Elections, Voting Behavior and the Electoral College !!! Made by: Gloria Saldana Lisa Abreu : ) History 4th pd with Moloney Boloney : D

How do we elect the president, Congress, etc? The Electoral College does ! Each state gets a number of electors equal to the total number of senators and representatives it has. Each political party chooses the people it wants to serve as electors if it wins that state.

Explain the Electoral College. Each state has a certain electoral number. If one state like texas has more Obama votes than McCain, Obama gets all of texas’s votes : D So some people argue with this system because they think its not fair or their vote doesn’t count. But that’s not completely true. These are called Electoral votes. Obama!

Explain, Continued The electoral college is a system set up by the framers of the Constitution in Article 2, Section 1, and then altered by the 12th Amendment.   It assigns a certain number of electoral votes to each state (and Washington, D.C.) for the purpose of determining presidential elections.  The number of assigned electorates equals the number of congressmen where one vote is given for each House member and two votes for two Senators.

What's the deal with Red States and Blue States? Red states and blue states came into use in 2000 to refer to those states of the United States whose residents predominantly vote for the Republican Party or Democratic Party presidential candidates, respectively.

Continued.. Red States! Blue States! Tend to vote for the Democratic Partys Tends to vote for the Republican Party. The Electoral College, with its typical winner-take-all allocation of votes, often turns a small percentage margin of victory into one that appears much larger, thus making the victory seem more conclusive and adding to the winner's perceived legitimacy.

What are the arguments for and against the Electoral College?  the possibility of electing a minority president  (one without the absolute majority of popular votes) Electoral votes = state Popular votes = people  Most Americans believe that the person who receives the most votes should become president.  Direct election is seen as more consistent with democratic principles than is the Electoral College system. 

Most famous elections :O The United States presidential election of 1960: Marked the end of Dwight D. Eisenhower's two terms as President. Eisenhower's Vice President, Richard Nixon, who had transformed his office into a national political base, was the Republican candidate.

What would happen if we abolished the Electoral College? Is 10 million deaths worth a segment of the country retaining domination over the rest? Only time will tell.  I hope and pray that future leaders will foresee the blood-shedding and prevent it before it's too late.       Abolishing the Electoral College or Senate would reduce the government representation of the smallest states to make it illogical to remain in the Union.  This has happened before, in 1860.  I shouldn't need to remind you of the 620,000 deaths over the next five years after that.     Only this time, the two sides are not geographically separated.  Our decades of racial, religious, and political integration in this country will come to haunt us in the future.  It will be then when the nation's integrity and peace are ultimately challenged. 

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