The Electoral College is a long-time method of electing the President that our Founding Fathers created as a compromise between the wishes of those who wanted a direct popular vote and those who preferred that of Congress. Some put their trust into the government and others put theirs into their fellow citizens. As a result of this old-time dispute, the Electoral College was made. However, as time has shown and is bound to show in the future, the Electoral College is an outdated method of choosing the President because it allows electors to betray candidates, it is undemocratic in that the US people are not directly voting for the President, and it is unfair to states that are not considered ‘swing’ states. To begin, the 538 electors that …show more content…
An article by Bradford Plumer exemplifies this by showing who all wants to abolish the Electoral College. He says, “What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Doyle, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO. . . agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college. . . over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now” (The Indefensible Electoral College). An electoral tie is much more than just possible after “In the 2000 U.S. presidential race, Al Gore received more individual votes than George George W. Bush nationwide, but Bush won the election, receiving 271 electoral votes to Gore’s 266” (The Indefensible Electoral College). The idea of having an even number of total electors introduces the possibility of a tie, which would result in the election going to the House of Representatives, which does everything but express the will of the people given that most people vote one party for President and another for Congress. And, because each state only has 1 vote, the population of the states no longer matter (The Indefensible Electoral College). Enough people agree with the idea that the uneducated and inexperienced decision the Founding Fathers made creating the Electoral College is simply out of