Pros And Cons Of The Electoral College

Ever since the constitution has been written, the president of the united states has been elected via the electoral college. Despite its long-time usage, the electoral college has many critics. Various people, wish for the president to be elected via a popular vote. While others, continue to be happy with usage of the electoral college. Others, simply are confused by the process of the electoral college all together. This leads to many political scientists to question if the electoral college is in fact effective, or if a popular vote would be better. However, both the popular vote and the electoral college have pros and cons. The pros for the electoral college is that is has been used for years. The basis of the electoral college is written down in the constitution. As long as the United States uses the electoral college as the way to vote in a president there will be no need for a constitutional amendment. It could be years before congress could effectively write and pass an amendment that could
Using the popular vote as the way to elect the president has one main pro. The pro of the popular vote form of voting is the president will have to win the popular vote to be elected into office. Another pro, is that everyone’s vote in a state will count. With the electoral college if you vote for the losing candidate in your state, your vote will not matter in a sense. However, with the popular vote that is not a problem, a person’s vote will matter. The popular vote form of voting is also much simpler and easier to explain to people compared to the electoral college. However, with the popular vote candidates will most likely flock to high populated areas, to gain more peoples’ votes. A candidate may be more likely to ignore less populated areas if they were elected by a popular vote system, which is con that comes along with electing the president via popular vote. Another con with the popular