How to Use the Electoral College in a Sentence

the Electoral College

noun
  • Again, the votes spread out just right for the Electoral College.
    — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • This week, the topic was the Electoral College.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
  • Each state appoints electors, who then vote in the Electoral College.
    — Alauna Safarpour, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Then, the electors of the Electoral College will meet in their states to certify the results.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
  • There are no signs of any serious effort to delay or disrupt the Electoral College count.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million but lost in the Electoral College.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
  • But because of its winner-take-all nature, the Electoral College isn't a good measure of closeness.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 26 Nov. 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
  • Because of the outcome of the 2020 census, blue states lost votes in the Electoral College.
    — Aron Solomon, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • Some Democrats said the changes mean the party needs to find a new strategy to have a path to victory in the Electoral College.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Trump has reason to celebrate winning both the Electoral College and the popular vote.
    — Riley Hoffman, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • In the United States, the winner of the Electoral College vote wins the presidency.
    — Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Like the Electoral College, these rules gave all the seats to the party that won a majority of the popular vote for House candidates.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The senators are troubled that the Electoral College has twice elected a candidate who didn’t win the popular vote in the past 19 years.
    — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Biden won the popular vote by more than 7 million votes and the Electoral College by a 306-232 margin.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 7 June 2026
  • Think of the anxious Republicans of 2009, who for a time believed they might be locked out of the Electoral College for good.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 2 May 2025
  • Kamala Harris lost both the Electoral College and the popular vote to Trump in 2024.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
  • That’s a big deal in an era when presidential contests are typically decided by razor-thin margins in states that rule the Electoral College.
    — David M. Drucker, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Trump won the popular vote and the Electoral College to secure the White House for a second, nonconsecutive term.
    — Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 7 July 2025
  • There are calls not only to pack the Supreme Court or to ignore its decisions, but also to abolish the Senate and the Electoral College.
    — Robert A. Ballingall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
  • There is a legitimate debate among historians about the extent to which slavery influenced the creation of the Electoral College.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
  • However, none of these actions affect presidential elections, which are decided in the Electoral College.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • By the time certification happens, the popular vote has long been counted, the Electoral College totals officially called.
    — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Voters have rejected the incumbent party, in the Electoral College outcome and the popular vote, in the past two presidential elections.
    — Joelle Gross, NBC news, 25 June 2026
  • 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
  • By 2020, this meant that Democrats could win just 41% of the white vote, take the Electoral College, and control the House and Senate.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 6 May 2026
  • Congress certified the Electoral College’s vote, and Bush was inaugurated.
    — Matthew Hall, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2022

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