Why are swing states important?
The outcomes in swing states decide close presidential races. For example, in the 2000 election, the vote count showed that George Bush won Florida by just 537 votes. As a result, Bush received all of the state’s 25 Electoral votes, which allowed him to defeat Al Gore by a mere five Electoral votes. Once this outcome was ratified by a divided Supreme Court, Bush was declared President-despite receiving 544,000 fewer votes nationwide than Gore.
