Blog Post #5
Electoral College Vs Popular Vote In this blog I will be talking about the sharing my opinion on the electoral college and the popular vote. If you don't know what these two things are, the electoral college is a system based on the population of the state in which is decided how many votes they are allowed. If a candidate is able to receive 270 votes from the Electoral College they are elected president automatically. The popular vote is the people's vote, if you are in favor of a candidate, you will place a vote for that candidate and they will all be counted and the candidate with the most votes wins the popular vote. In my opinion I believe in more of the popular vote because I feel like we are educated enough to make a good decision as a nation. The Electoral College was made for uneducated people in the 1804 when not a lot of people had the privilege of being educated. Times have changed and most people had some sort of education growing up, we can't be living