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Helen Bentley and Ellen Sauerbrey aren't the only political rivals for whom a handshake made a difference.

Recent proposed changes to Electoral College should be ignored in favor of its eradication.

From earliest days of his presidency, Obama had an eye on Electoral College calculus

Formula for electors draws from slavery

Stop treating politics as sport and stick to the issues, please

President should be elected by the people, not by Electoral College

It was almost anti-climactic at the polls in Westminster on Tuesday afternoon. After a year of robo-calls, tons of campaign literature, debates and nonstop news coverage, election day came to Carroll County, and reports indicate heavy and steady voter turnout.

Aspects of the Electoral College and the popular vote can be combined to bring more people into the process

What a split decision for Obama would mean

An Electoral College deadlock might produce some surprising results

President Obama and Mitt Romney have been turned into constant fund-raisers by the unintended consequences of our campaign finance system.

Whether you vote early or wait until the traditional Election Day on Nov. 6, please do vote. One way or the other, history will be made. Why not be a part of it?

In the final weeks of the grueling campaign between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, Marylanders are playing a big role in the effort to turn out the vote in states like Virginia and Pennsylvania — both of which will be far more important than the Free State in deciding who will live in the White House next year.

Conservatives who want to make a difference may have to leave Maryland.

With primary battles settled, the conventions over and the general election less than two months away, Democrats and Republicans now turn to the end game: reaching out to persuade the few remaining undecided voters that their nominee is the one to solve the nation's problems.

Maryland Republicans head to their national convention in Tampa to cast their ballots for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and prepare for the November election against President Barack Obama.

Jules Witcover says America apparently wasn't ready for Americans Elect

History Matters: A 1912 article charts the age of U.S. presidents

It was Election Day for the presidential primary in Harford County on Tuesday, but not many might have noticed. Voting was lackluster throughout the county by mid-afternoon, with many polling places reporting only about 100 or 200 people showing up to cast ballots.

It's time to re-think the knee-jerk reaction that a student representative on the Harford County Board of Education is too young or too immature to entrust with the responsibility of having a deciding vote on school system policy questions.