Sentence examples for electoral stake from inspiring English sources

"The Air Force shrewdly spread the plane's contracts to firms in 46 states," Mr Kaplan explains, "thus giving a solid majority of senators and a lot of House members, too a financial (and, therefore, electoral) stake in the program's survival".

The uncertainty about the outcome, in fact, turned it into a truly breaking news event, though the networks rarely lingered on the fact that the electoral stakes in Iowa were small.

Walsh, the U.S. attorney in Colorado, was less concerned about the electoral stakes.

That means the electoral stakes are high in 2018, and Democrats must fight to keep up their numbers.

The Latino population is also disproportionately young and is concentrated in non-battleground states, where electoral stakes are not as high.

Wiseman captured the electoral stakes right from the jump: "The improving economy is swinging the pendulum in President Barack Obama's favor in the 14 states where the presidential election will probably be decided".

Our study did not investigate this particular point, nor did it analyse the possible impact of the political benefits or electoral stakes of this decision or the role of the coincidence in this process.

With 18 electoral votes at stake, both candidates are treating the state as if they were running for governor.

OPINION An editorial on Friday about the Electoral College misstated the number of electoral votes at stake in the 1936 presidential election.

And with only three electoral votes at stake and (at least) one long plane ride to get here from just about anywhere, few presidential candidates have come calling for residents' money.

In 1968, when untrammelled street protest and high-stakes electoral politics collided at the Democratic Convention, in Chicago, the prevailing mode of crowd control was the crushing show of force.