United States Electoral College

Electoral Collage The Electoral College is spelled up in article two of the constitution in terms of the process of how that works. Article Two of the United States Constitution establishes the executive branch of the federal government, which support and enforces federal laws. It includes the President, the Vice President, the Cabinet, executive departments, and other boards. The electoral college is an example of indirect democracy which means that we do notchoose our president directly. But why? It is a great example of federalism. Federalism is a political concept describing the practice whereby a group of members are bound together by agreement or covenant with a governing representative head. It refers to a system of government in which…

The Electoral College utilizes a plurality system to count votes and decide which candidate gets the votes for each state. This presents a problem that even though a candidate may win in the popular vote that may not win the Electoral College as was the case during the 2000 election. When this system prevents the popular vote from being the winner of the election this contrasts in terms of overall majority. The argument that the electoral college hinders true representation is based on the…

The Electoral College originated from the passage of the Constitution. Article 2 of the Constitution lays out the executive branch of the US government, and this is where the language creating the Electoral College is found. It says that “Each state shall appoint a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress” (U.S. Const. Art. II). This process designated 535 electors for the nation. The number of electors was…

In 2012 Donald J. Trump tweeted that “The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.” It’s ironic that because of the electoral college he was elected president. He lost the popular vote by more than two million votes, and yet won the presidency. This is the second time in 16 year that this has occurred. In the wake of the most recent election, the electoral college has become a controversial topic in the United States. In a presidential election, voters are not actually voting for the…

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 U.S. Government textbooks or have heard it mentioned in a political…

The Electoral College When the founding fathers wrote the constitution, there was conflict on who would determine the president of the United States. While, some believed the President should be elected by Congress, others believed that it should be popular vote by citizens. Hence, the Electoral College was established as a compromise. Conversely, the concept of the Electoral College wasn’t introduced in the Constitution until the 12th Amendment. According to BOOK TITLE the Electoral College is,…

to elect the President of the United States, most everyone feels good knowing they exercised their constitutional right to vote, and took part in the election of the next president of the United States. In all actuality the casted vote does not vote for a presidential candidate, but rather for electors to make their own presidential vote on the states behalf. (History.com) An elector decides who gets to be the next president of the United States, not the person actually visiting the polls.…

Every four years, citizens of the United States of America choose their next president based off a unique system known as the electoral college. The way that this system works is interesting and is confused easily in the general public. In early November, when citizens go to the polls, they are not voting for the president directly, rather they are voting for their individual states to cast its electoral votes towards a certain presidential candidate. In the forty-eight of the fifty states where…

in this situation was the twenty-five electoral votes Florida attained. Since Bush obtained a small majority of Florida voters over Gore, he took the twenty-five electoral votes. In turn, Democrat Al Gore went from being the popular vote victor to the election loser. Overall, although Gore won more popular votes, Bush obtained more electoral votes. Regarding the Electoral College, Plutzer mentions how “Under the current system, when a candidate wins a landslide in California or Texas, it does…

campaign season. Out of 318.9 million people living in the US (according to the United States Census Bureau), even having a very tiny fraction of other individuals eligible to take over the US presidential position according to the law of probability, we came down to two candidates notorious for their exceptionally terrible reputation. We have Hillary Clinton representing the Democratic Party infamous for her shady email controversy, which allegedly lead to numerous of…