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The presidential campaigns have made over 200 visits but speak to just a fraction of American voters

Oct. 09, 2024 14:47 PM EDT

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — On a table at the office of the Waukegan Township Democrats sits a box of postcards with Wisconsin addresses that were collected during a postcard-writing pizza party to help turn out voters there. Leaning against the table are homemade Harris-Walz signs. ...

Voters in the US don't directly elect the president. Sometimes that can undermine the popular will

Oct. 09, 2024 00:28 AM EDT

The U.S. has a unique system for electing a president, the Electoral College. In modern times, it has put disproportionate voting power in the hands of a few states that are fairly evenly divided politically. That forces campaigns to dedicate most of their money to the so-called...