There are many ways political parties choose who is going to represent them on the general election, which is a …show more content…
Which means states with a large population, who have more electoral votes than those with a smaller population. The Electoral College system could have a negative effect on presidential campaigning because instead of focusing on winning the popular vote they need to mainly focus on winning the electoral votes from all the states, which are very crucial on deciding who the next president is going to be. Which means they have to be very careful on the strategies there going to apply on each state to win the electors which would give candidates a better chance to win the presidential …show more content…
As stated by the article Electoral vote vs Popular vote, “the system is undemocratic because the number of electoral votes is not directly proportional to the population of the state. This gives smaller states a disproportionate influence in presidential elections, which means smaller states get more representation than bigger states and this could play an important role on how a president gets elected and leaves other populated states with less electoral