- Richard Nixon would have defeated John F. Kennedy in 1960 is it were a direct election with a run-off
- Gore received 51 million votes and Bush received 50.5 million in the 2000 election
- Each state gets 2 Electoral College votes, regardless of the population.
- The Electoral College is undemocratic
- States select their electors by popular vote
- The Electoral College questions the validity of a nationwide popular election
- The Electoral College allows candidates to only campaign in swing states
- There are laws requiring electors to vote for candidate who chose them
- In most states, the Electoral College works on a “winner-take-all” system: the candidate with the most votes in the state gets all of that state’s electoral votes.
- If no candidate receives an absolute majority of electoral votes, the U.S. House of Representatives chooses the president from the top three candidates
Questions:
- Is the Electoral College a fair system?
- Should the U.S. abandon the Electoral College?
- Does the Electoral College eliminate the need for nationwide campaigning?
- How can this system be improved upon?
- Why should a president lose an election, even though more total people voted for him?
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