United States Electoral College

pledged to support their nominee, called the Electoral College. Each state has a number of electors comparable to their population: its number of senators (always two) and representatives in the House. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors who vote to decide who will be President and Vice-President of the United States of America. These are two of the highest executive officer positions in our country. The candidate that receives most of the electoral votes will be elected into office,…

convinced that the electoral college had to go. In the Gore vs Bush election, Bush had come out the winner, although only in the electoral college. Surprisingly, in a rare turn of events, Gore exceeded Bush in popular votes, and it was only through a long scuffle over the state of Florida that Bush finally won the presidency. For a great portion of the population, approximately 62% according to an article on Gallup by Lydia Saad, it was time to amend the constitution and replace the electoral…

glimpse at the United States history, the electoral college was formed to protect the interest of the minority and to avoiding the selection of a favourite candidate just by the majority population. This form was highly accepted and favoured as the other methods of selecting president as selection by the congress, majority rule and the selection by the state legislatures were rejected due to the high investment of power and protecting the minority rights. This modern system of electoral college…

individually, their votes don’t actually count! Why? In the United States, our presidential race is decided by the Electoral College, a group of 538 representatives, or electors, from each state. A number of electoral votes is granted to each state, and individual states have the freedom to choose which candidate those votes will support. This system, while it may have been beneficial at the time of its initiation, is no longer effective. The Electoral College system is antiquated, inaccurate,…

become the president of the United States.” Abbott and Levine framed this possibility as the “coming constitutional crisis,” and made ominous predictions about the effect that such an outcome would have on the American public. Less than a decade later, George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the United States after losing the popular vote. This outcome shocked and outraged voters and prompted politicians like Hillary Clinton to call for the abolition of the electoral college claiming that,…

used the electoral vote rather than the popular vote when we have had to select a president and vice president. In this essay, we will be examining the structure and function of the Electoral College, comparing the Electoral College to the popular vote and assessing the value of the individual citizen’s vote under the Electoral College system. The Electoral College was created in 1787. The reason, the Electoral College was created, was to give the power of electing a president to the states and…

Macbeth and Trump. Both Macbeth and Donald Trump will do anything to fight for freedom. “Trump graduate from the New York Military Academy, which teaches people how to defend for the United States. The Military Academy is to also teach people how to defend…

How exactly does the Electoral College work and why did the Founding Fathers choose this system for us to select the new president and vice president of the United States? As we know that years prior to this, the Founding Fathers and other colonists in early America fled Great Britain in hopes of a fresh start. Obviously, when setting up the government for this new country, they would not create it the same as it was in Great Britain. The Founding Fathers created a flawed system but has and…

electing state representatives to US senators, the American population chooses who is to govern them. But that is not the case when it comes to the election of the President. That job is left to appointed electors who are influenced by their own thoughts, their political parties and the popular vote of the nation in their decision of who is to be the president of the United States. Over the years of presidential elections the candidate who wins the popular vote additionally wins the electoral…

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 of electing the President and Vice President into two-step system. In the first step, the American citizen would cast their votes, and in the second step, The Electoral College would convene after…