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What is the Electoral College and how does the US use it to elect presidents?

It is different from the popular vote, and it has an outsize impact on how candidates run and win campaigns.

Mia Lemon, 13, an eighth grader at Skyline Middle School, marks Nevada as a blue state as she counts ballots cast by her fellow students during the school's mock presidential election
FILE – Mia Lemon, 13, an eighth grader at Skyline Middle School, marks Nevada as a blue state as she counts ballots cast by her fellow students during the school’s mock presidential election Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, in Harrisonburg, Va. (Nikki Fox/Daily News-Record via AP, File)
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It is different from the popular vote, and it has an outsize impact on how candidates run and win campaigns.

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