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
• In the United States, the winner of the Electoral College vote wins the presidency.
  — Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
• Each state appoints electors, who then vote in the Electoral College.
  — Alauna Safarpour, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024
• In 2020, Trump came within really a handful of votes in a few states of winning in the Electoral College.
  — NBC News, 22 Sep. 2024
• 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.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 Oct. 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
• 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.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 7 Sep. 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
• 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.
  — Kaleigh Rogers, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• That gave Trump the Electoral College, but not a popular-vote majority.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 Apr. 2023
• Despite Democrats winning the popular vote in recent elections, outcomes often hinge on key swing states due to the Electoral College.
  — Tonya Evans, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• But these states occupied the center of the Electoral College in those presidential contests.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2023
• 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.
  — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 24 Sep. 2024
• The messiness of the process led to calls to abolish the Electoral College altogether—a divisive political issue to this day.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The data point to another close call, and perhaps to a divergence between the Electoral College and popular-vote results.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The big picture: Democrats have railed against the Electoral College, which has favored Republicans in recent cycles due to the disproportionate power of small states.
  — Neal Rothschild, Axios, 27 Oct. 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024