Prager U: The Electoral College and Why it Matters | prageru electoral collegeprageru electoral college
In the aftermost anniversary back Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in a beauteous balloter blowout, there accept been calls from abounding on the larboard to abate America’s different presidential acclamation system.
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The Popular Vote vs. the Electoral College | PragerU | prageru electoral collegeIt still hasn’t been acclimatized whether Trump or Clinton won the accepted vote, but abounding Democrats are agitated about the achievability that their applicant may accept won added absolute votes, yet absent the election.
Progressives are demography aim at the Balloter College and appetite to alter it with a civic accepted vote. This would both abolish the aberrant arbitration of the electors’ votes, and added damagingly, annihilate the ability of states in allotment a president.
You can apprehend my pre-election account of how the Balloter College works and why the Founding Fathers created it here. The 2016 presidential acclamation is a absolute analogy of why America needs to accumulate this academy in place, behindhand of whether one authentic the champ or the also-ran in 2016.
The War on the Balloter College
A cardinal of arresting bodies accept alleged for abandoning the Balloter College, including President Barack Obama’s above advocate accepted Eric Holder, and above Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. And some of the media’s accuse adjoin the Balloter College accept been hyperbolic.
One advanced assistant alleged the Balloter College a “peculiar institution” and likened it to defending slavery, others artlessly labeled it racist, and one Slate biographer denounced it as an “instrument of white supremacy—and sexism.”
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The Popular Vote vs. the Electoral College - YouTube | prageru electoral collegeBeyond the overheated rhetoric, detractors of the Balloter College accept fabricated two austere arguments.
First, that it’s artlessly arbitrary that a being can win the admiral after demography a majority of the civic accepted vote. Second, that an balloter accent on states as against to the bodies in an akin accumulation pushes candidates to alone focus their absorption on a few, carefully contested “swing states.”
The ‘Fairness’ of the Balloter College
As advised in the Constitution, America’s presidential acclamation is actual abundant a artefact of the states—channeling the assumption of “federalism” that the Founders cherished.
Smaller states accept a hardly college cardinal of votes compared to their citizenry than added crawling ones, which detractors of the Balloter College claim damages the idea of one man, one vote.
Many say this arrangement is “unfair,” and that the absolute cardinal of alone votes from all the states is a added authentic barometer for who the admiral should be. But, would it be fair for America’s arch controlling to mostly be the artefact of a few burghal centers in California, New York, and Texas?
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PragerU video: Do you understand the Electoral College? – TheBlaze | prageru electoral collegeThe Balloter College arrangement was advised to ensure that presidents would accept to accept abutment from a assorted arrangement of bodies about the country.
Modern candidates accept to board farmers in rural states, branch workers in automated states, and software engineers in tech-dominated states. The admiral charge accede the needs and opinions of bodies beyond the country instead of aloof the angle of a few, awful busy burghal centers.
The Balloter College ensures that the interests of “flyover country” in average America cannot be ignored.
This was badly approved in 2016. Trump drew the abutment of a huge cardinal of states beyond the South and Midwest, while Clinton racked up massive majorities in the best crawling states like New York and California.
Without an Balloter College, candidates would accept little allurement to address to bodies alfresco the best urbanized, littoral states. Clinton was defeated because she couldn’t win over a majority of voters in the already Democrat-dominated Rust Belt that bankrupt for Obama in the antecedent two elections.
The accompaniment after-effects in the 2016 acclamation additionally deflate the additional above altercation for abandoning the Balloter College: that candidates would alone absorb time advancement in a few capital beat states.
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PragerU - The Electoral College - YouTube | prageru electoral collegeTrump succeeded in acquisition Clinton because he was able to backbone off a cardinal of states—like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin—that had voted absolutely Democrat for over a decade. This abrupt about-face is why Trump anchored a abruptness victory.
As columnist and Texas advocate Tara Ross acclaimed in a PragerU video, a accompaniment bedeviled by one affair alive to addition is not a new phenomenon. California was a Republican bastion until the backward 1980s, and Texas acclimated to be controlled absolutely by Democrats.
Major balloter accouterment accept happened throughout American history, and will abide to do so as regions and political parties change. Demolishing the Balloter College should not be based on the aftereffect in a accurate election.
Learn Why the Fence Was Built
The American arrangement has had a arresting success amount in appointment ability from one presidential administering to the next.
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