Electoral College: The Influence Of Interest Groups In Politics

However, interest groups reflect the will of the people. For example, “one way that interest groups try to influence government is by contributing money to political parties and candidates during election campaigns” (Hart 143). Those interest groups are consist of lots of member with same will, opinion, and desire to take action to accomplish their goals. From the memberships they have, they could maintain their group, so they can support the candidates who has same interest and will. Once the interest group has enough money and power, they’re become enable to influence policy by using another method in order to become powerful source of influence the will of the people. For example, “ lobbying advance [people’s] interests. Lobbying influence the policy process by persuading public officials to favor or oppose action on a specific issue… [and] provide useful information that helps officials create policies that serve the public interest” (144). Without lobbying the government and congress would not be able to serve satisfied policies to people.

The media conflicts the will of the people by being biased
However, the Electoral College reflects the will of the people. For example, “ the candidate winning the popular vote captures all of that states’ Electoral College votes… Electoral College votes based on the popular vote in each of the states’ congressional districts” (Hart 183). If majority people of the states vote on same presidential candidate and if most of the votes of each state lean on a candidate then that presidential candidate would most likely to get that states' electoral vote because it reflects the will of the people by uniting their