Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour is not a supporter of Republican proposals to allocate electoral votes in some states by congressional district rather than winner-take-all. “I don’t think it’s a good idea,” he says in an interview on...
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Haley Barbour
Barbour: Dividing Electoral Votes Wrong
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden celebrate on election night, Nov. 7, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.
Congress Makes Obama-Biden Re-elections Official
A 22-minute joint session of Congress today certified the re-election of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Biden, who led the session as the Senate’s presiding officer, formally announced that he and Obama each received 332 electoral votes,...
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President Barack Obama celebrates after delivering his acceptance speech in Chicago on Nov. 7, 2012.
Obama: First with Two 51′s in Five
Eight weeks after the Nov. 6 presidential election, a revised vote count in New York shows that President Barack Obama is the first president in more than five decades to win at least 51 percent of the vote twice. State...
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President Barack Obama shown in Times Square in New York.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 242
That’s the number of electoral votes in the states that Democrats have won in six straight presidential elections. The tally includes 18 states and the District of Columbia. The total of 242 electoral votes is just 28 below the 270...
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A collage of campaign buttons hangs on the wall while volunteers call potential voters to re-elect President Barack Obama at the campaign's Field Office in Chicago.
Obama’s Favorite 389,821 Voters
When all the votes from the Nov. 6 presidential election are counted — they’re still tallying ballots in California and New York — President Barack Obama will have beaten Republican challenger Mitt Romney by close to 5 million votes. Yet...
Read more »Bloomberg by the Numbers: 246
That’s the number of electoral votes in the District of Columbia and 19 states that voted Democratic in each of the past three presidential elections. The total is 24 electoral votes below the majority of 270 needed to win the...
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Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, gestures after speaking at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte.
Rahm Emanuel’s Ohio Problem
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel may have a problem with Ohio. While President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff says he’s not formally floating the idea of overhauling presidential elections, he notes that the only way to break free of swing-state...
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Mitt Romney on his campaign plane while flying from Norfolk, Virginia, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Nov. 2, 2012.
Romney-Biden = 269-269
Romney-Biden. 269-269 in the Electoral College. Republicans run the House, Democrats the Senate. A split decision in electoral votes gives the White House to Mitt Romney, and Vice President Joe Biden keeps the mansion at the Naval Observatory. Bloomberg’s Greg...
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People wait in line to vote at the North Miami Public Library on Nov. 1, 2012 in Florida.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 40
That’s how many states voted Democratic or Republican in each of the past three presidential elections. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia voted Democratic for president in 2000, 2004 and 2008. They have a total of 242 electoral votes...
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President elect Barack Obama waves to his supporters during an election night gathering in Grant Park on Nov. 4, 2008 in Chicago.
Polls Point to Closer White House Race for Obama Than 2008
“I was never the likeliest candidate for this office,” newly elected President Barack Obama said in Grant Park in Chicago on election night four years ago. If the president earns a second term, the statement may be even more fitting....
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