The Pros And Cons Of The Electoral College

It’s Election Season in some obscure year, no different than 4 years ago, or 4 years before that, still Republican v Democrat, maybe a 3rd Party mixed in there somewhere. Where are you right now? Sitting at your desk, or at your desk? Watching TV. Well, whatever it is you're doing, it can’t help but think about the election. Let's think back to 2000, what happened that year? George W. Bush won the election by 5 votes. But what's this: he lost the popular vote by over Five Hundred Thousand votes! Or more drastically in 2016, where Donald J. Trump won the election by 36 electors, yet lost the popular vote by almost Three Million Votes! What’s going on here? Well, it turns out there are faults in the current system, and there have been a lot of

In the election after that threshold is reached, the NPV states that “the winner of the national popular vote becomes president.”[2] But why, exactly, are these systems bad? Well, as mentioned, they have some problems. The Electoral College, for example, has its own problems, because, as mentioned in a Vox article, “Our process for choosing the president, the Electoral College, is probably the strangest and most explicitly anti-democratic feature of the American political system. It was conceived in part as a firewall against majority will in case the mob ever elected someone grotesquely unqualified for the office.”[3]But this is just one of many problems with the Electoral College, which a major problem being the fact of the Electoral College: It’s a winner-take-all system. a “feature that defines the character of American presidential elections.”[4] Another one of these problems involves how some peoples votes are better than others, I found that a YouTuber by the name of CGP Grey put it the best, “If these votes were split evenly across the population, every 574,000 people would be represented by one