THE FOUNDING FATHER'S OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY WERE WISE BEYOND THERE TIME, THEY KNEW THAT TO BE FAIR FOR ALL THEY CREATED THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
On January 7, 1789, the first presidential election in America was held and George Washington won the election. He was sworn into office on April 30 and would become the first president in American history.
It was also the first election the Electoral College system was used and, since then, it has been used in every American presidential election. As it did then, the system permitted for the president and vice president to be the only elected federal officials chosen by the Electoral College rather than by a direct popular vote.
During a presidential election, the electors from the party that gets the most popular votes are elected in a winner-take-all-system, with the exception of Maine and Nebraska, which allocate electors proportionally. A candidate needs a majority of 270 electoral votes out of a possible 538 to win the presidency.
While writing the Constitution, the Founding Fathers made decisions that would protect the people from not only a potentially tyrannical government but also from themselves. This extra layer in our system would, according to Alexander Hamilton, preserve “the sense of the people,” while ensuring that a president is chosen “by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.” The Founding Fathers knew that if a direct democracy was created, they could not stop factions of people in overly populated areas from taking a mob rule approach to every election. If it were by popular vote, an election would be decided by heavily populated states like California and Texas.
In the 2016 presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump won the electoral vote by 304 to Hillary Clinton’s 227 votes. Since then, Trump-hating Democrats have opposed the system. Last week, Rep. Steve Cohen introduced a bill to eliminate the electoral college, calling it “outdated.”
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Democrats like Rep. Cohen would take a stand against the constitutional electoral system when he and his counterparts did not like the outcome of the last election. Rep. Cohen represents the same party that has created a dangerous mob rule movement creating more harm than good. Alexander Hamilton and the other Framers foresaw such behavior and it’s why they established such a system.
America’s Constitution is anything but “outdated.”
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No, it is not an educational institution, nor is it really difficult to understand.
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One of the biggest myths in American government is that the President and Vice President are directly elected by the people. Nothing could be further from the truth. Get it out of your head now. In fact, the Constitution mentions nothing of such a popular vote. Instead, the President and Vice President are INDIRECTLY elected by the people, and for good reason. Allow me to explain...
The vote for President and VP is actually a vote for the electors of the state who will later cast the true votes. This is usually done in accordance with the wishes of the voters of each state. However, each state has its own set of rules for selecting electors and how they will vote. Their only restraint, from a federal perspective, is they can only appoint as many electors as there are members of Congress representing their state. For example, Florida has two U.S. Senators and 27 members of the House of Representatives, for a total of 29 electors, none of which may be members of Congress. Since each state uses a “winner-take-all” approach, most electors are members of the winning party.
The “Electoral College” is not an educational institution, but all of the electors of all of the states in the union along with the District of Columbia, for a total of 538 electors and a minimum of 270 votes to elect a president. After each state ratifies its electoral votes, it is sent to the nation’s capital for counting in a joint session of Congress on January 4th. The official count is later filed in the National Archives.
The big question though is, “Why do we vote this way?” Many people believe a popular vote should suffice. Fortunately, our founding fathers thought otherwise. At the time of the writing of the Constitution, America was primarily a rural country. However, cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, and Charleston, had substantial populations. Conceivably, politicians could have won the popular vote simply by winning these urban areas. This would have meant the interests of the rural areas would have been ignored, or whole states completely. To overcome this problem, the framers of the Constitution devised the Electoral College to maintain parity between all of the states, including both rural and urban areas. In this way, the college protects the rights and interests of all states, not just those with large populations.
To illustrate, in the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore won the large metropolitan states, but George Bush won more of the smaller rural states. Based on the number of electoral votes, Bush won the election by a razor-thin number of votes, six. This meant that the interests of ALL of the states were considered, not just the “swing states.”
Following the 2000 election, then Senator-elect Hillary Clinton, feeling that Al Gore had been cheated of the presidency, called for the elimination of the Electoral College. According to Hillary, “We are a very different country than we were 200 years ago. I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.” (Nov 10, 2000)
Obviously, Mrs. Clinton fails to understand we reside in a democratically elected republic, not a democracy. Admittedly, most Americans misunderstand the concept of the Electoral College, thereby making it fodder for debate. Nevertheless, the electoral college remains a fair and equitable approach for representing the interests of ALL of the states in the nation, not just those with large metropolitan areas. Without the electoral college, the large metropolitan areas would decide the direction of the country, not smaller towns and villages. In other words, cities such as New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles would dictate the interests of the country, and not places like Des Moines, Scranton, Chillicothe, Morgantown, and Macon.
It is not rational to discard or abandon something simply because we do not understand it.
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