As of recently a debate that has existed in American politics for centuries has flared up again. The debate in question is whether we should keep our Electoral College for the purpose of electing our President or abolish it and elect our Presidents through a popular vote. Those who seek to abolish the Electoral College cite instances -recent and past- in which Presidential Candidates have won the popular vote yet lost the majority of the Electoral College. They also argue that the undemocratic philosophy behind the Electoral College, the thought that the American people aren’t competent enough to choose their own Commander in Chief, is an outdated piece of a backwards past that has no place in modern society and law. Those who seek to preserve the Electoral College as it is state that the electoral system the framers of the Constitution created is as good as it can …show more content…
A simple solution would be to assign the majority of Electors to represent each individual congressional districts rather and only two to represent the states. Each districts’ Electoral votes would be cast for whichever candidate wins the majority of votes in said district and the two state votes would go to whoever wins the majority of districts in each states. This way is more democratic because the people would be represented on a smaller level than the states; for example, Republicans in Upstate New York or central California, or Democrats in southwestern Texas, wouldn’t be subject to supporting presidential candidates they voted against. Yet these compromises would not outright destroy the Electoral College, just slightly modify it, satisfying Constitutional