The Electoral College is an effective system for voting
If you are running for President of the United States, you are not only running against the other political party, but you are facing a system called the Electoral College.
The Electoral College is the deciding factor in every presidential election, and in order to win, you must have at least 270 delegates.
This makes it very challenging to win the election due to overwhelmingly large states such as California, which has number of 55 votes, being a very influential state in the election.
A state’s number of electoral votes is determined by the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators. Smaller states such as Delaware do not have as many votes as a larger, more populated state.
Some states are naturally going to lean either republican or democrat, which means candidates must spend ample time at “battleground states” in order to try and win them over their opponent.
The electoral system has been used since the beginning of electing presidents in the United State and has decided many elections throughout history.
In some cases, people are not always pleased with the electoral system, and in only five elections in history, the losing candidate actually won the popular vote, but ended up losing the electoral vote.
This has led to distrust in the system over time and many people want the system to be abolished.
But after the 2016 Presidential Election, I have a large amount of faith in the system. In my opinion, the system is a fair and accurate way of electing our president.
And in conclusion, I hope that the system will be used in future elections for many years to come, and I wish future candidates the best of luck in their campaign.
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