What are some of the good things and bad things about the electoral college?

Question

Yes, it should be abolished, but i ahev an english report due on moday highlighting the "postive" things about it.:(

Answer 1

Bad: a candidate could possibly win the presidency without winning the popular vote. (see the election of 2000 for an example)

Answer 2

The electoral college was conceived to represent the illiterate in this country, at a time when lack of education and information was a genuine issue and an accepted fact of life for most of the country. It was not a thing to be ashamed of and the people represented by the electorate vote rested easy, knowing that someone more educated and informed than themselves were looking out for their interests. The electoral college is unnecessary, and has been for quite some decades, however, it works to the best interest of politicians, who have fewer people to convince that the person running against them is nothing but trash. So many recent elections would have had different outcomes had the vote of the people outweighed the votes of the electorate.

Banish this old, outdated, unnecessary system. The men who created it certainly would have dissolved this system by now.

Answer 3

it quite is a sturdy ingredient, it become properly concept out and that is needed. If no longer for the electoral college, a candidate in simple terms needs to win long island, CA and a pair different states to win all of it. That leaves 80 p.c. of the country out of the technique. And all of us understand the super cities vote Liberal on the same time as midsection united statesa. is greater conservative. It supplies anybody a honest shot at picking a winner no remember what your political critiques.

Answer 4

Sorry, there is nothing positive about the EC. To those above who have stated that the EC benefits the smaller states...have you paid any attention to the elections recently. Both candidates ignore the smaller states and the larger states because the outcome is usually pretty much known before election day. In recent elections the campaigns have paid attention to about 15 moderate sized states where the outcomes were not already decided.

Answer 5

In my opinion, there is no good thing you can speak of which we can derive from the electoral college. It is an old concept and defeats the very essence of "the rule of the majority." With the existence of electoral college, I feel my vote does not make a difference.

Answer 6

It ignores the overall total popular vote yet it was designed to even things out across the nation where there can be massive population differences due to size of a state. While the evening out thing was meant to be fair this is how VP Gore lost to our current president.

Answer 7

The principal advantage of the Electoral College is to the smaller and more sparsely populated states, such as Rhode Island, Delaware, and Wyoming. Were it not for the Electoral College neither of the major parties would pay much attention to their interests and concerns and presidential candidates would ignore them completely.

Answer 8

There isn't anything good about the electoral college. No other democracy in the world has it because it isn't democratic. It should be one man/women one vote and the popular vote chooses the candidate.

Answer 9

This system was put in to place before telegraph, telephone, cars, and all the other modern form of communication and travel. It is an outdated system.

Answer 10

it is fair in that states with smaller populations don't get overpowered by higher populated states.
It's not fair in that more than 50% of the population can vote for a president and the one with less than 50% of the popular vote can still win.