Electoral College Argument Analysis

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Within our founding documents we found a template for our government and in the same documents, we found the template for how we are going to elect our president. The electoral college has been around since the inception of our country but has come under fire because people believe it is undermining American democracy. This happened in the presidential election in 2000 between George Bush and Al Gore, when Bush won the electoral college but not the popular vote. It all came down to Florida and the recount efforts by the Democrats made it a legal case, Bush v. Gore and it even went to the US Supreme Court. Ultimately the court decided that there would be no recount and upheld the Florida Supreme Court decision. After Bush’s win, the conversation died down until now. …show more content…

President-elect Trump won the electoral college but lost the popular vote, this ignited a firestorm of protests, some peaceful some not so peaceful. We even had one on our campus where students decided that it would be a good idea to pull fire alarms to force students outside, some students decided to block the freeway. Almost all the polls had Trump losing, people were certain Hillary was going to continue to break the glass ceiling, but she didn't, she lost, and that shocked people across the country. The same thing is happening now, Green Party candidate Jill Stein is asking for a recount in many of the rust belt states. Trump won these states, even though Obama had too, and these votes count in order to win. I expect that the conversation will die down after Trump is officially sworn in and this will all happen again in another election. I feel that this year people just want to get rid of the electoral college because their candidate didn't win, but there are some valid criticisms of the Electoral

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