Electoral College

Electoral College

2018

The Electoral College Gives Trump and the GOP a Boost - The Atlantic (Nov 23 2018) <Click-to-Tweet>

Keywords: bayh ’s, electoral votes, direct popular vote, birch bayh, electoral college, small states, swing states, electoral college conundrum, few votes, larger state, candidate, presidential election, popular vote

Abstract

Politics The Electoral College Conundrum There ’s no consensus on abolishing the Electoral College, which has countered the popular vote in two of the past five presidential elections. Four times in American history, the candidate who lost the popular vote has won the Electoral College. And that is not the case under the Electoral College system. ” Some, like Bayh and his allies, support a direct popular vote. ( The overall statewide winner takes the state ’s two remaining electoral votes when electoral votes are allocated by district. ) Instead, it ’s large swing states that receive both visits and, Are there arguments for the Electoral College?