The senate, the house, the popular vote, the electoral college … you may not understand it all but there’s an explanation for everything.
Posted Nov 04, 2020, 06:16AM EST
The senate, the house, the popular vote, the electoral college … you may not understand it all but there’s an explanation for everything.
Below you’ll find a list of “explainers,” pieces by the Associated Press that describe the answers to the questions you may have about the U.S. election.
- A long night, or more, before president is known
- Calling a race is tricky: How AP does it
- US vote is 51 elections, one in each state and DC
- The Electoral College and math game behind the U.S. election
- They lost the popular vote but won the elections
- The unprecedented early voting and what it means
- Why AP called Virginia for Biden
- Looking at Election Day misinformation
- Long lines to vote on Election Day aren’t unusual
- Pandemic to factor into inauguration planning
- From 1800, a lesson in delayed election results
- For election winner, much transition work ahead
- Senate majority outcome may take weeks or more
- Postal Service, judge at odds over ballot search
- Despite the angst, voting problems not widespread
