Richard Nixon changed the map in 1972 with his "Southern strategy," but Watergate neutralized that for Gerald Ford in 1976.

Chapman University Professor Luke Nichter discussed the results found in the 1968 Electoral Map.

The outcome of the presidential race will come down to swing states, but Obama begins the race to 270 with the comfort of counting on a greater number of all-but-certain electoral votes than ...

That got us to thinking about what the electoral maps looked like in years when Republicans won the White House and whether they offered any insight into Romney's path this November.

Call me crazy, but if Nixon can go to China, Trump can send the Electoral College into the dustbin of history where it belongs.

He was the second candidate to do so, following Richard Nixon, who took 520 electoral votes in the 1972 election. Check out election results going back nearly 200 years in the interactive below.

Donald Trump has argued that he can expand the electoral map to Minnesota and Virginia. He is right, even though both states have not backed the GOP in decades.

If that map were to hold, Hillary Clinton would top Donald Trump by a 312-226 total — a slightly tighter race compared with Obama's 332-206 victory in 2012.

His Democratic opponent, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, conceded Nixon’s victory shortly after noon, when the 26 electoral votes of Illinois, a major state whose loss helped deprive Nixon of ...

Instead, Humphrey fell behind Nixon in the popular vote by 0.7%, making the 1968 election one of six in which less than a single percentage point separated the two major candidates (the others ...