The Electoral College
Watching this year's election got me thinking about the way the Presidential election is run. I asked myself one question--why do we have the electoral college? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was instituted to give some of the power to each individual state, so the federal government didn't hold all of the power. But in my opinion, the system is outdated. In these days, your state of residence can be anywhere you want because it is so easy to move around the country. Considering all this, there is one observation I had--A McCain vote in let's say Minnesota or California means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. Why isn't a popular vote used for the election? Am I being ignorant and missing something here? I will come out and say I know next to nothing about the political process, so if someone more learned than me can give me an explanation I'd be glad to acknolwedge them.
-Tyler
posted by Tyler @ 7:40 PM
3 Comments:
I agree, in this day and age the power of the single state is worthless. The system is outdated, the popular vote is what should decide who's president and who is not. This year's race looks like a blowout but really McCain only lost by a few percent in the popular vote. I don't see what the difference is really, the only thing I do see is a chance for a president with the popular vote to lose due to the electoral college.
Conceptually, I think it was effective and fulfilled it's original purpose, but now it is outdated and because the vast majority of American's have access to mass media, it's a bit outdated.
The positve side though is cannidates visiting places that normally they would never go to. It helps the smaller states.
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