The winner is not the person (1)___________ gets the most votes overall.
(2)____________, both candidates compete to win contests held across the 50 states.
(3)____________ state has a certain number of so-called electoral college votes, partly based on population. There are a total of 538 up for (4)_____________ and the winner is the candidate that gets 270 or more.
All (5)__________ two states have a winner-takes-all rule, so (6)______________ candidate has the highest number of votes is awarded all of its electoral college votes.
Most states lean heavily towards one party or the other, so the focus is (7)___________ about seven states where (8)____________ of them could win. These are known (9)___________ the battleground or swing states.
It is possible for a candidate to win the (10)______________ votes nationally - as Hillary Clinton did in 2016 - but (11)_____________ be defeated.
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