I will be discussing the detriments and downfalls of the Electoral College. Now‚ before we delve into the gritty details of what the Electoral College actually is and how it functions‚ I must ask‚ do you actually know how the President of the United States is elected? The majority of Americans would simply say that they cast their vote and call it a day. They are entirely complacent with the system because they feel grounded in the belief that they are the ones truly in power. They believe in the
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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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I’m going to be talking about if we should eliminate the electoral college. On December 13‚ 2000‚ vice president Al Gore conceded the presidential election to Governor Bush. A day earlier‚ a lengthy and expensive manual vote recount process in Florida was stopped by the United States supreme court despite Bush leading by only 537 votes with Bush winning the states by 25 electoral votes put him over the needed threshold of 275. This election result was highly unusual not just because of Supreme Court
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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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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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coincide with the electoral vote. The fact that Trump won the election even after losing the popular vote by over one million votes‚ brought an already ongoing debate to the forefront: To keep the electoral college or not? Some critics believe that it creates an emphasis on largely populated states and others argue that low-populated states are given greater‚ unfair representation. Regardless‚ both arguments share a common thread: an inequitable representation. The electoral college should be abolished
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Alexander Hamilton was the chief architect of the electoral college since he distrusted popular democracy. He said that the electoral college would ensure that a few men of insight and reflection would select the ablest president. Specifically‚ he wrote‚ "A small number of persons‚ selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass would act under circumstances favorable to deliberation" (Wright 59). Hamilton believed that the electoral college system would reduce civic unrest if public participation
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