the Electoral Collegea group of people chosen by the votes of the people in each US state, who come together to elect the president, or a similar group in other countries 〔由美国各州人民选出的代表组成的〕总统选举团;〔其他国家的〕领袖选举团
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the Electoral College• As the rule book insists, 12 weeks will elapse before the electoral college is convened.• The outcome, in the electoral college, is likely to be quite close.• Instead, the candidates have to put together a jigsawpuzzle of states, bagging their votes in the electoral college.• The most obviousexample is the electoral college, the phantom body that stands between voters and the final outcome.• That would deliver almost half of the tradeunion votes - 40 percent of the electoral college.• However, as it is for any poll, the Electoral Collegeoutlook is a snapshot in time, not a prediction.• If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.• Even under the electoral college rules, this achievement ought to make Gore the next president.
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electoral college• This leaves 143 electoral collegevotes in 14 swing states undecided.• Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaicelectoral college have receivedcomment.• Since the tradeunion votes count for 40 percent of the localelectoral college, Mr Davies was declared the nominee.• As the rule book insists, 12 weeks will elapse before the electoral college is convened.• But in the electoral college, Kennedy won by a comfortable 303 votes to 219 votes for Nixon.• If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.• This electoral college system must be scrapped.