The two presidential candidates jockey for the needed 270 electoral votes of the 538 total at stake to clinch the White House. With some states solidly in Republicans' or Democrats' corner, the focus on the electoral map typically narrows to the key battlegrounds -- a collection of states that are likely to tilt the election in one candidate's favor.
"Southerners wouldn't stand for direct popular election of the president because slave states would get no credit for their human chattel," wrote Akhil Amar, a professor of law and political science at Yale University, in his book,"The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era." "We have no uniform national system for appointing Electors, which means the legislatures do not have to consult the public at all,"James W. Ceaser, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., for the National Constitution Center.
The electors are mostly"conduits for the popular vote in their state," with the December meeting largely being a formality, Pildes said. A fierce political campaign ensued with members of the House weighing the lesser of two evils: many Federalists viewed Jefferson as a"principal foe," according to the
If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, or in the case of a tie, in which each candidate gets 269 electoral votes, theto select the next president under the 12th Amendment. The House only votes from among the top three vote getters. If the House remains deadlocked by the inauguration, the vice president-elect will serve as acting president until the House picks a new commander-in-chief.Four years ago, Trump emerged as the winner of the Electoral College, 304-227, despite losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes to Hillary Clinton -- an outcome that has only occurred in five presidential elections: 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016.
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Why do we have this electoral votes And if this wins over people’s votes we all wasted our time and money 😡
Why did we wait another 4 years to be piss off about the electoral college
Very informative. So, if I'm understanding correctly, the National Vote that people are standing in line each day to cast is technically a waste of time?
I'd do away with the entire election system. putting those that are leaders, in leadership roles.
The Electoral College needs to be destroyed, erase, and etc. The people should be the ones to choose not a group in a dark room somewhere.
I. M thinking more opportunities for us at hedge funds n equity firms in this election i like full credit
Biden in a landslide
Really! I don’t need an electoral representative to vote for me!
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Hahaha, new commercial that ran during Fear the Walking Dead tonight
What if Biden wins a state, the some electors in that state deflect and give Trump enough to win?
AbolishTheElectoralCollege
Maga！ I support Trump!
And in the future election will be completely honest. Year 3083 television, and Biden kicks Trump in the balls.. And Trump yells in Biden's ear !
Worst idea our founders ever had.
Amazing that you can write that headline as though this were two rational reasonable candidates with valid opposing views.
Abolish electoral college. One person one vote. 5 states shouldn’t rule the country
My Prediction: Joe: 538 Donald: 0
Well we need to try again There is no way you can win the popular vote by damn near 3 million votes & still lose that is not right imagine if we tried to elect Governors based on some sort of similar in state electoral systems it wouldn't work just like it don't work for the oval
The popular vote elected Hilary and the electoral college did not ..
Electoral college delivers true America. Expect surprise probably December take long to count mail votes
Maybe it's time to put that on a ballot that the nation decides.
Socialist ABC want rewrite the Constitution with their socialist propaganda. Trump2020 Biden lies
Why is it only brought up when Republicans hold the White House?
We are a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. The FOUNDERS put the ELECTORAL COLLEGE in place to protect us from TRYANNY OF THE MAJORITY. NO, NYC & LA shouldn't pick the POTUS. LiberalismIsAMentalDisease
Several proposals to de fund the police too but we wont allow mob rule in america The electoral colloge is here to ptorect minority groups it can never be elmimated....THE END
There are disparities in the amounts of electors per state. Maybe just adjust and put the correct numbers of electors per state. Duh
How do you go to the people your asking to fire with a proposal? They won’t ever accept it
If you complain about California and New York having too much power without the electoral college but not Texas, then just admit you like that it's unfair because it's biased in your favor.
😡 It must be abolished!!!
New York and California should not rule the nation.
Our founding fathers knew what they were doing. I dont need California and New York selecting our president for me.
Biden and Kamala are just using blacks and Latinos! Both have been politicians for a long time, and what have they done so far ?! Anything!!! They just talk and talk !!! Know that blacks and Latinos are not idiots to vote for people who only speak and do nothing!
