Sentence examples for decisive state from inspiring English sources

The decisive state in the 2000 election, of course, was Florida.

Neither figure is sufficient for a majority of the Electoral College -- so had the 1996 election been closer over all, Pennsylvania would have been the decisive state.

And Missouri has fallen off the list of tipping point states, meaning that it is very unlikely to be a decisive state in determining the winner of the Electoral College.

But had he suffered a sudden decline at the end of the race, Colorado or Iowa — not Ohio — would have been the decisive state (or what we call the tipping-point state in FiveThirtyEight parlance).

It is worth keeping in mind — indeed, it is worth harping on — that our forty-third President holds office only because a judicial order stifled the vote count in a decisive state, thereby letting stand a preliminary total that was incomplete, distorted by irregularities, at odds with the will of the national electorate, and almost certainly wrong in its outcome.

With the beginning of the new century, the European EGS Project got into its decisive state by reaching the final reservoir depth of 5 km.

"It's going to be terribly close, and I think it could end up being one of the two or three decisive states," he said.

The reason that Clinton lost the electoral college, and in turn the election, was that she failed to appeal to enough white women, especially in decisive states.

Yet in fact, post-election polling and exit polls confirm that Trump flipped decisive states because he connected with voters' fury about job-killing trade deals.

After all, Kasich was celebrating his decisive home state victory in front of a friendly hometown crowd – save one pro-Trump protester who interrupted the start of his victory speech but was led out, without incident, by security.

Those citizens not living in the decisive battleground states have gotten little of the candidates' time and a smaller share of their advertising budgets.