If neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump nor I are able to win 270 in the electoral college... then it will go the House of Representatives.
As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.
The fact that populism is flourishing internationally, far from the Electoral College and Fox News, suggests that Trump's specific faults might actually be propping up American liberalism.
Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering.
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.
For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.
I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college.
I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.
In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would turn up for further explication on an exam. I noted them for their clarity, their rhythm, their beauty and their enchantment.
When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a writer and an artist when I grew up. So in college, I was an English major, and then I became a fine artist. But when I arrived in San Francisco in 1995, I figured I could leverage my artistic skills by becoming a Web designer and programmer.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
I was an English major in college!
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.
When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
