Presidential election

in November, millions of American citizens go to the polls and vote indirectly for their President. However, the actual election takes place in December, and only 538 people are involved. This small group of people is called the Electoral College. This paper will explain how the Electoral College works and analyze how it factors into the campaign strategies in Presidential election. The US Constitution was forged 200 hundred years ago in which time America “founding Father” divided the process…

Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for an early election with the strong belief that his party, the Conservatives, would win. However, he did not take into account the fact that there were numerous structural and institutional constraints, which consequently resulted in a loss for his party in the recent 2015 federal elections . Canada is a parliamentary system, which is a democratic government that is dictated by the legislature (the parliament) alongside the executive power, making the…

original idea was that Congress would chose the president. However, Americans were wary of national/federal government because of the unfair way they were treated by the English government. Because of this fear, the people wanted to have a say in the election. Congress was therefore not given the power to elect the president because of that fear of an overly strong government, and also due to the idea that that the president should not be voted in by Congress because then the president might…

At the point when Americans vote in favor of a President and Vice President, they are really voting in favor of presidential electors, referred to all in all as the Electoral College. It is these voters, picked by the general population, who choose the President. The Constitution allocates every state a number of electors equivalent to the combined total of the state's Senate and House of Representatives commission at present, the quantity of electors per state ranges from three to 54, for a sum…

When Joseph Schlesinger wrote Ambition and Politics in 1996, everything changed (Fox and Lawless 644). He created a “rational choice paradigm” to help understand potential candidates’ decisions to run for political office (Fox and Lawless 644). The rational choice paradigm recognizes that political ambition is a “strategic response to a political opportunity structure” and that citizens have a higher likelihood to decide to run for office when they have favorable political and structural…

Since the beginning of our country, the presidential races have been primarily dominated by the traditional politician. As time goes on, change is expected, but even the most forward thinking person could not have prepared for what is taking place at this moment. Never before has there been a presidential race that shows the traditional politician becoming a political outcast. The way the presidential race is turning out makes a traditional politician almost seem counter-culture. Business…

arise over the election protocol, and the power each individual holds in each. In the United States, microlevel elections are held within certain districts, many of which have been drawn asymmetrically in favor of the party in power. Whereas in the macro level election, that being the presidential election, 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…

The article, “White-on-White Voting” by Thomas Edsall, discusses the idea of large majority white cities and towns being the reason that Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Trump won in the areas that are some of the whitest in the nation, many of whom did not vote as strongly for McCain or Romney in the previous two elections as they did for Trump. These, almost 100 percent white, suburbs were all so extremely pro-Trump because they felt they had a reason to worry about their…

Will in almost every recent election there has probability been a relatively credible scenario for an outcome. It might seem that a tie had never happen during a presidential election, but the only tie that happen in the history was in 1800. (Eric Black, 2012) We might think that it was probably because they used formal tickets, and that there were some states…

In the 2000 presidential election, most people were prepared to accept that Al Gore would be the next president even though he would likely lose the popular vote. However, the opposite happened. George Bush won the presidency through a small margin of electoral votes, but had lost the popular vote of the people. This election is an example of how the Electoral College diminishes the importance of the votes of the people. Most people know of the electoral college, they have read about it in their…