The Electoral College

Our government has used the Electoral College system since the Constitutional Convention voted it in the late 1700s. The Electoral College system is when each state has an amount of electors based on their counties and population. There are 538 electors and a candidate needs 270 of the electors’ votes to win. On election day, voters are actually voting for electors who are pledged to support a certain elector. Sometimes, the electors’ vote differs from the populations’ vote. This has happened before, in the election of 2000. George W. Bush won the 2000 election with 50,460,110 population votes and 271 electoral votes. Al Gore had 51,003,926 population votes and 266 electoral votes. Al Gore had about 400,000 more vote from the population than Bush and lost.
    I believe that the Electoral College system is the best system for electing a president. I am going against the population vote because there are some problems with it. Sure, the people get to vote for who they want. But what if some famous actor who doesn’t know much about politics and government, runs for president. A lot of people might think it would be funny to see a movie star trying to run our country. The electors will pick the candidates with the best capability of running the country.
    The Electoral College system has been working for us for over two hundred years. There has only been a few times where the popular vote was different than the electoral vote. Once in 1876, once in 1888, and once in 2000. The Electoral College system is better than a population vote because it forces candidates to campaign on a state to state basis. Along with the big cities, they will spend time in the smaller states too. Smaller states get a  say in the election. Also, if we relied on the popular vote, than if two candidates were close, they would have to do a full recount. with the Electoral College system, the recount only confides in two or so states. the Electoral College system avoids a recount of the entire nation.
    The Electoral College system is the best way of electing a president. We have been using this system for over 200 years and are going to use it in the future. there are many advantages the Electoral College system that the popular vote doesn’t have. That is why the Electoral College system is the best way for electing a president.