our mistake but when has that ever been the case. The only examples i can give of the Electoral College doing anything is them electing people that the popular vote goes against. The most recent example is the Trump vs Clinton election. Hillary should have won the election based off of popular vote but she didn’t. Somehow trump won the presidency. Now i’m not complaining I wanted trump to win but
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As of 1789, there have been several Presidents who have run and protected the country. Each one of has been appointed to serve the country, but not by the people. Every four years, a new President has to be elected. As a result, there are several presidential campaigns and debates. Millions of Americans go out to cast their votes in hope of choosing the best suite President. Unfortunately, not all the votes have a significant importance and not all the electoral votes are valued the same. Smaller
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My party leader assigned bills seven, thirteen, and seventeen to me. I was required to argue for bill seven which was a bill to allow felons to vote after the completion of their sentence. Many people may have been against this bill because the criminal has shown that they cannot be trusted when they committed the crime in the first place, but I believe that everyone deserves a second chance. I went to procon.org, which has many arguments in favor of and in opposition to this bill. I looked at both
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an issue that has been in the past and is continuing into the present with having the knowledge through technology of who is a qualified wasted vote. Michigan is a textbook example of the efficiency gap and its outcome on a district. In the last election, “Republicans won 57 percent of the House seats, claiming 63 seats to the Democrats' 47. That amounted to an efficiency gap of 10.3 percent in favor of Michigan's Republicans.”4 As technology expands the more big data government has on voters in
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the media has always played an important role in presidential elections. The media has been and is being used as a tool to address issues head on to overcome scandals, to achieve political gains, by using all forms of social media to their advantage to get out their name and change the curve in presidential elections. As mass communication has grown and changed over the last 40 years so has the way it effects the presidential elections. Media was once defined as television, radio and print which
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many Representatives and Senators each state has combined. In each state, probably not even realizing it, citizens chooses who they want to be their electors. Citizens are actually voting for electors instead of the President and Vice President when Election Day comes. After the citizens vote for the electors, the Electoral College then cast their vote. Whichever candidate have majority of the Electoral votes, 270 or more, is officially elected as our President. The Electoral College has the final say
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college and the election go hand in hand. The electoral college is put into place to elect the president and vice president during the election process. There is debate on whether the voting system should change to a popular vote, a first past the post vote or continue with the electoral college process. The electoral college is a barrier to direct democracy.The electoral college delegates are actually the ones who elect the president. When Americans vote in the presidential election, they are in
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when dealing with the issue on gay marriage and it’s beginning to happen again with the abortion issue and immigration as well. The Millennials set the stage for the 2008 election, the young Americans were played a key role for Barack Obama election. Millennials are yet to see the fruit of all of their work. The next several election cycles will show the change in politics as more Millennials run for office.
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MacBride attended Princeton and Harvard University achieving his law degree. His diverse careers include writing history books, co-founder of a successful television series, and failed run for the U.S. Presidency in 1976 under the Libertarian Party. Before 1972, MacBride favored the Republican Party until he exchanged his views for the Libertarians. Even in his mid-twenties, when the author wrote, The American Electoral College his viewpoint skewed towards a conservative/libertarian viewpoint.
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according to their economic status, race, origin, language, and so on. Voting is strictly individual, but voting trends are social. Therefore, the geography of electoral districts can influence the outcome of elections. Who controls how districts will probably check the result of the elections are made. In the United States they have a word for every concept, and modifying the boundaries of an electoral district to favor a particular political party, also has its word, it is called gerrymandering.
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