Are You Being Cheated? Over the years the Electoral College has been proven to be outdated. People wonder constantly if their vote counts anymore or‚ if this method is affective any longer. There are three main reasons why the Electoral College is outdated and should be abolished. The presidential candidates only pay attention to the states with the most Electoral votes‚ we also have a larger and more educated population then when this was originally set up‚ lastly it does not seem as if your vote
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and the Electoral College (is reform needed?): DQ1 has four parts‚ and note that part 4 has two sub-parts: 1. Briefly summarize how the Electoral College works. 2. Briefly explain the pros and cons of whether to keep or abolish the Electoral College. 3. Briefly explain one proposal for changing the Electoral College process without abolishing it (i.e.‚ without having to amend the Constitution). 4. Evaluate this proposal from two perspectives: (a) the relevance of the Electoral College’s
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"The majority does not rule and every vote is not equal - those are reasons enough for scrapping the system. But there are other consequences as well. This election has been making clear how the Electoral College distorts presidential campaigns. A few swing states take on oversized importance‚ leading the candidates to focus their attention‚ money and promises on a small slice of the electorate." The 2000 election caused a lot of controversies. It took five weeks to determine the Presidency and
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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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Ida Campbell The Electoral College: Good or Bad? The United States Electoral College is the group that is responsible for electing the President and the Vice President every four years. Contrary to popular belief‚ the United States is not a “true” democracy in the rawest sense of the word in part because of our electoral college. The mechanics of the United States Electoral College is fairly simple. Each state is assigned a certain number of electors. The number is derived from the total
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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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Love and Loss over a Broken-Down Volkswagen Beetle in ’We Keep on Dancing’ By Monica Sztybel A Volkswagen Beetle serves as a reminder of a lost love in the Australian short film We Keep on Dancing by Jessica Barclay Lawton and Rhys Mitchell. Alan (William Gluth) is mourning the loss of his wife‚ Christine. It’s her birthday today and he was on his way to the cemetery to bring her gifts‚ driving her favorite old car. A breakdown cuts short his plans‚ and Alan pushes the car into the nearest garage
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leading up to and after the 2016 presidential election I have been thinking about the impact effect of the electoral college. The electoral college is made up of the number of state members in the house of representatives and the number of state members in the senate. In Kansas we have 6 electoral college votes because we have 4 house of representatives and 2 senators. The electoral college was originally designed so each state could choose representatives to cast their states vote in the presidential
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“Should we have sports in college?” College sports are as important as education‚ as a healthy mind is a healthy body is a well-known adage” All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” Thus‚ may sport be the reasons behind good grades in college. Lack of exercising affects our minds negatively‚ involving our students in inappropriate habits‚ fewer mental skills and increasing the rates of diseases in their bodies as well as‚ provide scholarship will convince students to continue their education
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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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