How is the President of the United States elected?

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How is the President of the United States elected? Do you know? How is the President of the United States elected?

ELECTORAL COLLEGE LEQ: Why did the Founding Fathers establish the Electoral College as a means for electing the President?

Bush v Gore: The 2000 Election http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-election-results-studies/index.html

When you vote for the President you are actually voting for an ELECTOR to vote for you. Each state has a determined number of electors.

A state’s number of electors is the total number of Senators and Representatives in the House. MISSOURI 2 senators 9 representatives Total 11 electors

Electoral Votes by State

There are a total of 538 electoral votes. (The District of Columbia is not a state but is given 3 electoral votes.)

48 out of the 50 states have a “winner takes all” method. If you get the most votes in that state you get ALL of their electoral college votes.

2 states are different and can divide up their votes based on congressional district - Nebraska and Maine.

A candidate must have 270 electoral votes to win the Presidential election.

If no single candidate gets the required 270 electoral votes then the House of Representatives votes to decide the President.

It is possible to get more votes overall in the election from the entire country and NOT be elected President. Happened in 2000 with Gore vs Bush.

Total Votes in 2000 Election: Bush 50,461,092 total votes (47.9%) 271 Electoral Votes Gore 50,994,086 total votes (48.4%) 266 Electoral Votes Nader 2,882,728 total votes (2.7%) 0 Electoral College Votes

2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

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The Electoral College “In Plain English”

Electoral College Reading You will read the Electoral College Handout with your elbow partner and “take notes” (underlined portion) in your Frayer Model as you go.

Ted-Ed “Does your vote count?”