Electoral College Vs Popular Vote Essay

Considering the most recent Presidential election, there is a lot of conflict about whether the Electoral College or popular vote is the best method for electing our president. Currently, there are riots going on, partly because of the conflict about how we choose our president and whether Americans think it is fair. There are arguments associated with both methods but it is sad and discouraging to see such behavior from Americans who refuse to support the outcome of our current electoral process. “The Electoral College pushes presidential campaigns and political parties to build broad national coalitions. It focuses our politics toward the moderate middle rather than the ideological extremes” (England). The Electoral College system seems to show a just way of electing the president as opposed to the popular Vote. The Electoral College assigns votes to each state based on the number of representatives and senators in each state. The candidate with the most Electoral College votes wins, as opposed to the popular vote in which the candidate with the most single votes wins. In 1804, the government passed an amendment to transition to the Electoral College system, which started the debate that continues to this day. There have been several presidents that have not won the popular vote but have won the …show more content…
“The current electoral system protects minority interests and opinions from being overpowered by a simple majority, or worse, what the founders called a "tyrannical majority”” (Whitson). Without an Electoral College, candidates can ignore states with small rural population and only focus on states with major large metropolitan populations like: California, New York, and Illinois. “Some argue that the candidates will have little or no incentive to visit such states; instead, they will concentrate solely on large urban areas with high concentrations of voters”