Presidential Election Process Of The United States

The 1980 presidential election of the United States featured three primary candidates, Republican Ronald Reagan, Democrat Jimmy Carter and liberal Republican John Anderson. Ronald Reagan was the governor of California before he decided to run for the presidency. John Anderson was a representative in Illinois and Carter was the incumbent. The lengthy Iran hostage crisis sharpened public opinions by the beginning of the election season. In the 1970s, the United States were experiencing a straining episode of low economic growth, high price increases and interest rates and an irregular energy crisis. The sense of discomfort in both domestic and foreign affairs in the nation were heading downward, this added to the downward spiral that was already going on. Between Carter, Anderson and Reagan, the general election campaign of the 1980s seemed more concerned with shadowboxing around political issues rather than a serious discussion of the issues that concerned voters.

The Electoral College is one of those things that differentiate the American electoral process from the rest of the world. It is an old institution that has been fundamental to the American political system ever since the Declaration of Independence. There have been calls to disband this way of voting to join the rest of the world with the ordinary populace voting. During the month of November in a presidential election year, every state holds an election in which all citizens who qualify may participate. They cast a ticket for president and his vice president. After this voting, the winning party is allowed to choose a slate of

Five of the fifty-eight total United States Presidential elections in history have ended in discrepancies between the popular vote and the electoral vote; on average, the president elected into office was not actually favored by the majority of Americans almost ten percent of the time. We need to acknowledge the fact that this, along with the Electoral College system as a whole, undermines our foundation in democracy. Additionally, the Electoral College is based in slavery and oppression and is therefore not indicative of the social progress that America has made since the Constitution’s ratification. Because of this, I am proposing an amendment to eradicate the Electoral College and instead elect presidents by direct popular vote. This would end an antiquated, obsolete, and arguably undemocratic practice that continues to plague us despite centuries of progress as a nation.

The Electoral College was established with the best of intentions of representing the American people; however, over time, this antiquated system has failed the American people. The people of the United States deserve better as the Electoral College is no longer a representation of the nation’s voices and concerns. Instead, the political machine has corrupted this deep-rooted system with each modification. The way the people of the United States elect the President and Vice President, requires an update for this timeworn democratic process.

The Electoral College in the United States is not a place but a process. It was a process our founding fathers established in the Constitution. It is a complicated voting system that most citizens today do not understand. The Electoral College has been in place for well over two hundred years and is unfortunately showing its age. Most people believe that when they vote in a general election for the President, they truly believe they are voting for the president. This has shown to be the case many times in the past elections, but it has happened that the candidate who won the popular vote was not elected President by the Electoral College. The Process spelled out in the Constitution as written by our founding fathers known as the Electoral College needs to be replaced with a better method that truly represents the will and vote of the American people.

There has always been a history behind everything that the U.S. government has done. So why would the presidential selection process be any different. When looking at this procedure, unlike the Electoral College, the nominating of the presidential candidates are not spelled out in the constitution. Seeing as the constitution was written in the late 1700’s there were no political parties to speak of.

As the first Democrat in nearly 20 years to hold the position, Bill Clinton saw a successful, yet embattled tenure in the office of the presidency. As he looked to pass the torch to his Vice President Albert Gore Jr, a virtually unchallenged bid in the Democratic primary, as he carried all of the delegates, with the stance and platform of being a more moderate alternative to the liberal Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. The Republican Party was locked in a more challenged series of primaries with the two frontrunners being Senator John McCain of Arizona, and Governor George W. Bush of Texas. The major third party candidates were consumer advocate of the Green Party Ralph Nader, and his running mate Winona LaDuke, as

The electors of the Electoral college are chosen in a two-part process. The first process is for the political parties to elect possible electors before the actual election. Each state has a political party, that favor more than the other. Some states are more towards a democratic state while other states are towards the republican party. Each election can have a different outcome of who the state chooses to favor. Most states will still favor the political party that they did in the previous election, but there is not a law that states they cannot change their minds in the next election. It all depends on the people. For example, California used to be a Republican state back in the 1970’s up to the late 1980’s but then became a Democratic

The electoral College was developed at the first constitutional convention in 1787 by James Wilson. The idea of the electoral college was influenced by how Rome would elect the Pope around the same time. During the Constitutional Convention they bounced around several ideas on which way would be most effective to elect a president. The number of electors was dependent upon the number of people in that states senate, (will always be 2) and the number of the people that state had in the House, (which fluctuates every decade depending on that states census.) Choosing the electors was left up to the state, but to avoid the college choosing a “favorite” they had to cast two votes, one of which had to be for someone out of their home state. The electoral college was originally designed for use without political parties and without national campaigns,both of which we have today. While the electoral college was a good system for the original thirteen states it was developed for, there needs to be a better or more direct way to elect a president of the united states.

The United States Electoral College is ultimately the way the President is elected. The electors are first picked from their state party, and then on election day they are voted on, based on their party. Then those electors take the popular vote from their state to either pursued their vote, or not. The electors are under no obligation to vote in the way that their state did. This is one reason why sometime the popular vote and the electoral votes don’t agree.

The constitution lets the Electoral College choose the winner, versus Time to end the Electoral College.

The Electoral College is a very detailed and organized election process with a strong hold on the political parties.

I remember learning about the whole process of voting when I was in elementary school back when cavemen walked the earth. My great grandmother taught me that the Democrats helped people, but Republicans were smart. I doubt if she would feel the same about Republicans today. In Puerto Rico she became a republican only because the party promised her a job if she joined the Republican Party. When she moved to New York although she followed politics on television by watching the Spanish language channels she never voted. In those days between the 1950s and up until 1970s Puerto Ricans were invisible when it came to any political agenda. There were no drives to get them to the polling places and voting materials were not offered in Spanish.

The contemporary Electoral College goes a little something like this: Each state receives a number of electoral votes based on their number of US Representatives and US Senators. (states with large numbers of electoral votes receive greater attention, but each state gets at least two electoral votes). The state parties select their slate of electors. Aside from Maine and Nebraska, each state has a winner take all system. Electors vote as a block on the candidate that received the most votes – whether it is 50.1% or 95% of the popular vote. The candidate who has 270 electoral votes in the end wins the president

The way the primary system works for the presidential election differs in two different ways. The first primary system is paid for, by the state. The primary system that is closed, allows registered voters who are participating can vote for their preferred candidate. The second primary system is open; this allows unregistered voters who are not with a party to cast a vote on their preferred candidate.