electoral votes

Donald Trump is headed to the White House because he upset Hillary Clinton in the “outstate” sections … counties beyond the metropolitan areas in Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The 50 electoral votes in those five states, all carried by Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, provided Trump the margin of victory, according to “The Outstate Effect,” a newspaper by political analyst Michae

OLYMPIA (AP) — A Democratic presidential elector from Washington state says she is joining a national effort to try and deny Republican Donald Trump the presidency at the Electoral College. Levi Guerra, a 19-year-old from the small town of Warden in Central Washington, announced at the state Capitol Wednesday that she's joining the so-called Hamilton Electors, a group that includes fellow Washingt