The Electoral College

According to Dictionary.com the definition of an electoral college is as follows:

“noun ( often initial capital letters ) a body of electors chosen by the voters in each state to elect the President and vice President of the U.S.”

This is how the U.S. elects its president. This is controversial in many ways and questioned if it is fair or not. When the Electoral College was established in 1787, people were thought to be uneducated about politics, which is very true because they did not have the technology we have today, such as five o’ clock news, internet, or television. Now it is obvious to see that we do have the technology to be educated and make our own choice on who should be president.  The electors chosen are based on population, and I view this as unfair. I see it this way because the states with a bigger population have a tendency to be very liberal and those with a smaller population have a tendency to be very conservative.  The more electoral votes a candidate gets from the states with a bigger population the better. It is also based on a winner take all system. This means that whichever candidate has the majority of the votes, no matter how close it is to a tie, win all the electoral votes for that state.

I see the Electoral College as old and outdated. For the society we live in today, it just doesn’t make any sense to run it using the Electoral College. Now the citizens of America are well educated about politics and should have the right to vote for who they want to be president, rather than electors doing so. The states liberal or conservative would be represented equally as well as the winner take all system would not exist either. America needs to be a true democracy not a representative democracy.

"A president gets better as time goes on."

Obama said earlier this week, “A president gets better as time goes on.” Which may be very true, however we simply do not have time to wait for him to improve his skills and become a better president. I believe we need to start out fresh with someone who is already better at being president then Obama. Obama also claimed during his interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer that he has created 3.7 million jobs in the last 23 months. I find this very difficult to believe being so many are still unemployed. He also added that he created the most jobs since 2005. Yet again I find this hard to believe. It may sound good and seem like the truth; however this is not the case. There are still several people unemployed and on well-fare. There are more people on well-fare now than ever before. If employment has increased so much, shouldn’t well-fare be decreasing? The answer is yes, but this I not what is happening what so ever.

I believe Obama is just trying to look good for the upcoming election, but if we take a look at the last four years, he really has not accomplished anything. This could be because of how balanced our government is with political parties. I believe it is not caused by political parties but by his way of attempting to run this country. Obama also mentioned Mitt Romney’s “rough week” which is ironic since Mitt has the lead on him by six points according to the new WaPo/ABC poll. Obama should not be talking of Mitt’s rough week, after all it has been a rough four years with him as president. Whatever happened to friendly competition?

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Mitt Romney for president, I'm thinking so!

Mitt Romney would be a great president for the United States. We need someone who is concerned with the wellness of the people. Mitt realizes that America must hold its own but also remain allies with the majority of the countries in the world. If elected Mitt hopes to create more treaties and bring back idea of “Mother America”. Mother America simply refers back to the time when all countries could turn to us for help. Yes, it put us in some sticky situations, but it also made us more of a super power and created a world-wide liking of America. Mitt wants to bring this back which I think is an incredible idea and the best for America’s future. Mitt is also against Obamacare. He believes that it should be replaced with market-based reforms which would not only reduce health care cost, but it would empower the states. This would create more of a balance between federal and state power, which is the way it should be.

               Another one of Mitt’s goals is to reduce taxes and create some sort of regulation on spending which would then reduce the money spends on government programs. Right now, in America more people are on well-fare than ever before and it’s simply because it is not regulated. Well fare is supposed to be a temporary assistance, which is only used for a small portion of one’s life. It is not supposed to be this permanent allowance because people don’t want to get a job and work for what they have. Mitt realizes this as well. I do agree with Mitt on this subject. We need to regain our hard working society. Obviously Mitt Romney is the way to go! He has several great ideas and will pursue them to make America the way it used to be, successful and hardworking.

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