The electoral college is an institution that every four years is in charge of electing our President, and Vice President. Going as far back as elementary school, students are brought up on how the electoral college works and why its not just the right, but fair system. From being taught about when the Founding Fathers created the process in seventeen eightyseven, to certain founders such as James Madison arguing that the process would hurt the south thus creating the three fifths compromise. As
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A lot of people are writing now about why Kerry lost. Here I want to examine a more specific question: why were the exit polls so wrong? In Ohio, which Kerry ultimately lost 49-51, exit polls gave him a 52-48 victory. And this wasn't just random error. In every swing state they overestimated the Kerry vote. In Florida, which Bush ultimately won 52-47, exit polls predicted a dead heat. (These are not early numbers. They're from about midnight eastern time, long after polls closed in Ohio and Florida
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lost as well. The Presidential election of 2000 sets itself apart from any other election because of the controversy surrounding the outcome. Even though Al Gore won the election based on popular vote, George Bush came out on top with winning the electoral vote over Gore, 271 to Gore’s 266. Although both sides fought a good fight, only one came out on top, the Bush campaign. Many were left wondering exactly why Vice President Al Gore lost. Research shows that the reasons as to why Vice President Al
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The Electoral College is the long process in which we vote for electors who will then vote for President and Vice President of the United States. Well that was quite broad so let me break it down for you. The Electoral College consist of 538 electors, a majority of these electors (270) are required to elect the President. Each candidate that is running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors who are chosen by the candidates political party. Electors are voters chosen to recognize
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studying states called swing states. It is said that the results of these swing states can determine the outcome of the entire election. The overall geography of the 2012 Election looked like what most expected it to, with Obama winning with 332 of the electoral votes to Romney's 206 (Andrews, Bartz and Tumgoren). In fact, Nate silver, of the New York Times, correctly predicted every single state's winner. Regions that went to Obama include the West Coast, the Northwest, the Northeast, and Megalopolis. While
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ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY Why Grace Poe is the Best 2016 Presidential Candidate Five months after, who do you think will be the next leader of the Pearl of the Orient? Who is in your mind that deserves to have the highest position in our country and has the potential to bring our economy upwards? Who among the 2016 Presidential Candidates will end the widely spread graft and corruption in the Philippine Government? Who would go beyond the limits for the improvement of our countrymen? These are just
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Political parties are in broad strokes the groups used to determine party candidates for each elected office in contest. They are used to bring it's members largely under a uniform umbrella of political ideologies. It's a great travesty in this country we only have two political parties, a system that the founding fathers did not want and were extremely leery of but recognized political parties as a necessary evil. One could argue that the first major political party in this country formed in 1828
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The Electoral College is one of my favorite topics in government. As a kid, I always thought that citizens casted votes for candidates and whichever candidate received the most votes won, kind of like the student body in school. Imagine trying to explain to a bunch of middle schoolers that the 6th grade got 5 electoral votes, the 7th grade got 7 electoral votes and the 8th grade got 9 electoral votes and it was because of each class’s size. I don’t think that would have been received well in the
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The electoral college has served its purpose to help elect the President of the United States for 200 years. All though the electoral college helps the nominees win the popular vote, it does not mean that they will be elected. About 7% of the presidential elections were won by the loser of the popular vote because they won the electoral vote the most recent being the year 2000(Black, Eric). I believe that the electoral college should be used to elect the President because, the candidates Advertise
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I believe that the electoral college is an integral part of the United States election process and that it is the fairest way to determine the victor in the presidential race. I believe the electoral college is integral to the election process because I value the fundamental ideals of American republicanism, especially that all people are equal and the fairness that our system of government has established. Though I believe that the electoral college is a necessary part of the United States’ election
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