The Electoral College

No. I think that it is a system that has worked okay so far but that it definately has flaws in it. In the 2000 elections George W. Bush and Al Gore were running for president. When the votes were officially counted, it showed that Bush won with a total of 271 electoral votes and Gore had 266. When you really count each vote and make the elections nation wide Gore won the popular vote. As we all know the popular vote is not the one that wins you the election, it's the electoral vote that does. I think we should change that and make it nation wide.
More people wanted Gore to be president but the elctoral college says that Bush won. I think this is one of the biggest flaws about this system. The fact that you can lose even though you won the popular vote. I guess the founding fathers didn't think of how many people might be living in their country many years later and it would have probably worked well withput this many people.
The good side I see about the electoral college is that the voting is done state wide so the candidates really have to focus on certain states and their needs becuase they have the most populationa and therefore the most electoral votes. This prevents it from making two states with totally different populations equal as we say.
If there ws anything I could change to make it seem better for me it would be that I would make the number of electoral votes that you need higher. I would make it a super majority of 300 or 350 because we are talking about electing the president, the man or woman that will lead our country for the next 4 years, it is a big decision and even though I personally don't like the electoral college way of choosing the president it will have to do and we have to make the most of it.