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?
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2024
• Because of the outcome of the 2020 census, blue states lost votes in the Electoral College.
  — Aron Solomon, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• Then, the electors of the Electoral College will meet in their states to certify the results.
  — Addy Bink, The Hill, 6 Nov. 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
• There are no signs of any serious effort to delay or disrupt the Electoral College count.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2024
• 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 former president is given slightly better than even odds in the Electoral College.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Nov. 2024
• There are going to be state legislators that refuse to certify the Electoral College.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 5 Nov. 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
• The Democratic Party blew it fair and square, and over half the voting nation and an overwhelming percentage of the Electoral College will raise their hands to move on and go with a new vision of the country’s future.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Nov. 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
• 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.
  — Jared Gans, The Hill, 2 Nov. 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

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024