Have you ever wondered how the President is elected?
This is actually a pretty good video.
It is very, very basic - but it gets the point across.
BTW: here is the electoral college by state:
This is actually a pretty good video.
It is very, very basic - but it gets the point across.
BTW: here is the electoral college by state:
2 comments:
I think they left out a pretty major event in the whole electoral of president process.
If i remember correctly our vote doesn't have the weight this video says it does. Our votes tell the senators who to put the electoral votes towards. Now it's probably in the best interest of the senator to choose the president that the state selected, but from what I remember the states decision selected by the people could be overruled if the senator or someone felt that the other president would be better.
I'm not sure it has ever happened, but I remember learning that in school or something.
You are sort of correct - Which is why I stated it as being basic.
The Constitution allows each state legislature to designate a method of choosing electors. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have adopted a winner-take-all popular vote rule where voters choose between statewide slates of electors pledged to vote for a specific presidential and vice presidential candidate. The candidate that wins the most votes in the state wins the support of all of that state’s electors. The two other states, Maine and Nebraska, use a tiered system where a single elector is chosen within each Congressional district and two electors are chosen by statewide popular vote. U.S. presidential elections are effectively an amalgamation of 51 separate and simultaneous elections (50 states plus the District of Columbia), rather than a single national election.
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