The Pros And Cons Of The Electoral College

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Anthony Terribile English 105 4/20/18 A democracy is a form of government where the people elect their leader In America we have a government that is famous for its checks and balances For any decision we make as a nation it must go through Layer and layer of bureaucracy . It is only fitting that to be elected our president the highest public office one can be in our great nation that they must also go through checks and balances. The checks and balance in this case is the electoral college. The electoral college is a group of people selected from each state to. vote for president based on the popular vote of their state.The electoral college is a system that definitely needs reform but is a central part of our government. In the electoral college there can anywhere from 3 to 54 electors per state based on The State’s population. The District …show more content…

Another pro to the electoral college system is it helps keep a two party system in this country. If it were an election based on popular vote some say it would be chaos because of how many people would be running for president. The electoral college lets the winning candidate get the majority of the vote In the 1992 polls, Bill Clinton only got 42 percent of the vote, but with Ross Perot’s influence, he won the majority of the electoral college.Ross perot was famous for splitting the republican vote in this election he was a billionaire that ran as a independent. This is one of the reasons George Bush sir didn't have a chance in this election. When trump first announced his run the republican party was scared of this happening again if he lost the