Congress declares Obama the next president

Barack Obama is officially the next president of the United States, Congress declared Thursday in fulfilling its centuries-old constitutional duty to certify and tally the electoral college vote from each state.

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Congress meets to count electoral votes

The House and Senate are coming together in a centuries-old tradition to count the electoral votes from the November election and formally declare that Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States.

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Popular Vote Gets Thumbs Up in Calif.

The California Legislature passed a bill that would give California's 55 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, rather than the candidate who captured the state — but for now, the measure stands a slim chance of becoming reality.

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Where would Barack Obama be re-elected if an election were held today?

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The District of Columbia faces a dilemma: To obtain long-denied vote in Congress, it may have to accept federally imposed gun laws that city officials say would make its dangerous streets more so.

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Monday is the day that the electors for each state meet in each state's Capitol and in the District of Columbia to cast their votes for president. Here are some of the basics on the election and the electors.

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Even though national exit polling shows McCain receiving 55% of the white vote to Bush's 58%, that 3 point shift represents a net change of 5.5 million votes.

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For the first time ever, a blue circle will appear in Nebraska on national electoral maps. Democrat Barack Obama won the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District on Friday, scooping up one of the state's five electoral votes.

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For political junkies primed for results, let's review nuts and bolts of the presidential election- plus a few "far-fetched what-if's," unlikely hypothetical events that might happen, but probably won't.

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A state-by-state review of the race for the White House as well as key congressional and gubernatorial campaigns. The state's number of electoral votes is in parentheses.

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Per Polster.com, Obama has cut McCain's lead in his home state to about six points.

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If McCain is able to close this gap somehow, however, the electoral map will look quite a bit different - and quite a bit more favorable to him.

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Republican presidential nominee John McCain's campaign insisted Monday that there are several ways for the Arizona senator to get to the 270 electoral votes necessary to prevail on Election Day.

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Saying there are "many scenarios" under which presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) could each attain 269 electoral votes on Nov. 4, Rep.

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Gun Shy: Why the Networks are Stuck at

Never in the history of modern politics have the people had so much access in central locations to legitimate polling for campaigns at the national level. I, myself, have darted between Nate Silver's www.fivethirtyeight.com and Chicago-based Real Clear Politics.

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The hypothetical electoral vote count by Rove now gives Barack Obama 313, 43 more than necessary for victory, while McCain has 171 and 54 electoral votes remain in the tossup category.

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If the election took place this week, it would be a wipeout of major proportions. Even McCain's home state of Arizona has to be classified as leaning toward Obama. McCain, as of now, can be certain of carrying just eight states with a combined total of only 36 electoral votes.

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Election A to Z answers readers' questions such as: Is there a minimum percentage of the American population required to vote in order for a presidential election to be valid?

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Here's the latest national electoral map published in The Ticket by courtesy of Karl Rove & Co.

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'Obamaha' Why is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin expected to campaign in Omaha, Nebraska, Sunday night?

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The scene: Washington DC. Florida Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, is addressing a panel discussion sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council.

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Here's the latest national electoral map published by Karl Rove & Co., showing continued gains this month by Sen. Barack Obama.

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Forget the fickle presidential polls - it's the Electoral College that's going to produce a landslide victory Nov. 4, a noted pollster predicts.

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Sen. Barak Obama appears to be invincible in his home state. Well, Obama is having a big lead over Sen. John Mccain, in the presidential race, in the state of Illinois — that's what the recent Obama vs McCain Illinois polls show.

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Political analyst extraordinaire DICK MORRIS plots out the critical states that may determine whether John McCain or Barack Obama becomes the next president. McCain is pulling ahead in several states, while six others are tossups.

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See: POLITICO's 2008 Swing State Map

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It will be a red-state Fourth of July for Barack Obama, who hopes to find votes as well as fireworks in places that blue-state Democrats often bypass in presidential elections.

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America's presidential election system is complicated and whether you're voting for the first time, or for the tenth, you may have questions about how it all works. Here's a guide to all the complexities.

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