Electoral College In America

On the first Tuesday of November in the years divisible by four the people of the United States gather and head to the polls to cast their votes for the general election in order to select public officials, including the president and their running mate. However, each vote does not have a direct say in who will win the election. In the span of democratic elections in America there have been five instances where the popular vote and the electoral college did not agree and, thus a president was selected based off of the college votes. The process of electing a president according to popular vote would follow the same pattern that voting for one with the college. In today’s process the general public casts their votes and then the college meets in December after the totals are in to cast their votes (“Presidential Election Process”). These votes, for the most part, represent the people’s wishes. If it were to be implemented that the …show more content…
The reason behind this is that the electoral college has been engrained in our election process since John Adams went against Thomas Jefferson. To change such an idea would not only be expensive, but would also have an impact on each traditionalist in the States. The college was created with the purpose of gaining more votes from those people that are informed and receiving less of an impact from the “uninformed” of the country. However, “this problem was largely solved by 1800,” and therefore is highly unnecessary and does not represent the idea of “one man, one vote” that America is so proud of (“Election 2016”).
Electoral college or popular vote? Popular vote holds more benefits than the electoral as it is and as it has been. Over the course of its existence the college has been amended “more than 700 times