The United States is a federal constitutional republic. Citizens do not vote directly for the President but they choose among slates of Electors pledged to one candidate or another. Each state receives the number of electoral votes equal to the number of its members of the House of Representatives, which depends on the state's population, and the number of its senators, which is always two. The candidate who obtains the majority "win the state" and takes all the electoral vote of that state.
The map above shows the number of Electors in each state who are in all 538. These Electors will make up the Electoral College and they will vote for the President during the "Election Day", fixed for the 6th of November.
Is this electoral system really democratic?
