I will be discussing the detriments and downfalls of the Electoral College. Now‚ before we delve into the gritty details of what the Electoral College actually is and how it functions‚ I must ask‚ do you actually know how the President of the United States is elected? The majority of Americans would simply say that they cast their vote and call it a day. They are entirely complacent with the system because they feel grounded in the belief that they are the ones truly in power. They believe in the
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Electoral college is a process that is set up by our founding fathers in the constitution; it is a “compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens” (U.S Electoral College). Electoral college is an example of indirect democracy; therefore‚ we do not choose our president directly. Thus‚ electoral college is not democratic. Electoral college is a group of people appointed by each state‚ who formally elect the
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I’m going to be talking about if we should eliminate the electoral college. On December 13‚ 2000‚ vice president Al Gore conceded the presidential election to Governor Bush. A day earlier‚ a lengthy and expensive manual vote recount process in Florida was stopped by the United States supreme court despite Bush leading by only 537 votes with Bush winning the states by 25 electoral votes put him over the needed threshold of 275. This election result was highly unusual not just because of Supreme Court
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Should the Electoral College Be Abolished? Did you ever wonder if your vote goes to the candidate you vote for. The Electoral College hurts the third parties and they don’t get the same advantages as other parties have. The Electoral College isn’t fair we don’t get to vote for the president. The Electoral College should be abolished because its undemocratic‚ small states are overrepresented and it hurts third party candidates. Is the Electoral College needed? Document B shows‚ in 1980 Reagan won
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"The majority does not rule and every vote is not equal - those are reasons enough for scrapping the system. But there are other consequences as well. This election has been making clear how the Electoral College distorts presidential campaigns. A few swing states take on oversized importance‚ leading the candidates to focus their attention‚ money and promises on a small slice of the electorate." The 2000 election caused a lot of controversies. It took five weeks to determine the Presidency and
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I will state my position towards the electoral college along with the pros and cons leading to my choice. I will explain why the people should want to keep it along with why some don’t want to trust it. I will also explain what will happen if it goes away because we know what it does. The Electoral College always has it’s finger prints on the elections and more importantly on the very close elections. Both parties Republican and Democrat candidate feel at times as if they win the popular vote they
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Yes the Electoral college should be taken out of the constitution.The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states‚ for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win. This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president
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The Electoral college is a very controversial subject that has a big impact on American history. Every four years‚ people vote for the president… Or do they? You actually vote for electors that represent your state‚ and the bigger states get more electors. Sounds perfect right? Wrong. The way the electors are distributed is not perfect‚ and three times in American history‚ the person who won the popular vote did not win the electoral vote. That happened in 1888‚ 2000‚ and 2016. Because of this‚ electoral
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My Opinion on the Electoral College The Electoral College is the current system America uses to elect the president. How this systems works is when you vote‚ you aren’t really voting‚ you are telling an elector where you would like your vote to go to. Once everyone has voted‚ the elector votes for a candidate based on the votes of the people. There are anywhere from three to about 55 electors per state. I believe this system should be replaced with the popular vote method. One of reasons I believe
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president. The electoral college is a process not a place. It was established by our founding fathers. The college is a body of people representing the states in the United States‚ who formally cast votes for the election. The Electoral College is made up of 538 electors who cast votes to decide the President and Vice-President of the United States. When voters go to the polls‚ they will be choosing which candidate receives their state’s electors. Donald Trump has about 126 electoral votes‚ while
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