
In 2024, you have not one national election for the US Presidency, but 51 individual elections — the 50 states and the District of Columbia. In each of those states, what matters is not the popular vote but who takes the delegates on a winner-take-all basis.
The electoral college is not an anachronism but the reality of having a union of 50 states. Some propose having electors allocated on the basis of proportionality of the vote rather than winner-takes-all. This is how many states elect delegates in the primaries. This could mean that all 50 states are “battleground” states.
Kamala Harris Is Losing Support With This Key Demographic. It Could Cost Her Georgia: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/07/korean-asian-americans-georgia-economy-00182370
Kamala Harris is losing momentum in the US’s hurricane wreck of an election: https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/10/09/kamala-harris-is-losing-momentum-in-the-uss-hurricane-wreck-of-an-election/
Harris heads to southern border in Arizona — where she’s losing ground to Trump: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/27/harris-heads-to-southern-border-in-arizona-where-shes-losing-ground/75391595007/