How to Use the Electoral College in a Sentence
the Electoral College
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What happens if there's a tie in the Electoral College?
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Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
4 Nov. 2024
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Because of the outcome of the 2020 census, blue states lost votes in the Electoral College.
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Aron Solomon,
Newsweek,
9 July 2024
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In the United States, the winner of the Electoral College vote wins the presidency.
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Nicole Russell,
USA TODAY,
24 Oct. 2024
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Each state appoints electors, who then vote in the Electoral College.
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Alauna Safarpour,
The Conversation,
18 Sep. 2024
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In 2020, Trump came within really a handful of votes in a few states of winning in the Electoral College.
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NBC News,
22 Sep. 2024
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To be sure, polls have also tightened, and due to the Electoral College small shifts in a few states can lead to a decisive outcome.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2024
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With a bias toward smaller states and a winner-take-all structure, the Electoral College can send the loser of the popular vote to the White House.
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Corey Robin,
The New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2023
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In 2016, Clinton won the popular vote comfortably but lost the Electoral College to Trump.
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Eden Villalovas,
Washington Examiner,
19 Oct. 2023
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Members of the Electoral College meet in each state Capitol and cast their votes, officially giving Biden the win.
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Graham Kates,
CBS News,
11 Aug. 2023
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Our nation would not have come together had our Founding Fathers not agreed to the Electoral College.
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Dp Opinion,
The Denver Post,
30 May 2024
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That was the year that state made the difference in the Electoral College after giving the Republican a popular vote edge of just 537 votes statewide.
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Ron Elving,
NPR,
7 Sep. 2024
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So the Republican Party has to ask itself, election denialism: is this the road to 270 in the Electoral College?
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Nbc Universal,
NBC News,
19 Mar. 2023
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And what role might individuals in the Electoral College play?
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Amy Davidson Sorkin,
The New Yorker,
21 Dec. 2023
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Although her relative strength with white voters for a Democrat augurs well because of the bias of the Electoral College, correct?
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Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
17 Aug. 2024
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The state polling misses have been magnified in the last two presidential elections — two very close races that heightened the importance of the Electoral College.
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Kaleigh Rogers,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2024
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That gave Trump the Electoral College, but not a popular-vote majority.
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Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
8 Apr. 2023
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Despite Democrats winning the popular vote in recent elections, outcomes often hinge on key swing states due to the Electoral College.
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Tonya Evans,
Forbes,
15 Oct. 2024
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But these states occupied the center of the Electoral College in those presidential contests.
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Craig Gilbert,
Journal Sentinel,
2 Aug. 2023
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The Times polling is unusual, though, in implying that the bias may go in the other direction this time around; that the Electoral College might actually help Harris.
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Andrew Prokop,
Vox,
24 Sep. 2024
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The messiness of the process led to calls to abolish the Electoral College altogether—a divisive political issue to this day.
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Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 Sep. 2024
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Based on pure polling, if the election were held today Biden would almost certainly lose the Electoral College count decisively.
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Brynn Tannehill,
The New Republic,
14 Aug. 2023
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The data point to another close call, and perhaps to a divergence between the Electoral College and popular-vote results.
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Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
14 Sep. 2024
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Prior to the Twelfth Amendment of 1804, each member of the Electoral College cast two votes with no distinction between president and vice president.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques,
TIME,
6 July 2024
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Democrats have more recently been the victim of this effect, as frequent winners of the popular vote recently but falling short in the Electoral College.
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Jared Gans,
The Hill,
2 Nov. 2024
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Our averages also show Trump leading in most swing states, though there is enough uncertainty that Biden could easily be ahead in enough to win the Electoral College.
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G. Elliott Morris,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2024
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By eighth grade, according to the assessment, students should be able to identify the three branches of the federal government and explain the workings of the Electoral College.
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Dana Goldstein,
New York Times,
30 Nov. 2023
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Their relationship has essentially been over since Trump refused to accept the results of the Electoral College.
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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
29 Feb. 2024
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The seven battleground states crucial to winning the Electoral College are of key significance.
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Kizzy Cox,
Essence,
4 Nov. 2024
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The Ohio mojo has even worked when the national popular vote and the Electoral College tally produced different winners.
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Ron Elving,
NPR,
23 Mar. 2024
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Surveys like these are significant due to the Electoral College system, which awards each state a certain number of votes based on population.
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David Faris,
Newsweek,
10 July 2024
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