When someone turns 18 years old the first thing you hear from your parents or an adult is “you can finally vote”, but do people really know what that means? Teenagers are just excited about being 18. They don’t really think about being able to vote because no one really prepares them for it, at least that’s what I felt when I turned 18. When it came to voting I really did need to know what the Electoral College really does. What I found was that everyone in the United States doesn’t really vote for the president they want directly. It’s a process and you as a voter is the very first step. The next step is what you are really voting for, which in this case you are voting for an elector, or in other words, your representor.
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Because of the Electoral College the votes that really matter are the votes counted by the state, the electoral votes. The truth about these votes though are that candidates decide to pay more attention to certain states than others. For example candidates don’t go to big states such as Texas, California, and New York, because they are considered safe states. Which means they don’t have to worry about them because they already know who they are voting for, or as the Norton video likes to call it “comfort food”. They focus more on the swing states that are known to be a mix of both parties. Now when it comes to the decision on how many electoral and popular votes there were that’s where the criticism really begins. The candidates who have the majority of the popular votes and few electoral votes always lose the race to presidency. Whereas the candidate with the majority of electoral votes and few popular votes always ends up …show more content…
Something that was said in the Norton video that really stuck with me was that, “we think of this country as being one person one vote but it’s really not”. The truth is we aren’t being heard when it comes to our opinion. We are letting someone else that is chosen for us, speak for us as well. Most people decide not to vote because they believe that their vote doesn’t matter or that it won’t really count. There is also the possibility that the elector that we vote for ends up voting the other way. We are putting our future into other people’s hands. We have had the Electoral College system since 1787. If many people disagree with the Electoral College then maybe we should focus more on the popular vote. That’s the president the majority will vote on. The popular vote is the one that shows how people really feel in each state. Electoral votes are people from the Senate and House of Representatives and how they really feel of who should be the next president. Imagine how many more votes the presidential election would receive if they knew that the election was focusing on popular votes. More people would listen and educate themselves on what the country really needs. It would finally be a direct election and we wouldn’t have to deal with someone speaking for us, or in other words an indirect election. The founding fathers had the right idea at the time,
Because of the Electoral College the votes that really matter are the votes counted by the state, the electoral votes. The truth about these votes though are that candidates decide to pay more attention to certain states than others. For example candidates don’t go to big states such as Texas, California, and New York, because they are considered safe states. Which means they don’t have to worry about them because they already know who they are voting for, or as the Norton video likes to call it “comfort food”. They focus more on the swing states that are known to be a mix of both parties. Now when it comes to the decision on how many electoral and popular votes there were that’s where the criticism really begins. The candidates who have the majority of the popular votes and few electoral votes always lose the race to presidency. Whereas the candidate with the majority of electoral votes and few popular votes always ends up …show more content…
Something that was said in the Norton video that really stuck with me was that, “we think of this country as being one person one vote but it’s really not”. The truth is we aren’t being heard when it comes to our opinion. We are letting someone else that is chosen for us, speak for us as well. Most people decide not to vote because they believe that their vote doesn’t matter or that it won’t really count. There is also the possibility that the elector that we vote for ends up voting the other way. We are putting our future into other people’s hands. We have had the Electoral College system since 1787. If many people disagree with the Electoral College then maybe we should focus more on the popular vote. That’s the president the majority will vote on. The popular vote is the one that shows how people really feel in each state. Electoral votes are people from the Senate and House of Representatives and how they really feel of who should be the next president. Imagine how many more votes the presidential election would receive if they knew that the election was focusing on popular votes. More people would listen and educate themselves on what the country really needs. It would finally be a direct election and we wouldn’t have to deal with someone speaking for us, or in other words an indirect election. The founding fathers had the right idea at the time,