California gets 54 electoral votes (it has two senators and 52 congressional districts).
The winner is the candidate who gets 270 or more electoral votes.
If no candidate gets to 270 electoral votes, the House of Representatives picks the winner from among the candidates who got electoral votes.
The campaigns will focus more attention on the fewer than one-third of all electoral votes they consider to be up for grabs or winnable by either party.
Two states, Maine and Nebraska, apportion some of their electoral votes by congressional district rather than giving all of them to the state winner.
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