Persuasive Speech (Monroe’s Motivational Sequence) Reforming the Electoral College Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that the Electoral College is outdated and needs to be reformed. Central Idea: I will discuss the most important reasons that the Electoral College needs to be reformed‚ the promising ways to reform it‚ and the benefits of reformation. Introduction I. Imagine that you have been shot and the bullet was wedged against your spinal cord. The doctors have told
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ELECTORAL COLLEGE-TO BE OR NOT TO BE? Cindy Franklin Government 2301 Prof. Rasmussen April 19‚ 2012 The Electoral College is a process that began as part of the original design‚ of the U.S. Constitution and was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between the election of the president by Congress and election by popular vote. As we all know‚ Americans were given a serious reminder in 2000 that the president is not elected by nationwide popular vote‚ but by a majority of the
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The electoral college is a very intricate and lengthy system the United States has in place to designate the resulting president. This is a system our founding fathers came up with when developing the country and a system that has been in place for centuries. And although this is a system people know and are accustom to‚ there is much surrounding controversy. Many people feel this is an ineffective method of selecting the president‚ while others feel that it works just fine. The Electoral College
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Government- 4B December 28‚ 2013 Poll on Electoral College The Electoral College is a process that consists of 538 electors that which elect candidates for the office of President and Vice President of the United States. These electors are chosen by popular vote on a state-by-state basis. When voters cast their ballots for a presidential candidate‚ those votes actually count towards a group of electors who pledge to vote for a specific candidate when the Electoral College meets. The presidential and vice-presidential
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election system for a president and a vice president in the United States of America depends on only 538 persons who are members of the Electoral College system. Technically‚ the Electoral College members ‚ called Electors‚ have the right to choose the president and the vice president with their decisions. In spite of making their own decisions‚ the Electoral College members who are voted by people in their states use the results of popular votes in their states to make conclusions in choosing for the
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ELECTORAL COLLEGE : The reason why we use the electoral college in the U.S. is to decide who is going to be the next president. The presidency is not always won by popular vote. The founding fathers opted for an electoral college ‚ because they wanted the president to be chosen by those who were well informed ‚and qualified enough to have the ability to chose a president. The main argument against the electoral college is that the presidency should be won by popular vote alone. It shouldn’t be that
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citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors‚ the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President‚ and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state’s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your
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Why the Electoral College Should Be Abolished and Replaced With the Direct Election Voting System 11 – 24 – 2004 Ever since its creation at the Constitutional Convention in 1787‚ the Electoral College has been the most widely debated aspect in the Constitution. There have been over 700 proposed constitutional amendments aimed at fixing or abolishing this process. And Congress has on several occasions held highly publicized hearings on Electoral College reform but overall has remained
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I like the Electoral College. I don’t want a most popular vote win election because I want the smaller states to still have a say‚ but‚ if America switches to most popular election‚ the way things are‚ might just get worse. There are some good reasons for a most popular election‚ and there are not good reasons for one too. I like the Electoral College a lot‚ and I would like the voting system to keep it that way. However‚ our founding fathers created the Electoral College‚ to create a better way
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Op-Ed: Why We Should Keep the Electoral College The electoral college is the current system in which the united state chooses the president and vice president. The electoral college system was created in 1787 by the framers‚ and hasn’t changed over the years. The current problem with the electoral college system is that the loser of the popular vote can still win the presidency by winning the electoral college votes. This has happened 3 times in the last 56 elections. The most recently being the
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