The problem that I would most like to resolve is the Electoral College. The Electoral College is one of the least democratic aspects of our country. It allows a person to obtain the most powerful office on earth with very little regard to the popular vote. Because North Carolina is a swing state, if 50.01% of people vote for one candidate, then all of the electoral votes go to that candidate. This leads to candidates not focusing on people’s votes, but on states where the party divisions are nearly equal. This is important to me because I live in a swing state, so I see all of the attention that our state receives from presidential candidates. This incredible bias from presidential candidates toward swing states is the result of a bygone era. From 1770’s to the 1850’s, the most effective way of transferring information across the United States was by horseback which made it impractical to count the popular vote. With this in mind, the founding fathers created a system where the popular vote would be counted at the state level and then some representatives would go by horseback to carry this information to the capitol. While this system of transferring information may have made sense in the 16th century, we now have the …show more content…
This is why I try to tell whoever I can about the Electoral College’s faults and what could replace it. Once the issues with the Electoral College are important to the populace they will elect representatives that share these ideas. These representatives will be pragmatic and most likely will begin at the state level, giving candidates an approximately equal percentage of electoral votes from the popular vote, i.e. if a candidate receives 50% of the popular vote, he or she will receive as close to 50% of the electoral votes. Once several states adopt this, others would fall in line