Example Sentences

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You and your team deserve credit for eking out an electoral-college victory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2016

One searches the electoral-college map for signs of it.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2016

A couple of seasons ago, HBO’s “Veep” seemed to at last give Selina Meyer a party label, coloring her victorious states blue during her disastrous journey through an electoral-college stalemate.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2016

I have written lots about the text, history, structure, and context of these provisions and about closely related issues of legislative and electoral-college apportionment.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2016

As the most populous state, California holds over one in ten electoral-college votes.

From Economist • Jun. 28, 2012