The Importance of Education, A Personal Perspective It has been twenty-three years since the English professor knocked on my door to personally invite me back to class. I was attending a small college, where students and staff were friendly, supportive, and willing to help. I had always done well academically, but things had changed and now I was a 19-year-old single mother struggling to attend my classes. Perplexed by my numerous absences, the professor had come over to encourage me and to convey
Since the beginning of U.S. presidential elections, the Electoral College has held the responsibility of choosing the nation’s next president. With 538 electors in the Electoral College, presidential candidates must win a majority of 270 votes from states across the U.S. to have victory in the general election. Forty-eight out of fifty states hold winner-take-all elections, which means that the candidate that wins the majority in each individual state wins the entirety of that state’s electoral votes
Should the Electoral College be Abolished? The Electoral College is a system that creates a compromise between the election of the president by a vote in congress and a popular vote from the citizens of the U.S. This results in a total of 538 electors from congress and to win the presidential election you must have over 270 Electoral votes. There is people who do not like the electoral college because the system is old fashioned and not democratic according to the two articles In Defense of the
Abstract The structure of the Electoral College based U.S. Presidential elections system suggests a certain approach to choosing campaign strategies by U.S. Presidential candidates, and problems associated with finding competitive strategies of the candidates are considered. Most of the problems are formulated as discrete mathematical programming ones or as those with mixed variables, whereas some of the problems are formulated as game ones. Approaches to solving all the considered problems with
I am planning to persuade my audience to support to change the presidential election system in the U.S during my persuasive speech. In my opinion, the presidential election is the most important election in our country since it elects the leader for at least 4 years. I think it is extremely important to make sure the election system is fair and can represent the majority of our country. However, the election system that we are using right now can not always represent the majority. It does not assure
to win presidential elections post 1968? Every four years, on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November, millions of U.S. citizens go to local voting booths to elect, among other officials, the next president and vice president of their country. Their votes will be recorded and counted, and winners will be declared. But the results of the popular vote are not guaranteed to stand because the Electoral College has not cast its vote. thinking of the 2000 U.S. presidential election -- Gore
of Americans are voting for one president to take the power in the presidential office, than it does not make sense that the other candidate would win the election. However, the Bush versus Gore election was not the only time that a candidate with the minority of the votes to win. A similar election occurred in 1876 between Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes. The Gale Encyclopedia of American Law states that “when the election returns came in on November 7, 1876, Tilden had clearly received the
Electoral College Pros and Cons The 2016 presidential election was an example of the discrepancy between the Electoral College votes and the national popular votes. If the last presidential election had been decided by a national popular vote, then Hillary Clinton would have won the presidency because she had the majority of votes. However, due to the design of the Electoral College, Donald Trump won the election for president in 2016; although, he lost the national popular vote. Just as some people
The 2015 Canadian federal election, which took place on October 19, 2015, saw the Liberal Party's victory and the Conservative Party's defeat. Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party called the election early, after 10 years in Parliament and a strong run in the 2011 federal election, believing it would grant them the upper hand. This decision to dissolve parliament in August instead of September granted them longer campaign time, but did not make as great of an impact as they had wanted it to
During the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson succeeded in defeating the incumbent, John Adams, and assumed the presidency. In terms of elections though, the election of 1800 itself was a fascinating election in that it a heavily-contested election and was effectively the first time political parties ran smear campaigns against each other during an election. The Republican Party attacked the Federalists for being anti-liberty and monarchist and tried to persuade the public that the Federalists were