Should Electoral College Be Abolished
The electoral college should not be abolished. The electoral college is a very important part of the election process. After all, it wasn't established in Article II for no reason. Our very own founding fathers did not like the idea of the general population directly voting for president. They feared that presidents would always come from highly populated states. The electoral college should be kept because it creates a clear winner, the electors make more educated decisions, and the electoral college ensures a two party system. The electoral college should be kept for a variety of reasons. One specific reason is that the electoral college establishes a clear winner in the presidential election. In some popular votes, for example George W. Bush v. Albert Gore in 2000. It was evident that this race would be close from the start, and indeed it was. So close, in fact, that the winner of the popular vote would be decided by just one state, Florida. Bush was originally the winner by a margin of only a few hundred votes, a very small fraction out of millions upon millions of voters. However, there were
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Some may think that a two party system is not fair, but if there were more than two major parties, people would start to get confused about who said what and to whom. And, as we all know, when people have a decision with too many options to choose from, they simply decide to not choose at all resulting in not voting also known as decreased voter turnout, which would not help America's political system. Decreased voter turnout means that not everyone chose to vote even though they could and a higher number of people voted the year before. The electoral college should be kept for the good of our country. The electoral college creates a clear winner after voting, the electors who actually vote for president make more educated decisions, and the electoral college ensures a two party
Some may think that a two party system is not fair, but if there were more than two major parties, people would start to get confused about who said what and to whom. And, as we all know, when people have a decision with too many options to choose from, they simply decide to not choose at all resulting in not voting also known as decreased voter turnout, which would not help America's political system. Decreased voter turnout means that not everyone chose to vote even though they could and a higher number of people voted the year before. The electoral college should be kept for the good of our country. The electoral college creates a clear winner after voting, the electors who actually vote for president make more educated decisions, and the electoral college ensures a two party