swing state

Examples of swing state in the following topics:

• The Electoral College

  • In nearly all states, electors are awarded to the candidate who wins the most votes in that state on a winner-take-all basis.
  • Critics argue that the Electoral College is inherently undemocratic and gives swing states disproportionate influence in electing the President and Vice President.
  • Swing states are those that are up for grabs in any given election; historically, they have swung back and forth between Democrats and Republicans.
  • However, many of them have large numbers of Electoral College votes, meaning that candidates play to voters in swing states more than in other states.
  • This shows the influence of the Electoral College on the prominence of swing states, those with small populations but large Electoral College votes.

• The General Election Campaign

  • Whichever candidate wins the majority of votes in the state receives that state's Electoral College votes.
  • Electoral College votes are divided proportionally based on state population, meaning that larger states have more influence in the election than smaller ones .
  • Because a candidate only needs to win a majority of votes in the state to receive all of its Electoral College votes, this system has lead to election strategies in which states with a solid Republican or Democratic majority are not contested by candidates.
  • Instead, candidates focus their campaigns on so-called "swing states. " Swing states are those without a clear majority party, in which all of the state's Electoral College votes are therefore up for grabs.
  • The most notorious swing states in recent years have been Florida and Ohio, since each is generally unpredictable, and each has a significant number of Electoral College electors.

• The Nomination Campaign

  • A United States presidential nominating convention is a political convention held every four years in the United States by most of the political parties who will be fielding nominees in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
  • Much of the modern electoral process is concerned with winning "swing states" through frequent visits and mass media advertising drives.
  • Presidents are elected indirectly in the United States.
  • On Election Day, voters in each of the states and the District of Columbia cast ballots for these electors.
  • Generally, the ticket that wins the most votes in a state wins all of that state's electoral votes, and thus has its slate of electors chosen to vote in the Electoral College.

• The 2008 Presidential Election

  • The Obama campaign also emphasized the experience Hillary Clinton would carry as Secretary of State.
  • While John McCain won the majority vote in traditionally Republican states and in his home state of Arizona, Barack Obama's wins in his home state of Illinois, the Northeast, and the swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania precluded a McCain victory.
  • Obama also won some of the southern states and the contested states of Iowa and New Mexico.

• Political Party Leader

  • The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States.
  • The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
  • Since the founding of the United States, the power of the president and the federal government have grown substantially, and each modern president, despite possessing no formal legislative powers beyond signing or vetoing congressionally passed bills, is largely responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of his party and the foreign and domestic policy of the United States .
  • These reports may be either written or oral, but today are given as the State of the Union Address, which often outlines the president's legislative proposals for the coming year.
  • Much of the modern electoral process is concerned with winning swing states through frequent visits and mass media advertising drives.

• The 2012 Presidential Election

  • Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected President of the United States on November 6th, 2012, serving a second term as the nation's first black president.
  • Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected President of the United States on Tuesday, November 6th, 2012.
  • The 2012 presidential election was the 57th quadrennial election in the United States.
  • Census changed the apportionment of votes in the Electoral College, potentially changing the allocation of votes among swing states.
  • Some states enacted new electoral laws in 2011.

• Agenda-Setting Theory

  • Much of the modern electoral process is concerned with winning swing states through frequent visits and mass media advertising drives.

• Electoral Districts

  • Seats in the United States House of Representatives, for instance, are reapportioned to individual states every 10 years following a census, with some states that have grown in population gaining seats.
  • The United States Senate, by contrast, is apportioned without regard to population; every state gets exactly two senators.
  • The United States Senate, by contrast, is apportioned without regard to population; every state gets exactly two senators.
  • Conversely, a swing seat is one that could easily swing either way.
  • In United Kingdom general elections, the voting in a relatively small number of swing seats usually determines the outcome of the entire election.

• Privacy Rights and Abortion

  • Abortion in the United States has been legal in every state since the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v.
  • Prior to the ruling, the legality of abortion was decided by each state; it was illegal in 30 states and legal under certain cases in 20 states.
  • That basic framework, modified in Casey, remains nominally in place, although the effective availability of abortion varies significantly from state to state.
  • Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and the two recent appointees, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, joined the swing vote, which came from moderate justice Anthony Kennedy.
  • Various states have passed legislation on the subject of feticide.

• The Powers of State Government

  • The legislative branch of the states consists of state legislatures.
  • In the majority of states, the state legislature is called the Legislature.
  • A supreme court that hears appeals from lower state courts heads the judicial branch in most states.
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  • Each of the state has its own government.