出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2024/10/08 03:07 UTC 版)
This term does not refer to the elastic nature of a state's voters; a state that votes 72% for Republicans in one election cycle and 62% in the next is not a swing state, even though a ten percent shift is an enormous change in voting results by modern American standards.
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/20 23:50 UTC 版)
In United States presidential politics, a swing state (also, battleground state or purple state) is a state in which no single candidate or party has overwhelming support in securing that state's electoral college votes. Such states are targets of both major political parties in presidential elections, since winning these states is the best opportunity for a party to gain electoral votes. Non-swing states are sometimes called safe states, because one candidate has strong enough support that he or she can safely assume that he or she will win the state's votes.