why should the united states keep the electoral college
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When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they had a difficult time deciding how the president should be selected. They considered several different methods for choosing the president, including selection by Congress or popular vote. In the end, they compromised on the Electoral College. It wasn’t that they believed the Electoral College was an ideal way to select the president, but believed it was the best option they had available. (More information about this choice can be found here: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/19/opinion/the-accidental-electors.html.)
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In one attempt to eliminate the Electoral College, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana offered a constitutional amendment that would allow for the president to be chosen by popular vote, as long as the election winner received at least 40% of the popular vote. This would ensure that the popular vote winner still must have widespread support. This amendment, though, failed to garner enough support to be ratified.
Even though a constitutional amendment eliminating the Electoral College is unlikely to pass, that doesn’t mean that all avenues for potential reform are lost. States are allowed to choose the way that they allocate their Electoral College votes. Although 48 states use the winner-take-all method of allocating electoral votes—whichever candidate gets the largest percentage of votes gets 100% of the Electoral College votes for the state—two states use a different model. Maine and Nebraska each use the Congressional District Allocation (CDA) method to allocate their electoral votes, also known as the Maine-Nebraska plan. In Maine, rather than allocating all 4 electoral votes to the statewide winner, they award one electoral vote for the winner of each congressional district, and then two for the statewide winner. This means Maine could have 4 electoral votes for the same candidate, like in 2012, or 3 and 1 votes, like in 2016 when 3 votes went for Clinton and 1 vote went for Trump. Nebraska follows the same plan.
