The Importance Of The Electoral College

Though our founding fathers created the Electoral College over 200 years ago, it has been changed with time to accommodate modern needs and is still an important and necessary part of our electoral system. The Electoral College ensures political stability in our nation by encouraging the two-party system and also protects the interests of minorities. Furthermore, the Electoral College helps maintain a united country by requiring widespread popular support of a candidate in order for him or her to become president.

When the Constitutional Convention gathered in 1784 they had the difficult task of determining how our government should be assembled and what systems we should use to elect them. They quickly decided congress should have the powers to pass laws and the people should elect these people to ensure they are following the will of the people. But who should elect the president?

The Electoral College was established by our nation’s founding fathers. It was recognized in the Constitution as an agreement between the vote in Congress for the election of President and the popular vote for the election of President. This election system created representative democracy instead of having direct democracy. The Electoral College began in a time when the federal government did not have the power they have today. The idea

With the 2016 election upcoming, many students are wondering how voting really works. The U.S. government uses a system called the electoral college, meaning a system where representatives, or electors, from the states come together to vote. The electors then vote based on what candidate the popular vote in their state chose. Each state gets a certain number of electors based on their population and number of senators. However, many people disagree on whether or not the electoral college is necessary. So, there are different strengths and weaknesses of the electoral college system.

The presidential candidate who receives the majority of electoral votes, which is 270 out of 538, wins the presidency. Many American's are surprised to learn that when they step into a ballot box and vote for a specific candidate, they are essentially voting for an elector appointed by states, not the actual presidential candidate. These electors cast a vote for the presidential candidate that the voters have supported. The purpose of the Electoral College is to provide a sense of stability for electing a chief executive, however, this system has been the subject of criticism for many years, as it has occasionally maligned. Many critics have attempted to reform the system, especially when apparent discrepancies occurred after the election results.

In 2000, as the election approached, some observers thought that Bush, interestingly also the son of a former president, could win the popular vote, but that his opponent, Gore, could win the Electoral College vote because Gore was leading in certain big states, such as California, New York and Pennsylvania. In the end, Gore secured the popular vote, but Bush won by securing the majority of votes in the Electoral College.

Today the Electoral College is used to find out who becomes president. The Electoral College system is used in most states and this means that everyone who is eligible to vote can go vote in the state that they live in and then the majority vote for that certain state gets all the electoral college votes which is what counts more. Different states have a different number of electoral votes depending on the state’s population. The system that is being used is unfair to the independent candidate and bigger states, therefore the Electoral College should be abolished.

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 Electoral College is a process established in the constitution to select the president. The electors (selected by each candidate’s political party) votes directly for the president and vice president. I am in favor of the Electoral College because it plays an important role in electing the president. Three reasons for supporting the Electoral College are: it provides a certainty of the election’s outcome, the president is elected by voters from different regions, and informed voters in swing states decide the election.

Choosing the President of the United States is a huge event not only in America but all over the world as well. The whole world wants to see who will be the next Chief in Command of the most powerful nation in the universe. The Electoral College is the process use to determine who will be the next President and Vice- President of the United States of America. This process is not embraced by every citizen others prefer the popular vote process, creating a division between citizens.

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 Electoral College has been prominent since the beginning of our country and is still continuing to this day deciding who will become president. However, in the presidential election of 2000 it would go against the results of the popular vote. It was this year in which the battle in the popular vote would be one of the closest in U.S history. It was this year when the president elect would lose the popular vote, and upset the majority of America. It was this year the Electoral College would be the deciding factor in selecting our next president between the two candidates, George Bush and Al Gore. Which begs the question why is the Electoral College so important. The Electoral College was created with the purpose of balancing the power of

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Charles Darwin broached the theory of natural selection in his book the Origin of Species, which has been considered the basis of evolutionary biology to this day. Natural selection is when populations of a species evolve over the course of many generations. Darwin believed that species were not created separately, but instead, species were derived from one another. In other words, the evolution of species creates many variations among creatures, and this is because all of those species came from a common ancestor, and characteristics changed to increase the species chance of survival.

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