terminate the Electoral College. Many sources of evidence support this decision. First‚ one should discover the time when the Electoral College came into American government and how it works. After that‚ one should understand why states have an issue with the Electoral College. Concerning the before mentioned comments‚ many will agree that the Electoral College is merely tradition and is not necessary for our modern American elections. First‚ exploration of the beginning of the Electoral College is worth
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I will state my position towards the electoral college along with the pros and cons leading to my choice. I will explain why the people should want to keep it along with why some don’t want to trust it. I will also explain what will happen if it goes away because we know what it does. The Electoral College always has it’s finger prints on the elections and more importantly on the very close elections. Both parties Republican and Democrat candidate feel at times as if they win the popular vote they
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Is The Electoral College A Fair And Equitable Way To Elect The President Of The United States? The electoral college is not a fair and equitable way to elect the president of the United States. What if your vote was actually used to elect someone you don’t even know to cast a presidential vote for you? Members in the electoral college are expected‚ but not required to vote for the same party you did‚ so what if they voted for another party? Is that fair? The electoral college is a set
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Yes the Electoral college should be taken out of the constitution.The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states‚ for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win. This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president
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The Electoral College is a collection of 538 votes that will determine who the next President is. This 538 is the same number of Senators and representatives in Congress combined. The 538 votes are devided among the states based on the population of each state‚ but each state‚ including District of Colombia‚ is given three votes to start. The people of each state do not vote directly for the President‚ rather they vote to tell the electors who to vote for. (New York Times‚ 2008) “There are a total
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The Electoral college is a very controversial subject that has a big impact on American history. Every four years‚ people vote for the president… Or do they? You actually vote for electors that represent your state‚ and the bigger states get more electors. Sounds perfect right? Wrong. The way the electors are distributed is not perfect‚ and three times in American history‚ the person who won the popular vote did not win the electoral vote. That happened in 1888‚ 2000‚ and 2016. Because of this‚ electoral
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president of the united states has been elected via the electoral college. Despite its long-time usage‚ the electoral college has many critics. Various people‚ wish for the president to be elected via a popular vote. While others‚ continue to be happy with usage of the electoral college. Others‚ simply are confused by the process of the electoral college all together. This leads to many political scientists to question if the electoral college is in fact effective‚ or if a popular vote would be better
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My Opinion on the Electoral College The Electoral College is the current system America uses to elect the president. How this systems works is when you vote‚ you aren’t really voting‚ you are telling an elector where you would like your vote to go to. Once everyone has voted‚ the elector votes for a candidate based on the votes of the people. There are anywhere from three to about 55 electors per state. I believe this system should be replaced with the popular vote method. One of reasons I believe
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Proposed Amendment to Abolish Electoral College The Framers created the Electoral College in the Constitution over 300 years ago‚ and the system exists even today. The Electoral College’s purposes include giving power to small states and to give people the indirect power to elect the president‚ so that the wrong candidate would not win the election. However‚ many people contemplate whether the Electoral College should still exist. One major reason why includes the most recent presidential election
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American Government and Politics Argue for or against the electoral college The 2000 United States (U.S.) presidential election concluded with Vice President Al Gore winning half a million more popular votes than George W. Bush (50‚992‚335 to 50‚455‚156) yet losing the White House in the Electoral College by only five votes (271 to 266). It once again raised questions about the validity of the Electoral College as the same scenario has occurred in the 1824‚ 1876‚ and 1888 presidential elections
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