Sentences with phrase «award electoral college»

State - by - state winner - take - all laws to award electoral college votes were eventually enacted by 48 states AFTER the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

Maine and Nebraska both award their electoral college votes according to the winner of each of their congressional districts.

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By contrast, the unit rule (by which states award all their electoral votes to the plurality winner in the state) that 48 states employ under the electoral college encourages third parties, especially regional candidates like Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968.