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Where campaigning takes place only on a few places of the country. It is indeed not the popular vote that determines the elections but the number of electoral votes. When a candidate wins in one state, he gets all the electoral votes of this state. The two parties thus do not campaign in the states where they are sure to win -or to lose- and put all their money and energy in the swinging states. To have a map of the swinging states, it is here.
Where campaigning takes place only on a few places of the country. It is indeed not the popular vote that determines the elections but the number of electoral votes. When a candidate wins in one state, he gets all the electoral votes of this state. The two parties thus do not campaign in the states where they are sure to win -or to lose- and put all their money and energy in the swinging states. To have a map of the swinging states, it is here.
