For those following today's Electoral College vote, here is the latest vote tally as of 3:15pm ET:
So far that's in line with That's right in line with the results in the 26 states that have already cast their official Electoral College votes. On election day, Trump won 306 electoral votes on Election Day to Clinton's 232.
In 2001, a Yale Ph.D. student named Jason Sorens published an essay decrying the ineffectiveness of libertarians like himself in American politics. “Libertarian activists need to face a somber reality: nothing’s working,” he wrote.
Nineteen states have now voted. Here are Marco Rubio’s vote percentages and ranking in each:
Donald Trump appears to have won all 50 delegates in Saturday’s South Carolina Republican primary, but this hasn’t stopped certain pundits from proclaiming Marco Rubio the real story. Rubio took second place with just .02 percent more of the vote than Ted Cruz received. While Cruz was supposed to have an advantage given the state’s large evangelical vote, Rubio had the endorsements of key figures in the state’s political establishment, notably Governor Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott.
Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,
A week after the New Hampshire Presidential Primaries, what lessons, if any, can we take from the dramatic victories of two outsider candidates? Former New Hampshire resident and occasional Automatic Earth contributor Nelson Lebo weighs in.