At The Constitutional Convention of 1787, there was a lot of debate over how the President would be elected. Some supported a system of popular votes while most others supported the system we have in place today, the Electoral College. The Electoral College is the best method of electing a President because it allows for the people to be involved in the government while still maintaining that the most educated people possible actually vote for the President. Many American citizens believe that when
Another major fault of the Electoral College is the fact that it allows for a tie during the official Presidential race while on the other hand a popular vote would almost never result in a tie. In order to win the Presidency a candidate must receive a minimum of 269 electoral votes during the official election. There are exactly 538 electoral votes available for each candidate to win, one for each member of the Senate and the House of Representatives combined. The math shows that 538 divided by
“The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy,” (Trump). During American history, there has been a total of the five presidential candidates have won the popular vote, however, lost the electoral college, therefore losing the campaign. When one votes in the presidential election, he or she votes for the electors of his or her state who will choose a candidate (typically from his or her party) and whoever gets the most votes becomes the next U.S. president (Federal Register). Thus, each state
without the chance of an oppressive ruler, such as King George the Third. They hoped to balance the power and make sure that the nation was never in the hands of a leader like him. To accomplish this goal of equal representation they created the Electoral College. This created a system where Americans when voting for the President, weren’t voting directly for the candidates and were voting for electors that would cast votes to represent their state. Although this system worked in the time that it was
States uses the process of the Electoral College. The Electoral College allows each state to have a certain amount of votes based on the state's congressional delegation. Each state receives two votes for U.S Senators plus the number of U.S Representative each state has. The only exception to this is the District of Columbia who receives three electoral votes. The state of Missouri currently receives ten electoral votes and in the 2012 election, Missouri's electoral votes went to Romney. There
What can the government do to get more people involved in politics; why not end the electoral colleges? In America during election mouth, many U.S citizens state that their votes do not matter; consequently, half the population that is able to vote do not show up to vote. According to Gregory Wallace, CNN Politics Video Producer explain that during 2016, “Voter turnout this year dipped to nearly its lowest point in two decades.” What Wallace mean by this is that “126 million votes already counted
Outdated political system: Get rid of the Electoral College Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell College are all renowned colleges, but have you heard of the Electoral College? It has been in existence for over two hundred years. This is a unique college where the only requirement to participate is that one must be at least eighteen years old. The Electoral College has no campus, meal tickets, football team, or even academics. However, it is the most important college because it helps the American people make
majority of the popular vote, but he did not win the electoral college votes. George W. Bush won the presidency that year and Americans began to question the abolishment of the Electoral College (Wilcox 1). The identical problem reappeared during the 2016 presidential election, when Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by over 2.8 million votes, but he earned 74 votes more votes than Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College, which resulted in Donald Trump becoming the 45th president
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 made up of 538 electors who cast votes to decide the President and Vice-President of the United States” (What is the Electoral College, 2012). In order for a candidate to win they must get the majority of the electoral votes which
Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution established the electoral college. The founding fathers made the electoral college as a compromise between election of president by congress vote and popular vote of citizens (What is the electoral college). With this system, many incidents where the president hasn’t received majority of the popular vote and still became president has occurred and due to this much controversy around the electoral college has occurred. The most recent incident was the election