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An electoral college is a set of electors who choose among candidates for a particular office. - Source: Wikipedia

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    Sen. Ted Cruz's address at the annual South Carolina Republican Party dinner Friday helped feed growing speculation the freshman Texas senator sparked this week that he's eyeing a run for the White House in 2016 — and raised yet another round of questions about his eligibility so serve in the Oval Office.

  • **FILE** Chairman of the Republican National Convention Reince Priebus addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 28, 2012.

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    After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win.

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    Tradition trumped suspense Monday as members of the Electoral College cast the official, final votes in the 2012 presidential election, a constitutional formality on President Obama's march to a second term.

  • Illustration American Votes by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    KNIGHT: The left's ongoing assault on election integrity

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  • Lawmaker seeks split of the vote in Virginia

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  • ** FILE ** State Sen. Charles W. Carrico Sr., Grayson Republican. (Associated Press)

    Ohio, Virginia eye proposals for more proportional split of electoral votes

    Officials in Virginia and Ohio, once reliably red states that went for President Obama in the past two elections, have discussed the idea of apportioning their Electoral College votes by congressional district — a system some say would more accurately reflect the will of the states' voters but one that others dismiss as an unnecessary political ploy.

  • Critics say Romney digging deeper hole for party

    Mitt Romney's excommunication from the GOP continued over the weekend, with top Republicans growing increasingly angry with the defeated presidential candidate for the damage he's done — and continues to do — to the party's image.

  • **FILE** Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks Nov. 5, 2012, at a campaign event at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, N.H. (Associated Press)

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  • Illustration: Election by William Brown for The Washington Times

    BLACKWELL: Conservatives must learn how to win

    I had a very exciting time at the Republican National Convention. My conservative allies and I all worked very hard in the presidential election. When I woke up the day after the election, everything I had worked for appeared to be in ruins. An extreme leftist had been re-elected president of the United States.

  • ** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney emerges from backstage to concede his quest for President of the United State at his election night event at the Boston Convention Center in Boston, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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  • Pollster John Zogby

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  • President Obama calls Wisconsin volunteers while visiting a campaign office call center in Chicago on Nov. 6, 2012, the morning of the 2012 election. (Associated Press)

    ELECTION 2012: Romney beats Obama in Indiana, N. Carolina

    Republicans on Tuesday recaptured some of the Electoral College battlegrounds they had ceded to President Obama in 2008, narrowing the playing field between the two parties once again.

  • Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to supporters at a campaign rally at Lynchburg Regional Airport in Lynchburg, Va., on Monday Nov..5, 2012. (AP Photo/News & Daily Advance, Jill Nance)

    TAUBE: Romney beating Obama

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