Or is the electoral college limted to just Dems and Repubs?
2007-01-19 06:29:59 · 13 answers · asked by By Your Command 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Any group can hold the office of the president. The only obstacle is to get enough votes supporting your party. Most of the nation follows partisan rules, so rather than listen to the candidate, they immediately associate themselves with democrat and republican. A candidate's party is only an indication of their values if they were to be elected (Green party...interested in the world values/environment mainly)
An electoral college is intended to represent the state from which they came from. So they are necessarily associated with a party, but they vote based on how the state tells their representative how to vote. If a state is independant and a majority of their districts vote independent, then the electoral college candidate must follow what their state says. But there is way too much people associating themselves with dem or rep that their electoral college is often associated with those parties.
2007-01-19 06:38:29 · answer #1 · answered by disoneguy300 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-16 08:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, yes an Independent could be President, but with the way the system is run these days it is almost impossible for anyone outside of the standard 2-party system to get anywhere near that kind of vote tally.
2007-01-19 06:33:22 · answer #3 · answered by rockhoundguide 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If an independent won enough states; with enough electoral votes, then the 'college' is honor bound to vote for the winner of that state.
2007-01-19 06:35:15 · answer #4 · answered by words_smith_4u 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i must say thats a no because the is not a majority of independents to vote so basically the electoral college is all about the Democrats and the Republicans
2007-01-19 06:35:40 · answer #5 · answered by Lamoya 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course, so can a Green party.
It just takes enough votes.
GOP and Democrats are recently new parties. Go look up what Abe Lincoln ran as, or Jefferson, Madison, etc...
2007-01-19 06:33:07 · answer #6 · answered by Sgt. Pepper 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
sure why not but the dems and repubs won`t allow it,i`m pretty sure one of the first presidents was an independent
2007-01-19 06:33:07 · answer #7 · answered by lily 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
According to the constitution anyone can be president, but now you can only be president if you are rich and can lie better than the other guy.
2007-01-19 06:32:37 · answer #8 · answered by Jon C 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sure, you don't need a party affiliation to become President.
It'll just be very difficult.
Tax the poor !!!
2007-01-19 06:34:00 · answer #9 · answered by Scorpius 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know umm....I would like to think so but Dems and Rep both suck.
2007-01-19 06:32:30 · answer #10 · answered by weso17 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