Persuasive Essay On The Electoral College

As a member of Generation Z, I have been alive to bear witness to five Presidential elections. My first recollection in regards to politics was a discussion between my family members on Thanksgiving about George W. Bush losing the popular vote to Al Gore in the election of 2000. Both of my parents were and still are staunch Republicans, while their parents were staunch Democrats. To my limited knowledge, I understood that Mr. Bush was not going to win the election because not enough people voted for him. Eventually in February, I found out that George W. would, indeed, become our next President. Ever inquisitive, I asked my parents how this could be. They explained that while the American public casts their vote in November, the actual electoral process does not occur

To understand the election process, it is necessary to grasp the importance of The Electoral College. According to Huffington Post, “The Electoral College is made up of 538 electors who cast votes to decide the President and Vice-President of the United States. When voters go to the polls…they will be choosing which candidate receives their state’s electors.” [Huffington Post 2012] The electors are made up of 435 members of the House of Representatives, 100 Senators, and three electors for the District of Columbia. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the election. Thus, each state’s voting public will decide on Tuesday, November 8th for whom the Electoral College will cast their votes on something in December. In an article in RealClearPolitics.com, the claim is that the states of Illinois, Washington, Rhode Island, Maine, Delaware, and are solid Clinton states; while Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Alaska, Nebraska and Kansas will most likely vote for Donald Trump. Of the remaining state electorates, which include Texas’s 38 votes, 80 lean to Trump while 101 lean to