That’s because we cannot have a true democracy. The masses would vote for those that offer the most benefits and that means the rich would not be in control. Read Noam Chomsky. He has a good take on it.
The electoral college is a joke other countries laugh at us for saying we are democracy but we have presidents like trump and GW Bush that didn’t receive the popular vote. Without the electoral college trump would not be president today only republicans want to keep it.
It's time to abolish it and go with popular vote so 'everyone' has a say, and everyone matters!
The electoral college is yet another 'issue' which needs change, a LONG time ago. Much like terms/appointment for SCOTUS/Governors/Senators, etc. Kinda like 'all men are created equal', while many of the 'original' owned slaves! 230 yrs ago.~We started there, but we are here now.
Maybe Kamala and the blue house and senate will abolish it
All systems was made to deprive African Americans!!!
It’s time to scrap the Electoral College. Popular vote is the only way to attribute true equal value to votes cast. It’s the only way one can truly feel their vote matters.
Thank God! Without it our country implodes within 60 years, maybe 10. It is the fabric of our 'republic'.
1787 and 1788 the constitution and college electoral was made for the racist to manipulated the 13th amendment in the justice system!! Kanye was right!! They first racist judges and lawyers wrote the first laws without the consent of African Americans!!!
Popular vote like every other country. Get rid of the racist electoral college. Stop with the bs excuses. We live in the 21st century. We aren't all farmers or ranchers.
Ditch the electoral college and elect the president by popular vote alone.
That's what I'm talking about.. Keep raising awareness... AbolishTheElectoralCollege
Peter Henderson is Joe Biden sheeeeeee
The Founding Fathers never wanted us to have a true democracy.
Good. There is no valid reason to abolish the Electoral College.
If we do ever do away with this. Can third parties finally have a chance to possibly win or be included?
Abc knows what’s coming 😂
le 'talon d'Achilles ' de la Démocratie Américaine !!!
..... wait until Republicans lose Texas. They'll be begging for it then.
With the electoral college system still in place in the 21st century, this democracy, this republic, this experiment continues to fail. One person, one vote, count the votes, declare a winner. Anything else is archaic political bullshit.
It would be the right thing to do to eliminate the electoral college and give the People the ability to choose who we want in office. We are not that dumb that we have we to have someone else do our voting.
That is because The Founding Fathers knew that All of the country needed a fair say in who is President, Not just high population select cities.
One citizen = one vote is literally the only fair way to elect a President
The state legislatures must decide to reform how their electoral college vote is decided. That is much more possible to change.
Such a failed system, who has seated way too many un-popular voted presidents. Not this time though. Too many Americans have spoken.
Because our particular government isn't 'for the people.' It's for the government. 😑
The electoral college has to go.
Name those that blocked it
if we had a popular vote for president then only CA & NY would choose our president. Our founding fathers knew what they were doing. Leave it as is
Keep trying then.
Get. It. Done.
The electoral college needs to be done away with. It should be the people’s vote that counts and names our President.
This ancient Electoral College BULLSHIT is such a joke! It allows the person with FEWER votes to win?!?! So many votes dont even matter! SMH
gets more radical everyday 😞
What are they waiting for? Do it now.
Once we have the presidency, senate and even more control of the house, the GOP will never be in power again. Good times. Vote
Every single vote in this country outside of president is a majority vote. It makes no sense to retain the electoral college.
Abolish the electoral college and abolish the senate. Both are the antithesis of democracy.
It’s called Federalism. It’s why we’re the “United States” and not “THE State”.
Because we're the United States and it's the States who elect the POTUS.
There is an easy fix for this electoral college all that needs to be done is make the electors for each state vote according to the states boat and split the elect tors of that state proportionate to the popular vote this would fix it
Its time for this to end.
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This is such an obsolete system.
I voted to abolish that BS system which has failed us so badly, too many times.
It’s actually brilliant.
Time to end this.
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