Electoral College

Electoral College (25 pts) The electoral college is a group of people whose job it is to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. There are 538 electors who represent the 435 House Representatives, 100 Senators, and an extra three people to represent the District of Columbia. To win, a nominee for president must get a majority of electoral votes. Most states have a winner-take-all method for electoral votes. The winner of the popular vote in that state receives all of the…

the outcome is not decided based upon the votes of the majority, rather by the electoral votes won by each candidate. Despite the differences in the micro and macro level elections, citizens have begun to take greater notice in the laws that govern elections and the voting process, as the belief that the voice of the individual is overshadowed by the power of policy makers is permeating society.…

Presidential candidates take almost two years to announce they are running to the day they are sworn into office. They work with the two party systems and during that time they spend a lot of money during the campaign. Some of the parties since the 1872 are the Green Party, the Libertarians, The constitution Party to name a few. During the past years the Americans have either elected a Democratic or a Republican Party member to the highest office in the land. The Republicans and Democrats…

did not completely represent the overall views of the population. One of the students- Gustavo- even went as far as saying that “the Electoral College is a joke since there’s no given guarantee that the Electoral College will vote the same way as the general population”. Six brought up the 2016 election as an example of misrepresentation in the Electoral College. The overall consensus was that the popular vote from the election had been ignored since Hillary Clinton had won almost three million…

Over the years the America has vastly changed, once a nation they did everything in it’s power to insure that only wealthy white land owners could take place in the electoral process; now opens it’s election to any citizen eighteen years of age and older. Although elections tend to reflect the popular opinion the democratic primaries, it does not always reflect the popular opinion of the office holders of the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention. In 1868…

did not win the popular vote. The years were 1876, 1888, and 2000. One article says the following about the election of 1876: “1876 Democrat Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote over Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. But Republicans contested 20 electoral votes from three Southern states. Hayes Finally won those 20 votes and the election-probably by…

different than it is today. In 1787 a much smaller percentage of people were educated, there were way fewer people living in the country, and people were very concerned with the president being elected by “smart” people. Considering all of that, the electoral college was a great system for electing the president of the United States at that time. However, in modern times, a direct presidential election would be better. In 1787 The United States was a very young country that was trying to figure…

Throughout the course we have read about elections and the Electoral College. We have also read about the Federalists who had interest for the “few” and the Anti-Federalist who had interest for the “many.” Instead of the American people directly choosing their next president, the framers established the Electoral College system which essentially gave a small group of appointed people called “electors” the ability to make that choice. The Constitution did not include how these people would be…

third party candidate and win the majority vote, Al Gore, for example, aren’t guaranteed to win. In 2000, Al Gore won the majority vote for most states, but because of the electoral college, Bush won the election overall. A third-party candidate with even less support than Gore has almost no chance at winning with the electoral college. Every single person in the U.S. could vote for a Gary Johnson or…

celebrations and parties before some people have even had the chance to cast a vote. What would be the point of going out to vote? It essentially doesn’t matter because the “important” states have won and the minimum number of electoral votes needed is assumed The Electoral College process has been debated on its fairness, effectiveness, and need numerous times since its creation in 1787, and even if it were to be changed, the debate would continue. This system is unfair to the people of…