1. Electoral College

2. Qualifications of President Natural born citizen 35 years-old Resident of US for 14 years

3. Running for President $$$ at least $100,000,000 Beliefs: Moderate Characteristics ▫W▫White ▫M▫Married ▫P▫Protestant ▫S▫Successful

4. Electoral College Each state selects electors ▫At party conventions Popular vote ▫Winner takes all ▫Utah – 6 electors (Senators + Representatives) ▫If R’s win popular vote in Utah, they get all 6 electoral votes Electors meet Mon. following 2 nd Wed. in Dec.

5. Electoral Trends http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html

6. Popular vs Electoral Vote Candidate may win popular vote and lose electoral vote. (2000) http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html

7. Tie House of Representatives decides ▫Each state gets one vote ▫If state delegation doesn’t agree, lose vote ▫26 votes to win (1800) http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html Aaron BurrThomas Jefferson

8. No one has Majority House of Representatives selects John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html 1824 – Corrupt Bargain

9. Why Electoral College? Advantage to smaller states PopulationElectoral votes Residents per elector Weight of vote California33,871,648 54627,2530.83 North Carolina8,049,313 14574,9510.91 Alaska626,932 3208,9772.50 United States281,421,906 538523,0891.00 Utah2,246,553 5523,0891.18

10. Options Electoral votes according to Congressional Districts Electoral votes according to percentage of popular vote Direct election – no electoral college http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/video/2009/01/20/VI20090 12001475.html?sid=ST2009012002359