How to Use the Electoral College in a Sentence

the Electoral College

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• Because of the outcome of the 2020 census, blue states lost votes in the Electoral College.
  — Aron Solomon, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• 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.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• In 2016, Clinton won the popular vote comfortably but lost the Electoral College to Trump.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2023
• Members of the Electoral College meet in each state Capitol and cast their votes, officially giving Biden the win.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2023
• Our nation would not have come together had our Founding Fathers not agreed to the Electoral College.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 30 May 2024
• So the Republican Party has to ask itself, election denialism: is this the road to 270 in the Electoral College?
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2023
• And what role might individuals in the Electoral College play?
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• Although her relative strength with white voters for a Democrat augurs well because of the bias of the Electoral College, correct?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
• That gave Trump the Electoral College, but not a popular-vote majority.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 Apr. 2023
• But these states occupied the center of the Electoral College in those presidential contests.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2023
• Based on pure polling, if the election were held today Biden would almost certainly lose the Electoral College count decisively.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
• Prior to the Twelfth Amendment of 1804, each member of the Electoral College cast two votes with no distinction between president and vice president.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques, TIME, 6 July 2024
• 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.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2024
• 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.
  — Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Their relationship has essentially been over since Trump refused to accept the results of the Electoral College.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• The Ohio mojo has even worked when the national popular vote and the Electoral College tally produced different winners.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
• Surveys like these are significant due to the Electoral College system, which awards each state a certain number of votes based on population.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• If no candidate receives a majority of the total number of electoral votes, the Electoral College becomes deadlocked and can’t choose a winner.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023
• In the newborn republic, by contrast, the framers set limits on power through four-year presidential terms renewable only by the voters through the Electoral College.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• He was also elected by the slightest of margins, losing the popular vote, but winning the Electoral College by one vote after a ruling by an Electoral Commission.
  — Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2024
• Virginia, with its two Democratic senators and recent tendency to swing blue in the Electoral College, might have gone overlooked as a battleground state in recent years.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Thanks to the Electoral College system, voters are selecting statewide delegates, who will cast their vote for president on behalf of their state's residents.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• Still, the Biden campaign did not predict that the verdict will change the contest, which polls show is exceedingly tight, especially in the critical battleground states needed to prevail in the Electoral College.
  — New York Times, The Mercury News, 31 May 2024
• In most presidential elections, whoever wins the popular vote also wins 270 electoral votes in the Electoral College.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023
• Nathan happened to become the very first female vice presidential candidate in history to receive a vote in a U.S. presidential election in the Electoral College.
  — Richard Boddie, Orange County Register, 28 May 2024
• The final wrinkle is the Electoral College, the 538 electors nationwide who actually, formally elect the president and vice president.
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2024
• The adviser said the campaign does not anticipate that the verdict will change the contest, which polls show is exceedingly tight, especially in the critical battleground states needed to prevail in the Electoral College.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 31 May 2024
• The law created a system for electing statewide officials that was similar to the Electoral College — and that drastically reduced the political power of Black voters.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Why Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania has 19 votes in the Electoral College.
  — Laura Fay, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2024
• Richard Maurer proposes that Congress abolish the Electoral College.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024