Presidential election

Do We Need the Electoral College Megan Browe Wayne State University Do We Need the Electoral College The Electoral College is a process that the founding fathers created as an agreement between election of the president by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens (Barbour & Wright, 2006). This system is fixed in the Constitution and it consists of 538 electors. To elect the president, a majority of 270 votes are needed. Every state’s…

the United States have been doing it this way since 1789 (Electoral College - United States). A total of 270 electoral votes are needed to win and the amount of votes are decided by the population in each state (How Many Electoral Votes Does a Presidential Candidate Need to Win?). In order to gain more Electoral Votes, a candidate must establish him or herself as a good politician and travel to states to gain popularity (Electoral College - United States). A crazy rule about the Electoral…

The Internet's effect on political parties has always been present but it recently became very prevalent, especially in this year’s presidential election. It was present in many ways from social media, to Internet polls and even emails. The two frontrunners of the presidential election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, were very involved in the media, as they consistently posted to various social media sites. The two then candidates really used the internet to their advantage and used it as a…

I believe that during Andrew Jackson’s election and time in office he was democratic. The definition of a democrat is a person who believes in the political or social equality of all people. I would identify Jackson as a democrat because of the electors in the election in 1832, What his supporters said at his inauguration, and because of a veto he made. Jackson first showed signs of being democratic in the election of 1824 when only 6 of the 12 states had the people elect the electors and the…

The 2016 election has been quite a controversial and emotional election, leading to various debates and major shifts in people’s opinions. As a result, the professors at the University of Texas at Austin decided to provide critical insight to freshman students on how to become an active citizen in participating in this year’s presidential election. Mark Updegrove, Bethany Albertson, and Michael Stoff took the stage at Bass Concert Hall to provide freshman knowledge on voting, anxiety in politics…

Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the Electoral College has a body of people who elect the president and vice president of the United States. The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and by the citizens. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 votes is required to become President. Each state has a different number of electoral votes that equals the number of members in its Congress.…

Voter turnout in recent presidential elections has been unbelievably low in comparison to other elections throughout America’s history. The country’s voter participation also ranks far below many major political elections that take place in different governments around the world. Many believe that the ultimate reason for which America’s voter turnout remains at such a considerably lower percentage than in other countries is because voting is not mandatory like it sometimes is elsewhere. However,…

Voting in a presidential election is one of the key duties of a citizen in the United States, but the method for choosing the president is outdated and unnecessary. The current method, the electoral college system, contains various flaws that can be solved by changing the voting system. In the electoral college system, there are 538 electors in total. This number comes from the 438 members of the House of Representatives, and the 100 members of the Senate. Each state gets one elector for each…

(270) wins the election. The electoral college is made up of electors chosen by each state that is equal to the number of representatives in congress. The electoral college should not be changed at all because it protects from uneducated decisions, it protects equal votes for states, and insures a fair vote. The electoral college is here to make decisions the general public can not. The famous federalist Alexander Hamilton said, “It is equally desirable, that the immediate election should be…

after the Civil War started moving amid the New Deal and now are overwhelmingly Democratic. (Desilver, 2014). In the 2012 Presidential Election the only major cities to vote with the Republicans were Phoenix, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, and Salt Lake City. Mitt Romney had dominated within the Utah capital, however, Phoenix was close to voting for Obama in the 2012 Presidential Election. The divide is so distinct to the point that some of America’s “bluest” cities are situated right in states that…