How to Use electoral college in a Sentence

electoral college

noun
  • Trump's edge in the electoral college came from close wins in swing states.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 6 July 2020
  • Take the case of our blithe acceptance of the electoral college.
    — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The poll looked at the overall vote, not the electoral college breakdown.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Even so, polling suggests a tight race for the state’s 15 electoral college votes.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Trump lost both the popular vote and the electoral college vote to Biden.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
  • This left Tilden just one electoral college vote short of victory.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The man lost by 4 million popular votes and still had a chance to win the electoral college.
    — Christi Carras Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Most states have some kind of regulation as to how members of the electoral college should vote.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2020
  • In another, the camera zooms in on King in front of the electoral college map.
    — Giulia Heyward and Saba Hamedy, CNN, 6 Nov. 2020
  • In the electoral college system, the person who receives the most votes overall may not win.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Kamala Harris wants to get rid of the electoral college and ban fracking.
    — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Trump, who is behind in the current electoral college county, has vowed to fight the results.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 6 Nov. 2020
  • An attempt to change the state’s electoral college system failed last week on an 8-36 vote.
    — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Jimmy Carter squeaked by in Texas, by three points, and in the electoral college by 57 votes.
    — Rick Perlstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Arizona has 11 electoral college votes, placing it in a tie for 14th-most votes among states.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The winner of the presidential race will get the state's 13 electoral college votes.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Members of the electoral college convened in each state Tuesday to cast votes for the candidate who won their state.
    — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This is part of the reason Democrats loathe the electoral college these days and Republicans love it.
    — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2020
  • But Nixon had won in the electoral college and was now president-elect of the United States.
    — Patrick J. Buchanan, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
  • This time around, the campaign plans to pour millions of dollars into the state in order to win its 10 electoral college votes.
    — Mario Parker, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2019
  • In a game of inches—as the 2016 battle for the electoral college was—that could make the difference.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • And then this was going to be, to witness history, the certification of the electoral college is a big deal.
    — ABC News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • In 2020, a vote shift of less than a percentage point in three close-run states would have changed the outcome in the electoral college.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
  • At issue in the race is how deep-red Nebraska splits its electoral college votes in presidential elections.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • The path to 270 electoral college votes appeared to favor Biden late Wednesday, but was still too close to call.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Remember that Democrats won the popular vote by two points in 2016, but still lost the electoral college.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Theology, the electoral college, ticks and AI, in readers' eyes.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2026
  • On the phone with Pence, Pelosi expressed a desire to move forward with the process of affirming the electoral college results.
    — Caroline Linton, Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • With the exception of Maine and Nebraska, states award all of their electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote in their state.
    — Jessica Gresko, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2020
  • But a 1 to 2 percentage point Biden popular vote win equates to just a 22% chance of a Biden electoral college win.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2020

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