Electoral College

States of America, the Electoral College has been the decider of who becomes the next president. Each state, as well as the District of Columbia, is assigned a certain number of electors based on population and two senators, adding up to 538 for the nation. When one votes at a polling station, they are not directly voting for the president. Instead, they are voting for a particular elector that will then vote for the president. Whichever candidate wins the majority of the electoral votes wins…

Smaller states have an advantage in the Electoral College. Small states that have a small population have at least three electoral votes, whole other states that have a moderate size population have an equal or an only slightly greater number of electoral votes compared to those of small states. The Electoral College has 538 electors or voters that they are able to cast to the presidential candidates. The United States distributes…

When it came to drafting the Constitution, the Framers had different options and ideas of the ways to select a president and the Electoral College seemed to fit their society well. After all, politics in 1787 was different than what it has come to be in this time. During that time, there were only 13 colonies, which are states, all of which were located on the Atlantic border. This made “national campaigns... impractical...”, because transportation and communication wasn’t well built between…

battle ground states or swing states. The states that are pro republican or pro democratic can affect the candidates positively or negatively, in this way the Electoral College can affect presidential campaigning, reason being one candidate has the support of a state giving a disadvantage to the other candidate and vice versa. The Electoral College has been around for over 200 years and has proven to be effective, but there is also other methods of selecting a president, the other method being…

aim to win the 270 electoral votes they need to win the presidency. There are many ways political parties choose who is going to represent them on the general election, which is a…

constitution. This is shown throughout things, such as, the electoral college, and to be honest one of the biggest issues with the constitution was considered a citizen, and who was included in the actual document of the constitution. The electoral college shows the flaws and biases within the constitution, because the popular vote does not elect our government, but those who are in power to ado so. Society has taught us that the electoral college is there to not be bias, but why not just let…

an electoral college is chosen by the people which in turn elects a president. This system was chosen because of the United States’ unique make up of individual states. The electoral college is a group of electors, elected by the people, that vote for the president. Each state is given a number of electors equal to the number of house representatives they have, plus two representing their senators. In all but two states, the winner of the popular vote in the state wins all of the electoral votes…

along the “Trail of Tears”, a march westward that they were forced to go on. The Indians were told that these new reservations would be their new homes forever, but these reservations would eventually get taken from them also. The Electoral College: The Electoral College…

‘legendary’ election, it may have also been the first unjust and corrupt election. This election was a very tight one, John Quincy Adams received 84 electoral votes, whilst Jackson received 99. The reason why many Jacksonians saw this election as rotten was because, although Jackson received 43% of popular votes vs 30% for Adams, and receiving more electoral votes than all other candidates, he still did not manage to enter the White House as the sixth president. John Q. Adams made it into…

that the U.S. Constitution is a democratic document with two main points. While I concede to the point that the Constitution includes democratic elements such as the Bill of Rights, federalism, and the setup of the House of Representative, the electoral college and the Senate are exemplifies how the Constitution deviates away from the definition of democracy, a form of government that follows the rules of the…