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Week 4 Discussion: o Option 1: List the ways in which contemporary presidential campaigns have used social media as a campaign tool. Do you consider social media as a successful tool? Explain your answer. Do you see social media as an unsuccessful tool? Explain your answer and provide examples. o Option 2 : There are numerous discussions involving the Electoral College. There are some people that want to abolish the electoral college while others want to keep it. What do you think? Keep the electoral college or abolish it? Explain the reasons for your choice. Answer: Option 2 The Electoral College is the process in which leads the election for the President of the United States. Most citizens believe the popular vote is how the President is elected, but the Electoral College is. It is made up of 538 members. The candidate which receives at least 270 of the votes, is the winner of the election and therefore gains the title of President of the United States of America. The topic of abolishing the electoral college steams from the want to have a more representative democracy in the United States. This move would ensure that each vote is counted equally (Lau, 2021). Some downfalls to the Electoral College is that smaller states can carry a bigger influence due to being guaranteed minimum electoral votes of 3 (Greenberg & Page, 2018). Unequal voting power can be the result. For example, in Wyoming the electoral college vote weights four times as much as the individual vote in a big state like Texas. This results in Wyoming carrying one elector for every 177,556 people and Texas carrying one elector for every 715,499 people (The Center for Voting and Democracy). I believe abolishing the Electoral College and instating the popular voting system for electing the President would show the United States citizens that each vote counts as an individual say. In the past, candidates have lost the wide popular vote, but because they won Electoral College votes, they won presidency. This is exactly why some citizens do not vote, their voice carries little weight in the outcome. Moving towards the popular vote as opposed to the Electoral College can show the people that their voice is significant. While no voting system is perfect, including the popular vote, it would better show that the majority voice of the people is being heard and utilized. References: Lau, T. (2021). The Electoral College, explained. Brennan Center for Justice. http://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/electoral- college-explained Links to an external site. Greenberg, E. S & Page, B. I. (2018). The Struggle for Democracy, 2018 Elections and Updates Edition. (12th ed.). Pearson The Center for Voting and Democracy. Problems with Electoral College. FairVote. https://archive3.fairvoted.org/reforms/national-popular- vote/the-electoral-college/problems- Links to an external site. with-the- electoral-college/
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