the Electoral College

noun

: a group of people chosen from each U.S. state who meet to elect the President and Vice President of the U.S. based on the votes of all the people in each state

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Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million but lost in the Electoral College. —

Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024 Still, the man with the huge smile and genteel Georgia drawl handily won the Electoral College by 297-240 but received only 50.1% of the popular vote to Ford’s 48%. —

Marty Steinberg, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2024 Lichtman used his 13-keys method to predict that Harris would win the White House, while Silver's data analysis showed Trump had a better chance of winning the Electoral College. —

Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024 That Gore had also narrowly won the popular vote while losing the Electoral College made his defeat especially painful and unjust. —

Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the Electoral College

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