I believe that the Electoral College is a staple of the presidential election that should never be challenged or changed by the government to protect America’s democracy.
Many citizens in the country have begun to take an interest in the ongoing debate that focuses on the best voting format in the presidential election.
The two routes include the continuation of the Electoral College and the use of the popular vote to decide the president. The popular vote as of now is nothing more than a statistic used for the presidential elections, but it has become a tool to discredit the past presidents who have won the Electoral College. The Electoral College is an accurate representation of the government’s attempts to make sure the country is ruled by many voices. This may seem contradictory, yet the popular vote would destroy the modern field of politics in the country along with the freedoms of everyone in the country. If the country moved to the popular vote, the presidential campaign route would be virtually destroyed.
The candidates would stop caring about the states and care more about the cities of America that are densely populated. Such cities would include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia, which have over 1.5 million citizens. These large cities would begin to have a monopoly on the presidential election that would cripple the environment of the country’s democracy. The candidates would seek the votes of the few cities rather than the many states found within the nation that have different views and policies in place that affect their populaces.
When the founders came together to establish their government, the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan laid out this problem of accurate representation in the country. As the great compromise was agreed upon by the founders to combine both ideas in the government with the House and Senate, they also signed a mutual agreement that the election of the president would reflect this idea.
The Democrat party is one of the biggest advocates of the popular vote system with evidence that shows us that more urban populaces lean more democratic in political beliefs. This push to a popular vote by the democratic party would be nothing more than an attempt to monopolize their grip on the government in attempts to dominate politics with a one-party system.
As Thomas Jefferson said, “Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%.”
