Electoral College

Hi,

welcome to my presentation on why we should keep the Electoral Colleges will be

about the essay that I wrote for assignment number four in study dot com english

composition.

Now I have on screen the MLA format sources used in my paper.

But today we're gonna go over the reasons

for why we should keep the Electoral College.

Now,

the the Electoral College is important for many reasons.

Some are listed along the side that will go and do further later.

But

from the main part, this picture shows

the Electoral College votes for each state.

And now

with each state, it differs on the amount of votes based on the population,

which is a huge,

hugely important part

of the Electoral College and why

it was used to begin with and why it should continue to be used

for our national voting.

Now, firstly, big cities and Federalism.

Now, big cities are important because at three cities of new york Chicago

in L. A.

Have over 13 million people

just in those three cities.

Now,

if they were to all vote for one candidate. And now

big cities don't typically all vote

the same,

granted many will vote in a certain

for a certain party here or there.

But if they are to all vote for one candidate that puts that candidate

further in front, then

they like their opponent would ever really be able to catch up to

no that just controls

the election. If we were to not have the Electoral College,

that would most likely be like a more pure democracy.

If that was the case.

Now

these so called flyover states, which is basically the midwest,

they typically don't have the population even in their main cities and capitals,

they don't have the amount of population that some of

the bigger cities do now with the electoral College.

They are still guaranteed at least three electoral votes

per state regardless of their population.

Now,

it's important because they're called the flyover states

because they're supposed to be not that important,

but that's just not the case.

These these states still matter.

They're still american citizens and they have the same amount of say

with the Electoral college as anyone from a big city. Would

Federalism goes into the uh state versus national government debate.

Now, at the bottom, it shows the pictures of, you know,

the powers of each and what is shared now in the constitution itself,

it is stated that whatever

powers are not given to the federal government

will go to the state.

And that's important because when we talk about State representatives,

the voting system for that is the fact that we go from a basically a popular

vote for your state Representatives who then in

the national election will vote for you there,

your representatives as a

is stated.

Now, it's important to pick somebody that

actually

will vote

and

help out the president that you want to be elected

in the best way possible.

Now we'll go into the republic slash history section.

Now, as we know, the U. S.

Is nationally a constitutional republic,

which basically means that the constitution is the law of the land.

Now that's important because it is

specifically stated what the government is allowed

to do and what it is not allowed to do in a way.

Because whatever isn't in the constitution should not be done by the government.

Now, like I said, it is

the law of the land and that is what the Supreme Court is

there to uphold because the constitution is above anyone in the government.

now. five times in history

of our whole nation

have we had

a president that was

that had won the Electoral College

but had not won

the popular vote. That's five times in history.

Three of which happened in the 18 hundreds.

Two of those of course came in, you know,

after 2000 with Bush winning and then trump winning.

Now I don't see that as reason enough to

repeal

a voting system

where,

you know, through all these elections,

it's only happened five times where the popular vote doesn't actually win.

Now there are ways around that of the fact

that if the candidates don't get enough votes,

you know, if let's say a third candidate steals a couple of states,

which typically doesn't happen nowadays.

But if let's say no one is able to get

the majority of votes in the Electoral College and win

the House of Representatives decides the president and

the Senate will decide on the vice president.

Now this is important because

in a couple in one of the times in history

where the Electoral College wasn't able to vote in somebody,

it had to go to this voting system to get us our president and vice president.

Now that happened a long time ago, but it is important that that president was set up.

So that way for the future, we will always have that as a fallback.

Now, as I said, we're gonna go to learning slash other ideas.

Now, these other ideas are really other options that people have brought up.

And that's really just typically pure democracy

in general.

And that's just basically the popular vote wins out.

And like I said, I mean with only five times having happened,

it doesn't make too much sense for

the Electoral College to be repealed and replaced by this now, learning wise,

I believe that students,

especially high school should be learning what the voting system is

truly and why it is important to vote because as I,

as I have written down,

there is not much participation by the youngest demographic.

So you'd be looking more 18 to 25 year olds and there just isn't the amount

or percentage I should say voting

in these national elections. Like how some of the older generations are.

It's pretty important when you think about, you know, especially younger people,

I mean, it's basically, you know,

more important long term that they begin voting now and understand why

the Electoral College is in place and the importance of that.

Now, I I did allude to this earlier.

The two party system was not really supposed to happen.

And there are multiple quotes by George Washington and thomas jefferson

and other founding fathers of why the two party system would fail

the U. S. And it away has because there is so much put into just two parties

that the that the supporters of either side

follow them as they would maybe a sports team.

And even though one may have certain problems,

Their supporters tend to overlook those problems because

that is the side that they believe.

And that seems to be why this electoral college does get a little hate to it,

especially recently with the 2016 election, which really brought it into,

you know, a national focus for a couple of years.

Well, typically the Electoral College has been

working just fine, like I said only five times in history.

So it doesn't make much sense to

change

how we are voting in these national elections. But I will stress the importance

of voting for your state representatives as I

alluded to earlier because it it is vital

for people to elect their state representatives,

who then have more of a say on their daily life

then

these you know, people going to Washington, you know, the President,

the Vice President and people of that kind of power.

So I want to say thank you for listening

and have a good day.

Electoral College

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