Electoral College Be Abolished Dbq

The Electoral College system should be abolished. It has been proven to be obsolete for many reasons. For example, a person could say that it presents a poor representation of the people of America. The Electoral College system also makes it so that candidates focus more on the “swing states” rather than all of the states. Additionally, the Electoral College system provides an unfair advantage to a winner-take-all system in 48 states. As shown in the Huffington Post article, we can find that in some states, some people have more representation than others. Specifically, the people in Wyoming have more representation than the people in Texas. Since Wyoming has 3 electors and an approximate population of 530,000 people, each elector has a representation around 170,000 people. Meanwhile, the people in Texas have a population around 25 million people with 33 electoral votes. This gives each elector representation of nearly 715,000 people. By knowing this, you would find that a person in Wyoming would have nearly four times the representation of a person in Texas. This can be proven again using the chart from Document D.

This may have worked at the beginning when it was first created but, it hasn’t worked very well recently. Using the data from the past few presidential elections, we can find about the candidates’ visits to states. It has been shown that the presidential candidates haven’t paid attention to those smaller states 2-3 months before the election. Instead of paying attention to those small states, they typically pay attention to the swing states. This means that one of the reasons that the Electoral College was created for has been invalidated. If these smaller states get virtually ignored during the late part of the election process, is it even fair for these smaller