the electoral college??

Question

who else thinks that it is pretty messed up?? i mean i guess i am aware of the incentives but not really...i mean it is encouraging people not to vote!...and i think this outweighs the incentives...or maybe i am not so aware of the incentives...so what exactly is so great about the electoral college?

Answer 1

The electoral college helps the states retain some sovreignty and relevance. If you ditched the electoral college for a popular voting mechanism, then basically all of the politicians would never campaign outside the inner cities, because that's where the highest concentrations of votes would be.

The nation would be dominated by the major metropolitan areas, and essentially be the United States of New York, Los Angeles, Houston, and Chicago (and maybe a few others).

And rural America would be miserable, maybe enough to split off and reform their own government.

Answer 2

The Electoral college would desire to be eradicated...sure, the classic vote would desire to choose on the President...If it have been that way, Al Gore could have been President in 2000...and Bush never could have been... And the Electoral college is the top clarification why some human beings do not even vote...They sense their vote would not even count quantity using fact in the tip, the Electoral votes be sure the President, so as that they think of WHY complication vote casting... Votes in Rhode Island would desire to count quantity basically as much as they do in California or Texas...a million guy or lady, a million vote...yet using Electoral college, they don't...

Answer 3

I support the electoral college for a host of reasons.

So long as the vote is regulated by the states the elimination of the electoral college is completely unacceptable. California for example has a massive voter fraud problem and they are doing little to nothing to eliminate it (in fact seem to be encouraging it). If the states votes were not electorally based that would mean that the rest of the nations votes are intermingled with such fraudulent votes. This is unacceptable.

In the end the Electoral College is in the Constitution of the United States, and the states are not going to eliminate it through amendment so it is here to stay regardless of what you or I want. The candidates and political parties better get with that program in terms of strategy or they risk losing yet another election.

Answer 4

The electoral college goes back to the beginning of the United States of America. That is when the STATES were trying to install a central government to govern them. The delegates from each STATE cast vote(s) for president.

When the Constitution was passed it was determined that the STATES would continue to elect the president. Two votes per STATE plus extra votes depending on the states population. (based on the number of representatives in the House of Representatives).

That is the way it still is. The STATES elect the president. when you vote for President you tell your States electoral representatives you want them to vote for. The person who gets the most votes in the STATE gets all that States votes. The person getting the majority of the STATES votes is elected President.

We are the United STATES of America.

Should this be changed is a matter of opinion.

The Constitution could of course be changed calling for direct election of the President by the people but the STATES would loose a certain amount of power.

Answer 5

I think your thinking is "messed up". (No offense, I'll fix that for you)

The electoral college is there for a reason. Haven't you studied that in school? Oh wait, I forgot, they don't teach anything good about America in schools anymore.

Here's why it's there: If we didn't have the electoral college, then the people of Texas, California, Florida, and New York would be winning all of this nation's elections. Smaller states wouldn't have any advantage whatsoever. The states with the bigger populations would win all the presidential elections.
our nation's great voting system.

Good luck! You won't regret it.

Answer 6

The electoral college:
Requires distribution of popular support. - if you follow the red/blue state concept, generally the blue states have more people. The group of states could literally never lose if the popular vote was not distributed.
Isolates election problems.
Encourages stability of a two party system.
Enhances minority status.
There is much more, just enter electoral college in the search area and read

Answer 7

The problem is not with the electoral college as set forth in the constitution. The problem is with how the states implemented the assignment of electors.

If we shifted from an all-or-nothing (by state) allocation to a pro-rata (percentage) allocation by candidate, suddenly the two dominant parties no longer have a lock on the system.

Which is why the two major parties continue to keep their lock by keeping the system as unbalanced as it is.

Answer 8

The electoral college made sense when communication between the western states and the eastern states was limited.

However, in this day and age of technology and split-second communications, it is a completely outdated system and should be abolished.

Answer 9

It allows someone to lose the popular vote and still be installed into the office of the president by the supreme court after shutting down a recount (conveniently in Jeb Bush's state).

Answer 10

Actually the electoral college makes it possible for my vote TO count. It tells me that my vote in Wyoming or Montana counts just as much as the votes out of California and new York. I was like you at one time until I did my homework.