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Definition of swing vote in English: swing votenoun US A vote that has a decisive influence on the result of a poll. 〈主美〉（对投票结果起决定作用的）独立选票 Example sentencesExamples - He was the key swing vote in both cases.
- The swing vote will be minorities and women in 2004, and the gender gap will be wider than in 2000.
- The moderates hold the swing vote in this country.
- Beyond the political swing vote, however, more important and more fundamental to liberating ourselves from dependence is creating an intellectual center.
- ‘You could have been the swing vote in our department,’ he said.
- With polls indicating the ANC will win two-thirds of the vote nationally, the swing vote will not determine the government of the day.
- France knows that it is the swing vote on the council.
- Because she was a crucial swing vote on so many cases, many conservative groups are prepared for a bare-knuckled - and possibly ugly - fight over her successor.
- Longtime mayor Jack Loucks held the swing vote on the matter and decided to vote in favour of the plan.
- And as so often, Sandra Day O'Connor was the swing vote.
- Last year she was the swing vote in a 5-4 ruling that said disabled people can sue if states ignore a civil rights law on access to courthouses.
- During the last 28 years, Catholics - who make up over a quarter of the total electorate - have proven to be an important swing vote.
- The swing vote is completely incomprehensible.
- Both sides have spent years preparing for the pivotal battle over who will succeed Justice O'Connor, the critical swing vote on abortion rights and other social issues.
- A swing vote, he has joined Democrats on some issues.
- The owner wants to be in control of that swing vote, which often means the owner is the swing vote.
- Each of the candidates already has formed his support base in the rightish/leftish wings of society, so both are now attempting to target the so-called swing vote.
- A minority can leverage its power by being a swing vote.
- There is also a very inspired black voter turnout, which in fact is the swing vote.
- She, often described as the all-important swing vote on the court, and her replacement is bound, certainly under the circumstances now, to create a major fight later this summer.
Derivativesnoun US If you're a middle income swing voter, this is an extra reason to go with National rather than Labour. Example sentencesExamples - Putting these trends together, it appears the quintessential swing voter is a retired woman with no formal party affiliation who lives relatively close to the Pacific Ocean.
- If you imagine you're a swing voter it's at best a draw so far, I think, ‘Goldberg replied midway through the night.’
- They say what their researchers tell them they have to say to get the swing voter.
- An elected president who seeks to reach beyond his party and appeal to the swing voter invites assault from his own ranks.
- That also meant losing any feeling for the real aspirations of those whom he purported to come from, who are the real swing voters who decide elections.
- Five more minutes, and I might have become a swing voter.
- For strategists of both parties, the contest for the new swing voter will begin.
- As a result, the all-important swing voter often sees little difference between candidates on the issues.
- Barring bad fate, if he gets on the court, he will be there for a quarter of a century, and replacing a swing voter clearly moves the court in a conservative direction.
- An inability to connect with swing voters followed, and electoral defeat.
- This is not an event designed to appeal to swing voters, independent voters.
- They are also trying to score points with minority voters, females, swing voters, and possibly even the press.
- From being Labour's saviour and electoral ace with the swing voter, he will become the man in the way.
- A passionate pitch that attracts another $100 from a core supporter might also repel a potential swing voter.
- When the electorate is even moderately large, however, the probability of being the swing voter is very small, perhaps even lower than the likelihood of being hit by a truck on the way to the polls.
- If, as expected, Labour goes along this path of pragmatism then it is likely to put the swing voter reasonably firmly in the Labour camp.
- A swing voter is defined by experts as one who could go either way.
- That brings us to the subject of our poll tonight on the highly coveted swing voter.
- Is it that highly sought-after swing voter, watching the news coverage from an arm chair hundreds of miles away?
Definition of swing vote in US English: swing votenoun US A vote that has a decisive influence on the result of an election. 〈主美〉（对投票结果起决定作用的）独立选票 Example sentencesExamples - He was the key swing vote in both cases.
- Both sides have spent years preparing for the pivotal battle over who will succeed Justice O'Connor, the critical swing vote on abortion rights and other social issues.
- ‘You could have been the swing vote in our department,’ he said.
- During the last 28 years, Catholics - who make up over a quarter of the total electorate - have proven to be an important swing vote.
- She, often described as the all-important swing vote on the court, and her replacement is bound, certainly under the circumstances now, to create a major fight later this summer.
- There is also a very inspired black voter turnout, which in fact is the swing vote.
- France knows that it is the swing vote on the council.
- With polls indicating the ANC will win two-thirds of the vote nationally, the swing vote will not determine the government of the day.
- The swing vote is completely incomprehensible.
- Last year she was the swing vote in a 5-4 ruling that said disabled people can sue if states ignore a civil rights law on access to courthouses.
- Longtime mayor Jack Loucks held the swing vote on the matter and decided to vote in favour of the plan.
- A minority can leverage its power by being a swing vote.
- Because she was a crucial swing vote on so many cases, many conservative groups are prepared for a bare-knuckled - and possibly ugly - fight over her successor.
- Beyond the political swing vote, however, more important and more fundamental to liberating ourselves from dependence is creating an intellectual center.
- The owner wants to be in control of that swing vote, which often means the owner is the swing vote.
- The moderates hold the swing vote in this country.
- The swing vote will be minorities and women in 2004, and the gender gap will be wider than in 2000.
- And as so often, Sandra Day O'Connor was the swing vote.
- Each of the candidates already has formed his support base in the rightish/leftish wings of society, so both are now attempting to target the so-called swing vote.
- A swing vote, he has joined Democrats on some issues.
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