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Do the events surrounding the election of 2000 justify changes to the electoral college? why or why not? explain in a well-written paragraph with at least three reasons.

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Of course not. Anyone who thinks democracy is poorly served because the guy who won votes more broadly, in more states (Bush) became President over the guy who won a tiny handful more votes, i.e. who had deeper support in fewer places (Gore) doesn't understand the nature of governing a large multicultural country.

The Electoral College ensures that campaigns and Presidents must pay attention to a broad cross-section of voters. You cannot ignore voters in small states because even the smallest state has 3 electoral votes. If we did not have the Electoral College, elections would go like they do in England, where candidates only pay attention to what Londoners want, because they can just mine the massive concentration of votes in the capital and ignore what people in the country think. In the present election, both candidates would spend all their time in the big cities of California, New York, Texas, Florida and the Midwest, and completely ignore everyone else. First class bad idea.

Besides which, the stress of 2000 had little to do with popular vote/EC split. It had more to do with the fact that the Democrats couldn't believe they were losing to Bush, when they had the sophisticated and intelligent Gore as a candidate, and they convinced themselves they really had it won in Florida (which would have made Gore President), and it was only because of vicious racist Republicans disenfranchising minority voters in Miami-Dade that this wasn't apparent. They were wrong about that, as a detailed study commissioned by news organizations later showed -- Bush really did win Florida -- but it was an attractive belief. It was the business of the recount and the "hanging chad" question of which votes (or "votes") would be counted that caused the rancor.

For example, I am 100% sure that if Obama loses the popular vote this year, but wins in the EC, that Democrats will find the Electoral College a fine institution that should be preserved.

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Answer from: emma4113

Yes, in the elections of 2000 there were some changes in the Electoral College as Gore never won in 2000. He has got only 48% of popular vote whereas Clinton has failed majority of votes in 1992.

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The 48% ofpopular vote won by Gore was hardly considered as a victory because he had lost many prominent state which implicitly meant that he was not an efficient candidate to become a president. In fact Clinton too failed majority votes in 1992 but he had won many states and thus his elections were considered appropriate. Electoral College play an important role. The root idea of the electoral college is that presidential candidate should not merely have to get a simple majority in states but he/she should be the representative of plurality of 50 States. Electoral College thus protects many interests, as otherwise majority will win and will then dominate the policy formulation which is not the essence of true United States.

The second reason is that electoral college prevents smaller states from becoming irrelevant. Campaigning of President should be in all 50 States including Ohio.

The third reason is that the smaller states have been given the admittance to the process of democracy. Unknown Dictatorship can even break the country. The major policies relevant to the winning candidates are Labour policies, farmers policies, business policies.

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Grade: High School

Subject: Political Science

Source: Electoral College

Keywords: 48% , vote , won , Gore, 50 States, representative, dominate, policy formulation, admittance, process of democracy.

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