Election day 2016; the current political state is looking grim. More than half of Americans are upset that their majority voice has not been heard. I pondered the idea of the electoral college for quite some time looking into all the facts and reasons our founding fathers included such a system. Coming back from this experience with a changed outlook on this particular topic. I believe that the electoral college is a necessity for our government's framework. The electoral college has a very high success rate. The electoral college has been around since 1787. It was implemented by our founding fathers as a fail safe. Since the time of inception we have had 45 presidential elections. Within those forty-five presidential elections only five instances have occurred in which the president elect did not win both the popular and electoral vote. …show more content…
Without the electoral college 51% of the country could elect whomever they choose with no chance to reverse it. Although an occurrence like this has never happened it still remains a necessary preventative measure. The electoral college gives smaller states a say in the outcome of the presidential election. States with a smaller population now get more of say in which way the election goes. Without the electoral college these smaller states would not be as adequately represented in the election, due to a smaller population leaving a majority of these states potentially without a voice. On the other hand it keeps larger states from potentially ruling an entire election. The electoral college assumes that each state and citizens within that particular state are like minded in the way they want to be governed. That being said, if a large state who all thought the same came together they could potentially elect a president who would have more of their particular state's interests in