Sentence examples for the 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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
We require them to realize out projects by supporting stamina and providing a decisive state of mind.
Those citizens not living in the decisive battleground states have gotten little of the candidates' time and a smaller share of their advertising budgets.
But as the votes were counted in the decisive swing states, particularly the three biggest of Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio, Mr Bush's victory began to look certain.The first of the big three to be called by analysts was Pennsylvania, which fell relatively comfortably to Mr Kerry, as pre-election polls showed it might.
"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.
