Sentences with phrase «single electoral college»
Therefore, a candidate could win a single electoral college vote by winning one district in either state.
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You can win the electoral college and thus the presidency without accruing a single popular vote.
One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).