University of Virginia Center for Politics The Electoral College and Presidential Campaigns: Working the System Purpose: This lesson may be used on its own or as a continuation of the YLI lesson The Controversial History of the Electoral College. Students are required to apply their knowledge of elections and the Electoral College system to use recent information on voter trends to examine the outcomes of the 2000 elections and predict the 2004 election using Sabato’s Crystal Ball website
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PFC Rockwell‚ Kenneth Norman 13Oct08 Term Paper: Government 2301 (The Electoral College) The Electoral College is an established system the United States government utilizes in order to elect the new president and vice-president for the country. This system is a model of indirectly voting for the executive branch of government. The Electoral College system was established in Article II of the Constitution and amended by the 12th Amendment in 1804 (About.com). The electors are chosen by the state
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However‚ the current system of the presidential election process allocates a certain number of electoral votes that is equal to the sum of U. S. Representatives and Senators for that state. Although not a state‚ the District of Columbia has three electoral votes. If a president wins the popular vote in that state‚ he or she “wins” the electoral votes of that state in a winner takes all type of manner. The electoral votes create winners and losers‚ takes the focus away from the message to the people from
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office position. America has two major political parties: Democrat and Republican. There are more political parties than that‚ but with the way the electoral process works most third parties are doomed to fail since they will not get the popular vote. Though for President and Vice President the popular vote does not matter since the Electoral College chooses the President and Vice President. Many eligible voters have decided to “protest vote” meaning not voting
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adopted to fix a flaw in the Constitution that had allowed Thomas Jefferson to tie in the Electoral College with his vice presidential candidate Aaron Burr. The election was then sent to the House of Representatives‚ which required 36 ballots to finally elect Jefferson president. The 12th Amendment specifies that electors should cast distinct votes for the president and vice president‚ rather than electoral votes for two men. The twelfth amendment is about presidential and vice presidential votes
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matters. Then there are those American who believe that voting is a complete waste of time. They think this way because once a candidate reaches prescribe number of electoral votes they pretty much have won the election no matter if there are states still left to vote. There are two types of votes. (USA.gov)One of those is the Electoral vote which is when
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president and president by the electoral college: should there be no superiority vote for one person‚ the House of Representatives chooses the president and the Senate the vice president‚ the candidate who received the superiority of electoral votes became president‚ and the runner-up was named vice president. After the 1800 Presidential Election‚ the 12th Amendment was adopted to fix a flaw in the Constitution that had allowed Thomas Jefferson to tie in the Electoral College with his vice-presidential candidate
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How candidates get Elected In order to become president‚ you have to be a candidate. Candidates are people trying to go for president. They go to all 50 states so they can be voted for. They have to do a lot of things like‚ they have to be fast or the people will get board‚ they have to very brave because they are standing in front of a million people. If someone want to be president they have to have a lot of money‚ has to be a specific age‚ and you have to be born in the state. In order
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Political Parties and Unfair Elections The Civil War and the Vietnam era of the 1960s forever changed the political party systems of our country. Those two time periods and the issues involved led to America embracing a two-party system‚ which is intact to this day. Due to the two-party system‚ it is extremely difficult for a candidate to be elected if he is not a member of either the Democratic or Republican party. This is not a situation that our founders would have encouraged‚ as they "disliked
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While it is crucial to acknowledge all that is right with American government‚ we must not turn a blind eye to what is wrong with it. Although government on the whole is good‚ there are many things wrong with government; things that need to be fixed. And fixing those problems is necessary if we are to revive Americans’ support for government. The better we can make government‚ the more we can expect citizens to oppose efforts to undermine this vital institution. The first‚ and one of the most serious
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