The Electoral Process

Essay Component In order to understand how some candidates of the United States of America because to be president without winning the popular vote, we first have to understand the process which this country uses: The Electoral College. Each state has a different amount of electoral votes based on the members the state has in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. However, because the population of a state may change, so does the amount of administrators in the House of Representatives, this process being called reapportionment. On the other hand, because each state is fixed to have two representatives for the Senate, there will be two more electors for that state on top of the electors it has from the House of Representatives.
I believe that a candidate’s job is not to focus on states that grant essential votes, but to concentrate their campaign on as many single states as possible. With the Electoral College system in effect, even if a huge portion of the state disagrees with the views of the nominee, but still is less than half, the whole state would have to be represented as in favor of that presidential contender because of the “winner take all” process that states practice. The Founding Fathers did not agree with a popular vote as the result of fear of the population electing an inexperienced individual to run this nation, but that was in 1787, where communication was hard to travel state by state. In today’s society, everybody is better informed about an election because of media, internet and news. Also, there are more educated people today; schooled civilians tend to be more engaged in politics and governmental issues and less effected by beliefs that they grew up with. Therefore, I conceive the concept of having a popular vote system as well as the idea of the Founding Fathers accepting this today for the choosing of president instead of the Electoral College system that was implemented in 1787, over two centuries