Assertion: voter's state | /r/HasProperty | safe
Facets:
value: in recent elections
type: TEMPORAL
value: for themselves
type: PURPOSE
value: for a particular party
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for their opponents
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: respectively
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Because the national popular vote is irrelevant under the electoral college system, it is generally presumed that candidates base their campaign strategies around the existence of the Electoral College; any close race has candidates campaigning to maximize electoral votes by focusing their get-out-the-vote efforts in crucially needed swing states and not attempting to maximize national popular vote totals by using finite campaign resources to run up margins or close up gaps in states considered "safe" for themselves or their opponents, respectively.
text: Many small states are also considered to be "safe" for one of the two political parties and are also generally ignored by campaigners: of the 13 smallest states, six are reliably Democratic, six are reliably Republican, and only New Hampshire is considered as a swing state, according to critic George C. Edwards III in 2011.
text: In contrast, states with large populations such as California, Texas, and New York, have in recent elections been considered "safe" for a particular party