"You think Junior Bush has a shot?" Claude looked surprised.
The United States elections took place in two stages. The first round of voting was held on the first Tuesday of November when voters in each state selected the electors who represented their state. Then, on the third Monday of December, these electors voted in their state capitals to elect the next President of the United States. Generally, if a candidate received more than half of the popular votes in a state—since electing an elector is tantamount to casting a vote for one's preferred presidential candidate—then all of that state's electoral votes would go to them, even if half of the electors didn't support that candidate.
