Can a Candidate Win Any Number of Electoral Votes from 0 to 538?
November 03, 2012 at 10:22 AM EDT
Let’s take a break from the presidential campaign to consider a recreational math question posed by New York Times correspondent Binyamin Appelbaum. On Twitter, he wondered: Is there any number of electoral votes between 0 and 538 that is impossible to amass, assuming electors are faithful? Put another way, could a presidential candidate win any [...]