Even though polls are sometimes treated as projections, they aren’t designed to tell you who's likely to win. So even if it ...

Chances are, you’ve never been contacted for an election poll. But the dozens of high-quality election polls that will be ...

Before there was a FiveThirtyEight model or a New York Times election night needle, there was an economist named Louis Bean.

When you hear the term bellwether, you might think about states in the presidential election that always vote with the White ...

As thousands of counties and towns report vote totals, it can be hard to figure out when the results reported so far will ...

With the American electorate so evenly divided, there will be elections in November so close that officials will have to ...

The Supreme Court decision that delivered the presidency to Republican George W. Bush over Democrat Al Gore in 2000 is ...

The Electoral College is the unique American system of electing presidents. It's a 538-member group that elects a president.

Vice President Kamala Harris is proposing to provide federal funding to cover home care costs for older Americans, aiming to ...

Americans will cast roughly 160 million ballots by the time Election Day comes to a close — in several different ways, ...

When it comes to understanding elections, it’s not just about who won and lost. To explain what really happened, it’s ...