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Will soemone explain the electoral college to me? I dont fully understand why it is there if they work for US? Does the popular vote not count?
The framers set it up because they knew the populous was too stupid to pick their own leaders.
Smart people, those framers.
Will soemone explain the electoral college to me? I dont fully understand why it is there if they work for US? Does the popular vote not count?
The framers set it up because they knew the populous was too stupid to pick their own leaders.
Smart people, those framers.
That would make sense if not for the Fact that the People do decided under the EC. Who wins the EC is determined by the Popular vote in each state.
Will soemone explain the electoral college to me? I dont fully understand why it is there if they work for US? Does the popular vote not count?
Each State has the electoral votes based on 2 senators and x number of Representatives. So there are 538 electoral votes. ( well that may be wrong, in 61 DC got an electoral vote) All but 2 states give all their electoral votes to the Party that takes the state in popular vote. 2 States allocate them by percentage of vote.
To be elected President one must amass 270 electoral votes failing that the New Congress picks who won. The House picks the President, each State group has one vote. The Senate picks the Vice President.
The framers set it up because they knew the populous was too stupid to pick their own leaders.
Smart people, those framers.
That would make sense if not for the Fact that the People do decided under the EC. Who wins the EC is determined by the Popular vote in each state.
Will soemone explain the electoral college to me? I dont fully understand why it is there if they work for US? Does the popular vote not count?
We have the electoral college because we have a federal government, not a national one.
Without the electoral college, heavily urbanized areas would control the election, and small states would always be steamrolled.
The reason the electoral college has grown less popular is precisely because we have moved ever so incrementally toward a national government. This is not a good thing.
Think of the electoral college system as similar to the World Series. A team can theoretically score the most points but still lose the series. This has happened, but rarely. It also happens once in a great while that a candidate wins the popular vote but loses the electoral vote.
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Will soemone explain the electoral college to me? I dont fully understand why it is there if they work for US? Does the popular vote not count?
Will soemone explain the electoral college to me? I dont fully understand why it is there if they work for US? Does the popular vote not count?
It means thankfully, that Chicago, New York and L.A. do not get to pick who becomes the President on their own.
I see. And to think, I was thinking we should get rid of the EC and make every state a battleground.
Will soemone explain the electoral college to me? I dont fully understand why it is there if they work for US? Does the popular vote not count?
We have the electoral college because we have a federal government, not a national one.
Without the electoral college, heavily urbanized areas would control the election, and small states would always be steamrolled.
The reason the electoral college has grown less popular is precisely because we have moved ever so incrementally toward a national government. This is not a good thing.
Think of the electoral college system as similar to the World Series. A team can theoretically score the most points but still lose the series. This has happened, but rarely. It also happens once in a great while that a candidate wins the popular vote but loses the electoral vote.
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Nobody scores points in baseball.
I see. And to think, I was thinking we should get rid of the EC and make every state a battleground.
Will soemone explain the electoral college to me? I dont fully understand why it is there if they work for US? Does the popular vote not count?
It means thankfully, that Chicago, New York and L.A. do not get to pick who becomes the President on their own.
Exactly, and Considering Large Cities are Democrat, you can see why so many Dems don't like the EC.
Now, In the event Romney wins the Popular vote, and Obama the EC, all of the sudden those same Dems will say how great the EC is.
Will soemone explain the electoral college to me? I dont fully understand why it is there if they work for US? Does the popular vote not count?