Electoral College Importance

In this week’s discussion we talked about if the Electoral College and if it is important or not in our country today. Do we really need to have the Electoral College? I believe it is important in our country today and I believe we should try to keep it in our country for as long as we can.

The United States is established by democracy and the will of the general population, yet in the 2000 and 2016 elections, the majority of citizens in the United States voted in favor of the losing candidate. These outcomes are on the grounds that the decision of the President in the United States hangs solely on the Electoral College. The Electoral College is obsolete and should be abrogated for different reasons. The original purposes behind embracing the Electoral College were tailored to the time of its creation and never again apply in a modern democracy. Additionally, the Electoral College prompts political imbalance as the instances of federalism, unexpected elections, and the winner-take-all broad ticket framework demonstrates. One must

A number of Americans fail to realize that when they vote they are not voting for the president and vice-president directly, but for electors who then cast their ballots in the Electoral College. Until the recent battle between Gov. George W. Bush and Vice-president Al Gore for the presidency, this new generation of American voters has never witnessed a controversial election. Historically, there have been problematic elections allowing voters to question this system. The Electoral College is now a process open to criticism and debate, specifically because many do not understand its origin or purpose today. On November 7, 2000, Election Day, I was excited to become an official voter.

George Bush’s eventual triumph exposed everything: the pain of winner-takes all allocation of electors in 48 of the 50 states; the hazards of the electoral college, where if three electors with cold feet had votes for Al Gore instead of Bush then he would have won the presidency, Florida recount be damn; but, above all, the injustice of a system wherein the popular vote winner can lose.” There have been an alarming number of instances where the Electoral College set back the country due to the problems it has caused, and will continue to cause if it’s not replaced.

The 2000 presidential election was a major eye opener for many people. As it appeared to also be the dismay of many, the candidate who won the most popular votes nationwide actually lost the contest. In the election's risen moment, popular attention centered around the Electoral College and its role in the presidential election. Under the U.S. Constitution, the people did not necessarily direct vote for the President in a nationwide election; rather, the people in each state would vote for electors from that state, who in turn would cast the constitutionally decisive votes for President and Vice President. Moreover, not only is the people's influence indirect, the Electoral College's voting pattern does not necessarily track the national popular

Presidential elections in the United States are commonly unfair. One might think that the presidential candidate who receives the majority popular vote would be elected president. This is not always true, because of the Electoral College, which is a “winner-take-all” system. Ever since the election of 1824, when Andrew Jackson ran against John Quincy Adams who did not win the popular vote and was elected into office because of the Electoral College, many other candidates have been cheated out of winning. The Electoral College should not stand any longer because in many elections it has prevented the candidate that the majority of the citizens voted for from winning. It would be difficult if there were to be tie in the Electoral

The United States has used the Electoral College as a way to elect the president for over two hundred years and it is a main reason the smaller states have a chance to voice their opinion. The Electoral College has caused great debate within the US as to whether or not it is a political anachronism. The Electoral College consists of 538 total votes which are then divided up based on the population of each state and at least 270 electoral votes are required for a president to win the election. A consensus is taken every ten years to see if the population of each state has increased or decreased therefore changing the number of electoral votes it will receive. Some people argue that if the majority of the population wants a candidate to be president then that is the best way to elect someone but that is not necessarily true.

In 2000 George W. Bush was elected as the 43rd president of the United States. This was despite the fact he lost the popular vote. This was made possible by the Electoral College, the system the United States uses to elect the president (and vice president). Elector are the people appointed to vote for the president in the Electoral College system. These electors are appointed to the states based on the number of people in Congress (and 3 electors are given to the District of Columbia). In most states, electors pledged their votes based on their state’s popular vote. The candidate who receives an absolute majority of the electoral votes, wins the presidency. 1 For example, If a president won the popular vote in Minnesota,

Citizens should be given proper awareness and education concerning voting representatives for Electoral College before they vote. If the citizens of a state prefer for democrat to run for president then the people that they choose to represent the state should have the same views although in some cases the Electoral College chooses candidates different from the choice of popular votes, but that does not mean that it does not work. Some argue that the electoral college does not work, but there has been only 4 cases since the creation of United states this equates to 93% of the time the Electoral College ballots have reflected the consensus of the popular vote where the popular choice of candidate for president did not get elected , for instance the election of 2000 George W. Bush won the presidency, after weeks of controversy in Florida this made him the first President in more than 100 years to win election despite a popular vote loss, this led to calls for abolition of America's the Electoral College, which means that the electoral college is effective and not an embarrassment. "The Electoral College system gave individual states a key role, each state would choose electors equal to the number of representatives it had in the house in senate." If the citizens of states preferred for democrat to run for president then the people that they choose to represent the state should have the same

The United States, well known for its democracy, holds elections every four years to elect its President. Every American citizen over the age of 18 has a right to cast a vote in the presidential election. The voting process, although it seems easy and straightforward, can be very complicated. In the 2000 election, Al Gore captured the majority of votes, but George Bush won. The reason for this strange outcome and why Al Gore lost was because of the Electoral College. The Electoral College is voting system where different states are given a certain amount of votes in the election, and which ever candidate wins a state, is given that state’s votes. The Electoral College is out of date, and should be replaced by the Popular Vote system,

Since the fiasco that was the Presidential Election in the year 2000, many Americans have been calling for a reform of the Electoral College. Most of these people were Gore supporters; disillusioned by the fact that Bush won the office of the President while, in fact, he lost the popular vote. The American people did not elect George W. Bush; the Electoral College did.

Election Day is here! America is ecstatic to have the right to vote for what they believe in. Yet there is a 20 percent voter turnout? .300 trillion people residing in the country and only a fraction a million show up? America has fought so hard to protect the rights of the people only to have not participated. The Electoral College is an important role in the election of president. The president has so many role to take on and it is 300 billion people responsible to put the right man in office. That is extremely impertinent on grounds that American will not even show up. The Electoral College is a fair and equitable way to elect the president because it will protect America from no shows, allows small state to have a voice, and because society

The electoral college can be difficult to understand, especially when they say “every vote counts”, but the popular vote is not what decides who is president; instead, it only influences the electoral vote. Those who have been elected to cast the electoral vote take into account of who won the popular vote in the state, and then, 48 out of the 50 states use the “winner-take-all” system to vote for the appropriate candidate that won in their state. At times, the Electoral College is not the one to determine the next president. There are times when the election is passed over to the House of Representatives, where the next president will be selected. The Electoral College is undemocratic, over represents the small states, and gives no chance to third parties; therefore, it should be abolished.

In 2000, the Presidential election was between George W. Bush and Al Gore. After a reverification of the votes tallied in Florida, it had showed that Al Gore had won the popular vote but George W. Bush had won the Electoral Vote. In 2012, Al Gore had gone public with his loss and had suggested that the United States eliminate the use of the Electoral College. He brought up both pros and cons of the system but overall he was not distressed about the situation. As complex as the Electoral College is, there are many pros and cons of the system.

In recorded history there have been five instances where the United States has elected a President that did not achieve the office by popular vote, rather these politicians were elected by the system that our founding fathers enacted known as the Electoral College. This system was made to protect the people, and never to confront the very democracy that makes America the great country we all know and love. The Electoral College in recent years, has not lived up to the expectations that the Founding Fathers once wrote in the constitution. Because of the problems that have arisen, many believe that abrogating the Electoral College will not only benefit the American citizens, but as well as the government as a whole.